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  1. In bid to polish SYRIZA's image, Tsipras visits Mount Athos monks
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    Minister Antonis Samaras was there a few months ago) but the sight of Tsipras, who has said he.... Greece has never had an atheist prime minister and Tsipras runs the risk of being unable to reach... the church even though he is a non-believer. Until now, New Democracy has maintained the strongest ties

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  2. The television will not be revolutionised
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    Agora

    broadcasts, it has found itself without a chairman for a second time. Antonis Makrydimitris, and his deputy... departed suggests that the coalition has little appetite for NERIT becoming the independent broadcaster it promised. Either that or it has abandoned those intentions with the same speed it passed

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  3. Standoff over civil servants in Greece bears hallmarks of pre-election clash
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    and SYRIZA over the evaluation of civil servants. The conflict has arisen from the refusal... Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has decided to adopt a scheme that will result in 15 percent of civil.... Mitsotakis insists that almost 4,000 more dismissals, which the government has agreed with the troika

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  4. SYRIZA builds clear but not conclusive lead in polls as PASOK and GD fade
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    Another weekend has passed and another set of polls have given SYRIZA a clear but not decisive lead... between SYRIZA and New Democracy has widened by 1.5 percentage point in the last month. The opposition... and PASOK polling 4 percent or less in two of the three. While PASOK’s decline has been evident

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  5. How Samaras backed himself and Greece into a corner over bailout exit
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    Agora

    of a government on the run. In less than five months, the coalition has backed itself and the country... months on, the review has still not been concluded and Samaras and Venizelos are still meeting every... of oversight. It should not be forgotten that European Central Bank president Mario Draghi has made

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  6. Crisis weakens confidence in Greek representative institutions
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    Society

    pollster has found. Conducted by Public Issue since 2007, the annual survey looks at the public’s... confidence in the military, which has seen its rating grow from 71 percent in eight years, while trust... of respondents expressed confidence in political parties, a figure which has remained almost unchanged since 2007

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  7. Golden Dawn: Forgotten but not gone
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    With its leader and half of its parliamentary group in jail, it is no surprise that Golden Dawn has... the election campaign, Golden Dawn has had little presence in the Greek media over the past few... Michaloliakos and several of its leading candidates were on TV regularly. The party has been pushed

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  8. Newsletter 13 - 30/01/2015

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    and international audience that it has every intention of keeping its pre-election pledge to roll back some... no time in showing that it has every intention of keeping its pre-election pledges. back... different philosophy from the one that has governed the bailouts since 2010. It remains to be seen if Greece

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  9. Eurogroup leaves Tsipras with difficult but not impossible deal to sell at home
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    -month extension of Greece’s loan agreement, which has some concessions for the coalition but overall... minister will focus on: Lower primary surplus Varoufakis has secured a concession on the issue... such flexibility has been shown with fiscal goals since Greece’s bailouts began in May 2010. ECB waiver

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  10. Greek reform proposals set for broad approval but include some political obstacles
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    is that it has received swift approval from Greece's creditors (apart from the International... guaranteeing full accountability and transparency of its operations." The government has also set its... procurements. It is in the area of the media, however, where the coalition has plans to go much further than

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