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The "King of the North" seeking to heal a fractured kingdom
Agora, and attentive to the emotional texture of working class life. They also mark a contrast with Keir Starmer, who... to mark the 20th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster, when 97 Liverpool football supporters were... constraint However, Burnham’s most controversial recent intervention was his claim that Britain has to “get
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First round of local elections leave Greek politics finely balanced
PoliticsGreek Politicsbe remembered only for unexpected SYRIZA victories proved wide of the mark. The results of the first round... was expected to get around 21 percent of the vote, well short of the 42 percent needed to be elected... was expected to get around 23.5 percent and Sgouros 22, which was well short of the 50 percent needed
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Newsletter 82 - 15/07/2016
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras admitted on Thursday that he does not know if his government will get... suggested the government might consider this a useful move to get PASOK and Potami, which have so far said... the 200-vote mark. The only thing certain at the moment is that this back-and-forth over the law
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Newsletter 189 -11/01/2018
allows him to continue in office even if he does not get 151 out of the 300 votes (he needs a 2/5..., meaning that four could support the government and help Tsipras get closer the 151 votes he is looking.... As the country works to get back on its feet economically, banks are making progress in reducing
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Tsipras seen clinching 151 votes as doubts surface about name deal
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAlexis Tsipras appeared to have secured the 151 votes he needs to get a clear majority... MPs from outside his party. This is the exact amount he needs to reach the 151 mark that he set... motion if Mitsotakis complied. Prespes Agreement Given Tsipras is on course to get the 151 votes he
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Covid rears its head again as ND reaches halfway point in tenure
PoliticsGreek Politics. An interview Mitsotakis gave to Kathimerini to mark the two-year anniversary of his election win... admitted that he cannot force people to get the jab. However, he insisted that “the country... as there was a recent increase in the number of Greeks coming forward to get vaccinated. He also dismissed critics
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Newsletter 306 - 23/07/2021
passing on Thursday legislation that will make it compulsory for frontline health workers to get... to punish the unvaccinated rather than convince them to get the jab. The latest developments have... a day in the coming weeks. In the meantime, the government is trying to get on with other business
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ND's opinion poll decline thrusts PASOK back into spotlight
PoliticsGreek Politicsto offer to get the coalition over the 150-seat mark. In this projection, the radical left party led by Yanis Varoufakis would get just 12 seats. If the Prorata numbers are replicated in a second vote, ND would get 137 seats, SYRIZA 90 and PASOK 33. This appears a sounder basis for Mitsotakis to offer
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The tie that binds
Agorain central Athens seemed a fitting way to mark the imminent conclusion of Greece’s final bailout... to reduce Greece’s debt, and then take it off again (so he could get back to work, the premier said... repayments could be secured. Samaras’s Zappeio speech fell so wide of the mark that he went
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Paris talks mark start of Greece's most crucial troika review
EconomyProgrammeThe first round of the new review of Greece’s Economic Adjustment Program (EAP) is kicking off in Paris today and will last until September 4. The IMF spokesman has recently clarified that the aim of these meetings is to “discuss the way forward on the ...
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