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Greece makes first contact with new Syrian leader as PM chases up missile issue in Paris
PoliticsForeign PolicyGreece has decided to take its first steps towards building close ties with a post-Assad Syria. That was the main aim of the visit made by Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis to Damascus on Sunday, where he met with Syrian Interim President Ahme...
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Mitsotakis makes new bid to break deadlock with farmers as govt ponders relief measures
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s meeting this Monday with protesting farmers is being framed as a decisive moment in a standoff that has stretched for nearly 50 days. Scheduled for 1 p.m. at the Maximos Mansion, the talks bring together representati...
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Karystianou’s party makes political debut as confrontation over scandals continues
PoliticsGreek PoliticsMaria Karystianou’s new political movement was launched in Thessaloniki on Thursday evening in what was far more than a conventional party unveiling. It marked the transformation of a social trauma into a political project, and the shift from collective...
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PM uses island visit to highlight border control as Tsipras makes decentralisation play
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis used a visit to the Aegean island of Leros on Monday to sharpen the binary choice he wants voters to confront at the next election, contrasting the current state of border security and migration management with the rec...
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New Year reshuffle brings more MPs into cabinet, keeps key ministers in post
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe deputy agriculture minister. Interior Minister Takis Thedorikakos has also been left out of the new... Petsas has been appointed Alternate Interior Minister, to be replaced by Christos Tarantilis... to the right” and “a party-political balancing act”. The elevation to the Interior Ministry of Makis Voridis
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University bill threatens PASOK consensus as probes launched into alleged infractions by politicians
PoliticsGreek Politicsinvestigation in the Interior Ministry, which is the suspected source of the data leak, while on Tuesday.... The Interior Ministry has denied that it provides voters’ contact information, while the chief...’s EP elections, but also because the suspicions of a data leak emerged within days of the Interior
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Controversial migration bill divides government factions
PoliticsGreek Politicsmakes it easier for Greece to deport failed asylum seekers and restricts the right to residency... illegally, you only have one option, to return; you are not welcome”. The new legislation makes... 5-year prison sentence or voluntary deportation. The migration minister claimed this makes Greece
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Eurogroup agrees on significant debt relief measures for Greece
EconomyProgrammethat the final disbursement would be 15 billion euros, of which 3.3 billion euros can be used... It is likely that Greece will use the 3.3 billion euros to reduce its exposure to the IMF, which... significantly for the next couple of years. Another possibility is that the 3.3 billion euros is destined
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Approach to protests, policing poses a new quandary for government
PoliticsGreek Politicsportfolio from the Interior Ministry to the Justice Ministry amid concerns that Panousis and Interior Minister Nikos Voutsis did not see eye to eye. It was notable that Justice Minister Nikos
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Will Tsipras move to centre stage to secure deal with lenders?
![Photo by Myrto Papadopoulos [www.myrtopapadopoulos.com]](resources/toolip/img-thumb/2013/11/06/tsipras_1000_myrto_0511-medium.jpg "Photo by Myrto Papadopoulos [www.myrtopapadopoulos.com]")
PoliticsGreek Politicswithin the government, even leading to thoughts of removing Panousis’s portfolio from the Interior.... Interior Minister Nikos Voutsis and Alternate Minister for European Affairs Nikos Hountis
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