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Parties line up for second day in OPEKEPE debate as rivals accuse PM of cover-up
PoliticsGreek Politicsfollowing a stormy debate, leaving the opposition to conduct a largely ceremonial debate... in technical terms, and five right-leaning independent MPs. Round two Wednesday will see lawmakers debate two... Democracy leadership and the prime minister himself. Government sources say that Wednesday’s debate
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Tsipras targets opposition in debate but parliament speaker steals the show
PoliticsGreek PoliticsA parliamentary debate about Greece’s negotiations with its lenders failed to produce any substance... Democracy. Despite the debate being called by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, he failed to show his cards... the debate that the government would not back down on measures it believes are “red lines
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Blueprint for election battle laid out in Parliament debate
PoliticsGreek PoliticsA parliamentary debate on the third anniversary of the 2015 referendum provided an opportunity... ahead of what promises to be a long battle before the next elections. The debate was ostensibly... be sent to the prosecutor. The debate will likely serve as a template for much that will follow
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Newsletter 144 -15/12/2017
the third review in January. The debate on the 2018 budget began in Parliament on Monday and is due.... The budget balance in the first 11 months of 2017 recorded a deficit of 763 million euros, landing
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The euro debate Greece is not having
Agoraon the competitiveness front. It is a debate on these plain macro facts that is missing in Greece. Any... in the 'drachma lobby'. These questions should be used as the fulcrum for a much needed debate on how Greece will be able to respond to the euro challenges. It is about time we have a debate that extends our
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First TV debate does little to fire up election contest
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe first, and rather tepid, televised debate ahead of the September 20 elections is unlikely..., although combative, approach to the debate. - The only other spicy moment of the night was a spat... to the next debate, which is planned for Monday and will involve just Tsipras and Meimarakis. Both
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Parliament debate yields little, wait for bailout tranche goes on
PoliticsGreek PoliticsA debate in Parliament on Monday which lasted more than seven hours failed to provide Greeks... to be the focus of the debate after a request by New Democracy for the deal to be scrutinised by MPs... organisation with criminal elements.” Bailout tranche A subject that did not come up during the debate
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Police and protests at centre of political leaders' debate
PoliticsGreek Politicstheir behaviour. During a leaders’ debate on the recent incidents in the Nea Smyrni neighbourhood of Athens... recently. Much of the debate was taken up by this kind of thrust-and-parry between the two leaders.... Media attention One of the more interesting aspects of the debate concerned the references
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Surveillance and Qatargate threaten to overshadow budget debate
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe scheduled debate over next year’s budget kicks off today with political parties distracted... elections. The events of recent days, however, suggest that it will be hard to keep the debate... embarrassing revelations derailing the debate. A change of schedule to bring the budget vote forward from
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PASOK tries to take initiative in budget debate as SYRIZA exodus continues
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe debate about the 2025 budget is due to begin in Parliament on Wednesday amid an ongoing tug... sector. The socialists have attempted to upstage the government ahead of the budget debate, which... that bankers have become agitated by the political debate around their policies, fearing that the direction
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