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Meimarakis and Mitsotakis make it into run-off vote for New Democracy leadership
PoliticsGreek Politicsactive campaign and the support of many liberals. The open voting process (non-members were allowed... ton Syntakton daily on Friday, for instance, showed SYRIZA’s support plummeting to 20 percent... the party and its grassroots support. Mitsotakis, 47, provides more of a reformist vision
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As Greek leaders mull position on refugee crisis, EC sets out timetable of targets
PoliticsForeign Policystruggling to find places to host them, Athens is hoping that it will receiving concrete support at Monday’s... of applicable existing readmission agreements and with the support of other Member States. The agreed... on the provision of emergency support within the Union. However, the Commission also kept up
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Bailout talks inch forward as Juncker comments complicate matters
PoliticsGreek Politicswere exacerbated by comments from European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker that appeared to support..., although the measures described have no short term support for Greece it has to be done, because I do... support several of the Greek government’s main positions and will be seen in Athens as a significant
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Greek 2015 primary surplus at 0.7 of GDP under programme method as Athens looks for boost
EconomyMacroeconomyincludes the latest round of support for the recapitalisation of the Greek banks – was 6.05 billion euros or 3.4 percent of GDP. According to ELSTAT, support for Greek banks amounted to 7.16 billion... 97.42 billion euros (or 55.34 percent of GDP) including bank support. Expenditure for 2014 stood
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Hopes of swift deal on contingent measures doused by technical, political complications
PoliticsGreek Politicsit has in securing support for such measures in Parliament. There are already concerns about whether the initial austerity package will receive the full support of the 153 coalition MPs. The economic... they will not back the legislation but the lack of support from opposition parties means that things
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Paddling with a wooden spoon
Agorasupport from his MPs for them, Tsipras suggested to Greece’s lenders that he is willing to comply...? For starters, the German elections next year may lead to a substantial shift in support from... that support for Angela Merkel's grand coalition with the SPD has dropped below 50 percent for the first
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Newsletter 79 - 24/06/2016
leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis showed no willingness after his talks with Tsipras on Thursday to support... MPs means that the government would have to rely on support from Golden Dawn or the Communist KKE... has seen voters cross to UKIP, while the SPD in Germany has lost support to the AfD. In the eras
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Coalition goes in search of deciding votes for electoral law, prepares more legislation
PoliticsGreek Politicson Monday that he will support the bill but this does not change the outlook. Democratic Left leader... of electoral system. Even if the government gains the support of Golden Dawn (which has yet... support. As the discussion about the electoral system continues in the next few days, the government
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Electoral law vote brought forward, refugee crisis returns to political agenda
PoliticsForeign Policybe altered in the past days in a bid to secure the support of PASOK and To Potami, no such changes have... to support the bill, which will leave it three short of the supermajority. Prime Minister Alexis... rather than Parliament. However, the prime minister does not appear to have the support of his
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Coalition to focus on constitutional reform after electoral law, as TV tender progresses
PoliticsGreek Politics, the coalition was seen getting 197 votes. Without the support of the extremists, the government...’s absence means that the coalition’s only hope would be to attract the support of PASOK... on trying to embarrass them after the vote for their failure to support the bill, especially given
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