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  1. Newsletter 71 - 22/04/2016

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    party officials for making insulting statements. Mitsotakis has branded himself as a more modern and transparent politician than his predecessors and peers, so showing that there is some substance to his.... Whatever the case, though, his comment seemed retrogressive for a politician who many have placed

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  2. ND denies plans to bring in more MPs as Mitsotakis waits to see impact of new measures
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    Dawn politician. On Monday night, the Interior Ministry tabled an amendment in Parliament aimed... lawmaker who backed the budget, Lefteris Avgenakis. The Cretan politician was expelled from ND’s..., hinting perhaps at the difficulty the social democrat politician continues to have in terms

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  3. Mitsotakis surprises with cabinet tweaks featuring familiar faces
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    Simitis in 1999. The former PASOK politician is often touted as a “safe pair of hands” due... sources say the prime minister is putting his reliance in tried-and-tested politicians to "get

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  4. Newsletter 16 - 20/02/2015

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    disappointment. The truth is that Tsipras has never shown himself to be a politician that would shy away... in his cabinet, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras chose former New Democracy Interior Minister Prokopis... government, with Pavlopoulos as Interior Minister, issued a presidential decree that allowed fixed-term

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  5. Foreign minister's visit to Ankara sparks hope of new era in Greek-Turkish ties
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    Recep Tayyip Erdogan when the pair met at the latter’s presidential palace, or Ak Saray (White Palace...? The two sides agreed to enhance co-operation through the Ministries of interior and justice with the aim

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  6. Tsipras keeps bailout issues in safe hands but fails to inspire with new cabinet
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    a safe pair of hands, Deputy Prime Minister Yiannis Dragasakis, retains his position. Dragasakis... as health minister. His predecessor, Panayiotis Kouroublis, was moved across to the Interior Ministry

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  7. Athens sticks by effort to build bridges with FYROM
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    the pair met last week. Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias decided to set aside the unstable... administration, trans border cooperation, energy, interior affairs and cases of justice. One

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  8. Athens chided over asylum process but complex set of obstacles in way
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    the pair met last weekend that Greece is moving too slowly on the processing of asylum applications..., a spokesman for Germany’s Interior Ministry, who told the Financial Times that Berlin offered 200

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  9. New Greek cabinet a mixed bag, prompting hope and concern
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    The 68-year-old is one of SYRIZA's most moderate voices and he is the only politician in the party’s... "The Rape of Greece." Mardas, though, is not a politician. He has worked at the European Commission... nationalist line and is in favour of closer relations with Russia. The right-wing politician visited

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  10. Tsipras concludes US trip with focus on geopolitics and investments
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    terms now, Tsipras described himself as a “leftist, progressive” politician who is also realistic... in the trip with US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and the pair agreed to set up a joint team of US

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