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Tsipras and Mitsotakis head in opposite directions over talks with Skopje
PoliticsGreek Politicsin views between SYRIZA and Independent Greeks (ANEL) is one of the areas that Mitsotakis focussed... both indicated a willingness to discuss a solution that would be based on a composite name. It also... with FYROM based on a composite name with a geographical qualifier. Mitsotakis’s speech on Wednesday, though
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Tsipras confirms Parliament will probe contentious Novartis bribery claims
PoliticsGreek Politicspresident Adonis Georgiadis and Bank of Greece governor Yannis Stournaras. The accusations are based... Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis is based in Athens. The incident was condemned by the prime.... The committee will have 21 members (10 SYRIZA, 5 New Democracy, 1 PASOK, 1 Golden Dawn, 1 KKE, 1 ANEL, 1
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Tsipras looks for fresh start as Mitsotakis holds election cards
PoliticsGreek Politicsand will instead call a second vote, where the party that comes first will get up to 50 additional seats based.... The opposition leader said that his target is to form a ruling coalition based on the result of the next vote, based on a simple proportional representation system, negating the need for a second ballot using
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Coalition bolsters unity in face of opposition pressure
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreeks (ANEL) appear to have made the coalition members even more determined to stick together... took their decision after ANEL indicated it would not back two pieces of draft legislation. One... and to avoid fines from Brussels. However, New Democracy and ANEL were among those who expressed concern
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Eurobank records net profits of 85 mln in Q3, updates on NPE reduction targets
EconomyBankingat 23.1 billion. During the conference call, the management disclosed the targets submitted two months... net loans) falling by 30 bps QoQ to 194 bps in Q3. During the conference call, the management guided... percent in Q3 from almost 120 percent in the previous quarter. During the conference call
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Newsletter 195 -22/02/2019
process will take into account income declarations for 2018 or whether the data entry will be based... general secretaries at ministries. Minister’s bank loans trigger fierce clash Call to Bank of Greece... euros he received from Attica Bank, prompting him to call Bank of Greece governor Yannis Stournaras
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Explanations sought as PM backs away from prospect of early elections
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe fallout from Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s insistence this week that he does not have plans to call... on Wednesday and in a radio interview on Thursday, it was thought that he was minded to call elections... and call snap elections, his comments this week, including the suggestion that seeing out the four
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Surveillance hearings in Athens and Brussels highlight contrasting approaches to issue
PoliticsGreek Politicsto call PASOK leader Nikos Androulakis, former EYP head Panagiotis Kontoleon and representatives of two Athens-based companies implicated by investigative reports in the affair, it rejected the request to call the PM’s former general secretary Grigoris Dimitriadis, who acted as the political supervisor
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Mitsotakis backs Ukraine as Athens tries to balance position with Trump administration
PoliticsForeign Policythat “nothing can be decided for Ukraine without Ukraine”. Following his telephone call with Ukraine’s president Volodimir Zelensky on Saturday, Kyriakos Mitsotakis said that he would join today’s leaders’ call... Trump’s call Zelensky a dictator. He said that the US president has a special way to express himself
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Athens waits for dust to settle after Erdogan's victory in Turkish referendum
PoliticsForeign Policyto the streets of major cities on Sunday and Monday to protest against Erdogan and call... Turkey to contribute to a dialogue and cooperation (with Greece) based (on the principle) of mutual... to Erdogan. They argue that Erdogan's victory should be a wake-up call for the EU and Greece
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