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Tsipras claims he is in no hurry to call elections after bailout exit
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Alexis Tsipras indicated on Friday that he is not considering the possibility of calling snap elections later this year despite persistent speculation about the subject. Tsipras travelled to Thessaloniki to meet local mayor Yiannis Boutar...
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ND wrong-foots SYRIZA with call to lift expat vote restrictions
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe expat vote has become the latest pretext for a flare-up between the New Democracy government and opposition SYRIZA, as a new bill proposes to open up remote voting to the Greek diaspora. On Monday, Interior Minister Makis Voridis tabled a bill in Pa...
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Govt responds to report on deadly incident with tougher policing measures, as critics call for rethink
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe official report into an incident in which police fired shots at a fleeing car, killing one occupant and injuring another following a high-speed chase, has prompted the government to announce a series of tough new policing measures. Following several...
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Opposition sees ND’s call for broader subsidy inquiry as attempt to muddy waters
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government caught its opponents by surprise on Monday when it announced that it will propose a broad parliamentary investigation into the alleged misuse of agricultural subsidies dating back to 1998 – a move that the opposition parties see as an att...
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Mitsotakis renews call for Turkey to scrap "casus belli" - opposition unimpressed
PoliticsGreek PoliticsKyriakos Mitsotakis returned from his appearance at the United Nations General Assembly last week feeling that he had burnished Greece's diplomatic contacts with a range of countries and had stated the country's case clearly vis a vis its ongoing disput...
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Newsletter 149 -2/02/2018
also put the coalition on tenterhooks. SYRIZA’s partner, Independent Greeks (ANEL), is backing... about a possible rift in the coalition after chairing a meeting of the Independent Greeks (ANEL...-ANEL partnership falling apart at this stage. The pull of the completion of the third programme
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Clearer picture ahead of confidence vote but Tsipras not secure yet
PoliticsGreek PoliticsElena Kountoura, an MP with departing coalition partner Independent Greeks (ANEL). Kountoura’s announcement led to ANEL leader and departed defence minister Panos Kammenos ousting her from his party. He took the same action with another ANEL lawmaker, Deputy Agricultural Development Minister Vassilis
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What would Willy do?
AgoraWilly Brandt to see his country from outside. He had deep empathy with the fears about Germany
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ND tries to stay on top of wildfire as court battle looms over Competition Commission
PoliticsGreek Politicsof lacking empathy for the victims. New Democracy is clearly aiming to show voters that it is on top
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New Democracy's 2021 agenda focusses on reforms, social support
PoliticsGreek Politicssuch criticism, and to show that empathy is not a preserve of the left. Vaccine U-turn
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