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  1. Samaras strays out of line in search for new normal
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    is to make Greece “a normal European country.” Whatever he may mean by this and however genuine he may... tweeted that the “hit in Paris may prove to be the end of innocence about Islam as far as Europe... attack. Speaking to the BBC on Wednesday evening, Front National’s Vice-President Florian Philippot drew

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  2. SYRIZA launches internal dialogue to tackle questions of identity, future direction
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    of the Mati wildfires in the summer of 2018 when he was interior minister. However, what is currently being..., or transforms into a more traditional social-democratic party in the European tradition. SYRIZA may have lost... amendments making it simpler to dismiss workers by repealing a law passed by SYRIZA in May obliging

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  3. Newsletter 325 - 28/01/2022

    Newsletters

    Alexis Tsipras tabled a censure motion on Thursday. He may also have been spurred into action... of coordination among authorities during the deadly fire in Mati, when SYRIZA was in power in 2018... and, although it may have avoided the numerous deaths that occurred during natural disasters on SYRIZA’s watch

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  4. Tsipras tries to take lead in fire response amid picture of confusion
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    As the investigation into the Mati fire proceeds and more reports of the apparent mishandling... to the bottom of the “how and why” of the Mati tragedy and to ensure that it would not happen again. Echoing previous comments on the matter, Tsipras admitted that there may have been mistakes in confronting

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  5. Mitsotakis steps up pressure on coalition over wildfire deaths
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    that the accounts of survivors of the Mati fire have more value and are more truthful than the explanations... for the deaths in Mati. One of the survivors has already filed a law suit and other legal action... knows that the muddled handling of the Mati disaster by the government means that he has to simply

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  6. Speculation about May elections revived by SYRIZA officials' comments
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    polls in May. SYRIZA MP Nikos Fylis became the latest high-profile member of the leftist government... be on another date [apart from the end of the government’s four-year term], by which I mean May.” His comment... Skourletis that were also seen as talking up the possibility of elections being held in May along

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  7. Amid risk of 2015 re-run, Greece searching for deal with lenders
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    the top rate of VAT from 23 percent to 24 may help reach the 1 percent of GDP target needed from... affect the process and the government’s appetite for a deal may be affected if it considers... that the negotiators parted on bad terms, with European Stability Mechanism managing director Klaus Regling

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  8. Fire fallout casts doubt on Tsipras’s post-MoU strategy
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    of the Mati disaster will still be fresh. It has been rumoured that Tsipras may conduct a cabinet...There is speculation that political fallout from the wildfire in Mati, where the death toll is approaching 100, may affect Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s strategy for the last stretch of the current

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  9. Greek effort to heal rift with Balkan neighbours may have come too late
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    in Thessaloniki recently may provide a springboard for an improvement in relations that have been severely... (FYROM) to exchange views on the common problems they face. While the atmosphere may have been tinged with suspicion and tension, the foreign and interior ministers of Greece’s neighbours accepted

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  10. Unpaid taxes keep rising, tax audits short of targets

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    Greece’s unpaid taxes rose by 873 million in May at a slightly accelerating pace compared... Systems. Following May’s performance, the year to date figure of new unpaid tax obligations stands... at the end of May from 65.97 billion at the end of April. Although the cumulative debt keeps rising

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