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  1. Newsletter 179 -19/10/2018

    Newsletters

    to maintain unity Alexis Tsipras has to guide his government through another storm after the resignation... part in the ballot as things stand. However, even if Kotzias has no intention of leading a newly... political future. By leaving the government now, he has a chance to distance himself from the deal

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  2. Greece's never-ending election campaign
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    Agora

    the prolonged pre-election period Greece has entered is damaging the country. There is nothing wrong... as bribes in connection to a 2003 defence deal. Although he has not yet been convicted, the government has used Papantoniou’s case to bring back into the public debate the “old vs new” divide

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  3. Parties locked in tug of war over troubled universities
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    Society

    Minister Kostas Gavroglou has accused Mitsotakis of being driven by an “extreme neoliberal fixation” whose ultimate aim is to abolish free state education. Mitsotakis has pledged to bring a comprehensive...-reform Pledging to scrap a predecessor’s education policy has become a recurring motif in Greek

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  4. Ball in Greece's court after Skopje completes approval of name deal
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    Foreign PolicyGreek Politics

    the latter will officially announce that it has successfully completed its obligations deriving from... as his government is officially informed by Skopje that it has concluded its domestic process, he... Accession Protocol could last 5-6 days, respectively. It has been suggested that NATO is expecting

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  5. Macedonia name issue: Agreement and disagreement
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    Agora

    aims at resolving this 30-year-old dispute. The whole agreement has been built around the fact... a state that has been recognised as Republic of Macedonia by more than 130 countries agrees to amend..., Greece has agreed – according to Article 11 of the Interim Accord - not to veto the accession

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  6. Newsletter 192 -01/02/2019

    Newsletters

    at. Specifically, the comparison was made with Portugal, which has a yield that is eight times lower...-looking leader, much of his party sees things differently and has not changed much from its old ways..., there has been some speculation that the SYRIZA leader might consider more seriously than before the goal

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  7. SYRIZA and ND battle over centre ground with different methods, aims
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    Democracy has recently courted the political centre by including some moderates on its list of European... politics. In a similar vein, New Democracy has also been trying to highlight over the last few days... parliamentary majority. SYRIZA SYRIZA, on the other hand, has a different approach to appealing

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  8. Questions persist about timing of general elections
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    New Democracy has called on Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to clear up some of the basic parameters... on May 19 or May 26. So far, the government has indicated that the local and European elections will be held on the same date. However, this option has been complicated by the possibility of Tsipras

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  9. Name protests, scandal allegations inflame SYRIZA-ND rivalry
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    has been ordered by a prosecutor. The agency reportedly could not find for what reason the deposits... investigation units was forced to resign from his position. The government has distanced itself from Petsitis... nothing to do with the government, which has denied he worked for the PM’s Office. SYRIZA has also pointed

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  10. In latest election pledge, Tsipras vows to ditch lower tax-free threshold
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    Alexis Tsipras has thrown a new pledge into the pre-election mix by promising not to reduce the tax... be in power when the measure has to be implemented. This could also be seen as a pre-emptive strike against..., such as 2009 and 2014, when a party has lost the EU vote and has then faced national elections a few months

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