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Name deal and Beleri case test Greece's relations with North Macedonia, Albania
PoliticsForeign PolicyGerapetritis said yesterday that Greece’s objections to Albania and North Macedonia are not bilateral...Athens is facing a testing period in its bilateral relations with its neighbouring countries North... in my power to right this injustice” and the country’s new President Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova
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SYRIZA and ND shadow box over next presidential election
PoliticsGreek Politicselections. The opposition party’s spokeswoman Maria Spyraki rebuffed on Thursday hints by Prime Minister.... He challenged New Democracy to back Pavlopoulos’s candidacy and eliminate any possibility of snap... academic if the opposition party declared its support for Pavlopoulos’s candidacy. The current president
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Government hopeful of weathering subsidy scandal despite public’s finger of blame
PoliticsGreek Politicsscandal, according to a new opinion poll that will compound New Democracy’s concerns about...-dating New Democracy’s ascent to power in 2019, have not had the desired impact as this figure is much..., this is a 0.6-point decline on the projected result seen in the Opinion Poll’s last survey in May, although
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Famellos presents struggling SYRIZA’s case, pleads for unity among progressives
PoliticsGreek Politicstax-cut package. Famellos also tried to encourage cooperation among Greece’s divided progressive...’s tax cuts as a slick political manoeuvre rather than genuine relief for ordinary Greeks. He argued that the prime minister’s package is designed to shift electoral momentum, while real structural
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Androulakis presents vision for fairer Greece in response to PM’s tax cuts
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAndroulakis opened his Thessaloniki speech by diagnosing Greece’s stagnation as a by-product of six years of clientelism and institutional capture. He framed PASOK’s agenda as a comprehensive reboot... stressed, to prove PASOK’s fiscal discipline and accountability. In public administration, Androulakis
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Amid signs of split over Tempe probe, government plays down EU prosecutor’s remarks
PoliticsGreek PoliticsChief Prosecutor Laura Kovesi during her visit to Athens but Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s... places ministerial indictments at Parliament’s discretion. Kovesi urged lawmakers to amend this provision in the next constitutional review. Sidestepping much of the substance of Kovesi’s, government
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Tsipras's choices are becoming clearer but not any easier
AgoraAlexis Tsipras are becoming clearer. The proposal put to Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos by Greece’s... capitulation in the face of pressure from the country’s creditors is low. The leftists’ fear... measures and blaming the impasse on the lenders, it might push SYRIZA’s ratings up a few percentage
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Newsletter 137 -27/10/2017
prior actions The first round of talks between the Greek government and the country’s lenders... during the week, although one of the trickiest issues, concerning Greece’s fiscal performance next year... was the discussion about whether this year’s primary surplus target of 1.75 percent of GDP will be met
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Pressure from government MPs pushes PM towards resolution with farmers
PoliticsGreek Politicsown ranks as well as escalating protests across the country, the PM’s office looks set to attempt... criticised the government’s strategy towards the protests, arguing that it was turning the farming... “beaten up out there”, while others claimed they were fearful of being “lynched” if they attempted
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Opposition sees ND’s call for broader subsidy inquiry as attempt to muddy waters
PoliticsGreek Politicsto have taken place under New Democracy’s watch. Government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis announced... elements to the government’s position that are contentious. Firstly, it is proposing the formation... up on the investigation carried out by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO), which suggests
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