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Newsletter 14 - 06/02/2015
a flurry of trips abroad by both Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis..., as well as President François Hollande and Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, whom Tsipras met this week... busy agenda this week that involved a series of meetings of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Finance
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Complications over president a taste of things to come for Tsipras?
PoliticsGreek PoliticsTwo seemingly unconnected events became linked on Sunday when Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras decided... to the prime minister’s office to voice his concerns. The decision was subsequently taken to postpone.... Reports suggest that the prime minister has an alternative candidate in mind. The resistance
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Reform proposals to define size of Tsipras's task in keeping party on board
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s effort to keep his party on board with the terms of the agreement.... The most damaging outcome for the prime minister would be for his government to become embroiled.... The prime minister’s office suggested that Glezos had not been properly informed about
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Tsipras identifies first bills, domestic approval assured
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Alexis Tsipras outlined on Friday night the content of the first four draft laws... income pensioners which was not included in the statement made on Friday by the prime minister... residences from foreclosures. The prime minister said that the draft law would protect homes with a value
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Parliament's bailout probe has potential to be politically toxic
PoliticsGreek Politics. This means decisions taken under former prime ministers George Papandreou, Lucas Papademos and Antonis.... They also believe that SYRIZA is trying to give the former conservative prime minister, Costas Karamanlis, a free pass by not including his premiership in the period under investigation. Prime
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Eurogroup build-up dominated by internal friction over way forward
PoliticsGreek Politicsstatement are extremely low. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras chaired a meeting of his cabinet on Sunday... after the prime minister was caught doodling a ballot box on his notepad during a debate in Parliament... the weekend. Deputy Prime Minister Yiannis Dragasakis represented the government at the gathering
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Alexis's choice
Agoraof it is another matter, but the prime minister’s decision to shake up Greece’s negotiating team and to issue... of the more principled or ideologically driven MPs could decide to turn their back on the prime minister... to PASOK or Potami to save his administration), while the second would allow the wounded prime
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SYRIZA strife not a rebellion in the making yet
PoliticsGreek Politics. However, this ferment should not – at this stage - be considered a clear sign that Prime Minister..., that Tsipras, Deputy Prime Minister Yiannis Dragasakis and State Minister Alekos Flambouraris have all... would be a high-risk strategy: It would be a way for the prime minister to outmanouvre his left wing
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Kostas Karamanlis as comeback kid?
AgoraA number of eyebrows were raised last week when an opinion poll suggested that former Prime... by the fact that there is a poll on Samaras’s successor when the ex-prime minister has said that he... Democracy and PASOK, and now by SYRIZA and Independent Greeks. Alexis Tsipras is Greece’s fifth prime
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Newsletter 27 - 22/05/2015
Once again Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras came away this week from a meeting with European Union...-blown rebellion. Tsipras and Deputy Prime Minister Yannis Dragasakis have addressed SYRIZA’s... if the prime minister reaches an agreement with lenders that is considered a betrayal of the party’s
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