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Government under pressure from TV permit and Attica Bank claims
PoliticsGreek PoliticsTsipras sought to put distance between his administration and Kalogritsas by telling SYRIZA’s central... of revelations has put the government in a very difficult position as SYRIZA will find it difficult to argue... concern about the developments, culminating in Interior Minister Panayiotis Kouroublis suggesting
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Change to date of local elections adds to expectations of May national vote
PoliticsGreek Politicsto be put to a vote by Greek MPs several months earlier as Kammenos has indicated he would withdraw his... with its efforts to put pressure on the coalition to allow Greeks abroad to vote in the next general... agreed on Wednesday to hold local and European Parliament elections together. Interior Minister Panos
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SYRIZA unveils array of pledges to win over voters ahead of July 7 vote
PoliticsGreek Politicscontent of the manifesto, the emphasis was put on 12 policies that are designed to appeal to mostly... of the economic proposals made on Monday by SYRIZA are similar to the ones that New Democracy has put... Minister Mariliza Xenogiannakopoulou and Interior Minister Alexis Haritsis, the governing party set out
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Evia flooding reopens government's summer wounds
PoliticsGreek Politicsto put behind it the fallout from this summer’s wildfires, which cost New Democracy and Prime... has been high on SYRIZA’s agenda, particularly following the Covid awareness campaigns put together... a living there. This attack elicited the somewhat strange response from Alternate Interior Minister
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SYRIZA, PASOK leaders prepare responses to stark choice presented by PM
PoliticsGreek Politicsblocked the witness list put forward by opposition parties. The conservative lawmakers also rebuffed calls... on Tuesday of the legislative act the government put forward containing some initial reforms... Interior Minister Stelios Petsas in a TV interview, when he suggested that Greeks will have to adapt over
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Newsletter 357 - 04/11/2022
hoped had been put to bed following the inconclusive parliamentary inquiry into the bugging... picked up on the latest allegations and tried to put PM Mitsotakis under new pressure by raising... that since Patsis was Alternate Interior Minister Stelios Petsas’s best man and that Justice Minister
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Jockeying over presidential nomination points to parties' longer-term political goals
PoliticsGreek Politicsto nominate a figure from the centre-left, but also put pressure on PASOK. The social democrats feel... with PASOK, but also to put the socialists in a position where he can criticise them for backing a possible... Karolos Papoulias in 2005 or Alexis Tsipras choosing former interior minister and New Democracy
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Government comes out swinging as tense week, building up to Tempe protests, begins
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe country. New Democracy is concerned that another large turnout, as on January 26, will put..., will put the spotlight on the government over its actions in the wake of the Tempe crash... as the government tries to hit back against its opponents via the media. Another is Interior Minister
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Rental subsidy rekindles political debate over housing crisis
PoliticsGreek Politicsaround 20,000, to be put on the market. However, the problem of high prices and rents has... government representatives will be elected. Voters will be given the chance to put a second preference... fell to 35.2 pct in the second ballot. The Interior Ministry believes the new system will ensure
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Newsletter 106 - 10/02/2017
Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble has returned to his pet subject of Grexit, arguing that Greece would
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