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New Year reshuffle brings more MPs into cabinet, keeps key ministers in post
PoliticsGreek Politicsin order to overcome the challenge of proportional representation. The next elections will be held under... the 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
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Approach to protests, policing poses a new quandary for government
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the incident, accusing SYRIZA of losing control of law and order. The law and order issue... portfolio from the Interior Ministry to the Justice Ministry amid concerns that Panousis and Interior Minister Nikos Voutsis did not see eye to eye. It was notable that Justice Minister Nikos
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Newsletter 228 -15/11/2019
ND invests in law and order Govt takes tough line on universities, anarchists to win over right... to shift the political debate to matters where it believes it is in stronger ground: Law and order... that promotes law and order to retain voter satisfaction by cracking down on anarchist groups
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Govt’s “zero tolerance” approach to violent protest provokes accusations of authoritarianism
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGovernment and opposition in Greece are once again facing off over law and order in universities... and order agenda Visible policing has been one of the hallmarks of the New Democracy government since... public order offences harsher. A key change involved easing police access to university campuses
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Will Tsipras move to centre stage to secure deal with lenders?
PoliticsGreek Politicsa revised list of reforms within the next few days in order for there to be a chance of eurozone... within the government, even leading to thoughts of removing Panousis’s portfolio from the Interior.... Interior Minister Nikos Voutsis and Alternate Minister for European Affairs Nikos Hountis
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Could Greece's immigration reforms have an impact on upcoming elections?
Societythe number of citizenships awarded in order to build its base, the statistics show a relatively... granted “skyrocketed” from 14,178 to 33,487. Interior Minister Alexis Haritsis responded by describing... inhabitants in 2017. The Interior Ministry publishes more detailed statistics on citizenship
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Greece aiming to agree updated migration deal with Turkey
PoliticsForeign Policyrefugees to EU member states. This will be a tall order since EU member states are already having... Johansson and German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser, the Greek minister said there is more cooperation... following the EU Interior minister’s council that “in my view this statement (EU-Turkey deal) should
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Newsletter 35 - 17/07/2015
parliamentary group, which has crossed numerous “red lines” to support unpopular measures in order... of pensioners waiting in the July heat to gain access to a bank branch in order to collect parts... will rush to turn on the lending taps to the real economy in order to maximise available funds from
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Is Greece facing a new migration crisis?
SocietyIn absolute numbers, the recent arrivals are lower by an order of magnitude compared to 2015, when several... reframed migration policy in line with its focus on a “law and order” agenda. One of its first acts... defining it as a public order issue, rather than a citizenship or humanitarian issue. Prior
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Tsipras keeps bailout issues in safe hands but fails to inspire with new cabinet
PoliticsGreek Politicsin order to prevent drownings in the Aegean, which will get choppier as the winter sets in. Tsipras chose not to return Yiannis Panousis to his previous role as citizens’ protection (public order) minister... as health minister. His predecessor, Panayiotis Kouroublis, was moved across to the Interior Ministry
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