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Greece left isolated on migrant crisis, with bailout talks finely poised
PoliticsGreek PoliticsMouzalas went into an informal meeting of European Union interior ministers on Monday on the back of reports that Athens was to receive a new warning (just a few weeks after the last one) that it could.... No one talking about a "suspension of" or "exclusion from" Schengen – no such possibility exists. We
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Pressure on Greece to stem migrant flow puts strain on EU ties
PoliticsGreek Politicsof refugees and migrants to northern and central Europe. EU interior ministers urged Greece to have the hot spots ready by the end of February. Only one, on Lesvos, has been completed so far. The EU hopes... but it is clear that one way or another Greece is going to have to hold a much larger number of migrants
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Greek effort to heal rift with Balkan neighbours may have come too late
PoliticsForeign Policyon these issues, which is one of the key reasons behind Skopje’s decision to close the borders with Greece... in the response from Athens is one of the factors that led to the cooperation between Austria... with suspicion and tension, the foreign and interior ministers of Greece’s neighbours accepted
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Potential changes to constitution and electoral law move onto main agenda
PoliticsGreek Politicsnot be drawn on what proposals the coalition plans to make, although one of the changes the government... made recently by Interior Minister Panayiotis Kouroublis. Kouroublis said earlier this year that one of the government’s main aims is to create smaller electoral regions so that no single area elects
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Athens chided over asylum process but complex set of obstacles in way
PoliticsGreek Politicsone Syrian from Turkey for each one returned by Greece. However, the process has stalled on the Greek..., a spokesman for Germany’s Interior Ministry, who told the Financial Times that Berlin offered 200
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Athens and lenders stay mum on agreement, domestic reaction awaited
PoliticsGreek Politicsmay happen in one go in 2020 as the lenders had wanted, and the expansionary counter-measures... that we will gladly vote for them.” One of the reasons that the details of the potential agreement.... Skourletis Interior Minister Panos Skourletis toned down on Wednesday his reaction to the potential sale
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PASOK launches attempt to form alliance that would rival SYRIZA
PoliticsGreek Politics, Gennimata satisfies one of the demands made by To Potami last year, when an attempt to unite... synthesis of political personnel, views and support. Significantly, one of the three former PASOK ministers... last week. Ex-Interior Minister Yiannis Ragousis attended the meeting, taking a different approach
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Name issue and auction targets make waves in domestic politics
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe position carved out by one of his predecessors, Kostas Karamanlis, when he was prime minister. Speaking... the consequences of Monday’s Eurogroup. The one issue that has made headlines, though, is the demand from... this matter. Speaking to ANT-1 TV on Wednesday, Interior Minister Panos Skourletis said that Kammenos’s
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Newsletter 160 -04/05/2018
getting one family member into employment significantly improves the wellbeing of the household and can... dropped by 2.1 points to 52.9 in April, nearing almost one full year where the reading has stayed... appears to have forced Gennimata’s hand. On Sunday, Interior Minister Panos Skourletis suggested
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Splits and alliances on leaders' minds as thoughts turn to next elections
PoliticsGreek Politicsis concerned. On the one hand, he wants to highlight the party’s weaknesses because he fears... the conclusion of the third bailout this summer. Former PASOK leader George Papandreou, who is one..., that Interior Minister Panos Skourletis recently proposed changes to the vast Athens “B” electoral precinct
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