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Tsipras positions SYRIZA as defender of democratic institutions amid row over police corruption
PoliticsGreek PoliticsSYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras has launched the party’s election campaign with a call for the defence of democratic values against what he describes as an abuse of power by New Democracy. The call comes amid a fresh controversy over policing, following cl...
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Greece targets seat on UN Security Council as North Macedonia row rumbles on
PoliticsForeign PolicyThe United Nations General Assembly is expected to vote on Thursday regarding Greece’s candidacy for a non-permanent seat at the Security Council for the 2025-2026 term. Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis is in New York to promote the country’s bid an...
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Mitsotakis focuses on next steps as Kasselakis becomes embroiled in new internal row
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is aiming to refocus his government’s efforts on delivering promised reforms, while SYRIZA leader Stefanos Kasselakis continues to be plagued by bickering over the presence of controversial MP Pavlos Polakis in the lef...
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Mitsotakis tries to move on from Samaras row but more fallout may follow
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has attempted to draw a line under his spat with former Premier Antonis Samaras, but the matter is likely to run as long as the former New Democracy leader does not make his intentions clear now that he has been ousted...
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Fringe parties gain from Tempe furore as judiciary becomes embroiled in row
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe third opinion poll to be published in two days shows support for New Democracy slipping and an extremely high level of public scepticism in the government’s handling of the Tempe rail crash. Against this backdrop, the war of words between the govern...
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Newsletter 80 - 01/07/2016
months in a row but April was the slowest rate of decline in 2016. Retail volume declined by 1.5... Britannia Greeks are in the strange position of staring at the mess Europe is in Even for close... things, Greeks are in the strange position of staring at the mess Europe is in and, for once, being
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Warning signs for coalition after majority trimmed in multi-bill vote
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe SYRIZA and Independent Greeks (ANEL) parliamentary groups respectively. As we flagged earlier in the day, SYRIZA’s Stathis Panagoulis abstained from the vote and ANEL’s Nikos Nikolopoulos voted... that has been largely alien to him now; that of the enforcer. His coalition partner, ANEL leader Panos
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Coalition crisis on hold as Kammenos eases up
PoliticsGreek Politics. Defence Minister Panos Kammenos, who also leads the junior coalition partner Independent Greeks (ANEL... soften his stance when he denied that he had demanded that Tsipras should dismiss Mouzalas. The ANEL..., for Tsipras to take a decision. His demeanour after the meeting of ANEL's parliamentary group on Thursday
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SYRIZA tests PASOK waters with talk of possible alliance
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreeks (ANEL) have been accompanied by a revival of the effort to explore the idea of Alexis Tsipras’s party working with PASOK in the future. Defence Minister Panos Kammenos, who leads ANEL, intervened... SYRIZA that perhaps the alliance between the leftists and the right-wing nationalists of ANEL has run its
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Tsipras focussed on MoU exit in 2018 but will have to avoid pitfalls
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the junior coalition partner Independent Greeks (ANEL), suggesting that he would not support any... that it will not support any solution that does not have ANEL’s backing and arguing that the government will have... because it has the trust of the SYRIZA and ANEL parliamentary groups,” said New Democracy
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