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Tsipras takes big risk by axing public revenues chief Savvaidou
PoliticsGreek Politicsrevenues Katerina Savvaidou to leave her position, despite her insistence that she would not bow... had the moral authority to tackle tax evasion due to her being implicated in two cases of alleged breach of duty. One involved her decision ahead of the elections in January to extend by a year
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Gennimata's death casts shadow over politics, KINAL leadership race
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGennimata had died after recent complications with her long-running battle against cancer. A few days ago, 56-year-old Gennimata announced that she was abandoning her campaign to be re-elected... was to keep KINAL alive at the ballot box. Under her leadership, the party gained 6.29 pct
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Report on minister's surveillance ups ante for ND, as PASOK reels from MEP's arrest
PoliticsGreek Politics. Her arrest sparked a furious effort by her party, PASOK, to disown the parliamentarian and portray her as being closer to New Democracy over the last few years. In its report, Documento claimed..., influence political and economic decisions in the European Parliament. Within hours of her arrest
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Tempe and subsidy scandal back in spotlight as MPs prepare to vote on latest probe
PoliticsGreek Politicsparties to gain some attention. However, in a TV interview on Monday, Maria Karystianou, who lost her... was based on a proposal she had drafted, was submitted she has been warned that her safety, as well as he... warned her that she or her son could be involved in an “accident”. She has provided the information
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Government outlines plans for rival port to Piraeus in strategic partnership with US
PoliticsGreek Politicsin logistics, industry and research and development. Guilfoyle, who took up her post two weeks ago... her personal style and evident appreciation of Greek popular culture have captivated the morning talk shows and made her a household name. Guilfoyle’s unorthodox brand of public diplomacy is seen
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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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Who’s afraid of Angela Merkel?
AgoraAngela Merkel triumphed in the German elections. The 41.5 percent gained by the CDU/CSU put her in the same league as her conservative predecessors, Konrad Adenauer and Helmut Kohl. While most of Europe hoped for a different outcome, Germans opted for Mutti (mummy) Angela. Her simple message
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Newsletter 20 - 20/03/2015
” for Merkel when addressing her Greek counterpart. The fact that Tsipras is going to Berlin to meet Merkel... place in Athens, with the city centre in lockdown as it was during her last visit almost a year ago... and cannot be based on a continuation of austerity measures? Given her track record in eurozone crisis
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What will be on the agenda for talks between Merkel and Tsipras?
Agora” for Merkel when addressing her Greek counterpart. The fact that Tsipras is going to Berlin to meet... to take place in Athens, with the city centre in lockdown as it was during her last visit almost a year... and cannot be based on a continuation of austerity measures? Given her track record in eurozone crisis
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