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Mixed messages on foreign policy put coalition under pressure
PoliticsGreek PoliticsMinister’s office later played down the incident, prompting the government’s opponents to highlight the apparent confusion within the coalition’s ranks on a crucial foreign policy issue. “I cannot... it was dealt with,” said New Democracy’s shadow defence minister Vassilis Kikilias. “We are seeing
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Multi-bill passed, sub-tranche released but debt relief expectations dwindling
EconomyProgrammeExpectations for the debt relief package that may be agreed at next week’s Eurogroup are being kept... with the support of all of the coalition’s 154 MPs. This paves the way for the institutions to confirm..., with the remainder being included in the post-programme framework. On Thursday, the European Stability Mechanism’s
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Coalition survives no-confidence vote over name deal but sees majority trimmed
PoliticsGreek Politics(but no relation) was being ousted from the party’s parliamentary group. If the MP does not give up his seat, which seems unlikely, the coalition’s majority will be reduced by one to just three seats. Given that Dimitris Kammenos’s relations with SYRIZA have been poor for several months, partly as a result
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Is a lack of spending hampering Greece's firefighting capabilities?
Society, implemented under the terms of the country’s bailout by European institutions and the IMF, starting in 2010...’s creditors and “the straitjacket of inane austerity and misanthropic social policies that have.... But how big a role did austerity play in bringing about last week’s tragedy? And to what extent
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Tsipras bids farewell to MoU, eyes new start for Greece and SYRIZA
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAlexis Tsipras delivered on Tuesday his long-awaited speech to mark the end of Greece’s third... on Tuesday and made numerous references to Odysseus’s journey in his speech, which lasted less than eight... confident that it can agree a deal with the institutions that would lead to the shelving of next year’s
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Coalition tweaks labour market, lines up more post-MoU changes
PoliticsGreek Politicsworkers in total are affected by the government’s decision, which relates to banking, shipping, travel... ended on August 20. The restoration of workers’ rights after the completion of Greece’s bailouts, during which they were reined in, is one of the government’s key pledges and one of the headline items
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PM stands by Macedonia name deal, Kammenos continues to sow confusion
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat the Greek Parliament would be called on to ratify the deal, which would lead to Greece’s..., which is opposed to the agreement, of double standards. He pointed out that the opposition’s complaints that the current government has handed over the right to Greece’s neighbours to call themselves
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Kammenos deviation raises more questions about coalition's endurance
PoliticsGreek Politicspressure on SYRIZA’s increasingly troubled governing alliance with his small nationalist party... (FYROM), which would involve forming a defence alliance with Greece’s neighbour, and suggested... suggestion runs counter to Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s intentions to try to ratify the agreement he
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After Kotzias departure, Tsipras hopes for clear path to elections
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat it will lead to any material change to the SYRIZA leader’s political plans. For Tsipras, this week... prompted Tsipras to have secret talks with Kammenos this week, followed by Tuesday’s cabinet... to organisations abroad, journalists and others. During Tuesday’s cabinet meeting, Kotzias is alleged to have
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Eyeing domestic gains, Tsipras pursues closer ties with Europe's social democrats
PoliticsGreek Politicsat the conference held by Germany’s SPD on Saturday, when he also held talks with the centre-left party’s Finance Minister Olaf Scholz. The SYRIZA leader is also expected to host Spain’s socialist..., if not absolutely necessary, ally. The cultivation of the relationship with Europe’s centre-left
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