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  1. New Democracy sticks by snap polls call as gov't looks to probe, tender for relief
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    Mitsotakis on Tuesday to call on Tsipras to resign and snap elections to be held if necessary marked... two-party administration does not survive much longer. New Democracy, though, stands by its call

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  2. Mitsotakis-Erdogan call seen as first step to possible thaw in relations

    PoliticsForeign Policy

    The telephone call last Friday between Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is seen by diplomatic sources in Athens as a first step for both sides to overcome... that “diplomacy is not exercised via third parties”. It seems that the telephone call was initiated

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  3. PM seeks to leave ICU controversy behind as Tsipras ups stakes with snap election call
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    of the pandemic, fuelled by the Omicron variant, and that it should resign, prompting snap elections. This call... likely that Tsipras’s decision to call for Mitsotakis to step down was triggered by the recent change

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  4. Government takes another stab at media regulation among growing scepticism
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    Society

    TV broadcast licenses. While the relationship between money, power and information is the subject... of corruption”, was a flagship campaign pledge for SYRIZA. Private TV channels have been on air in Greece since..., a government contractor allied to SYRIZA, failed to come up with the funds for the license after

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  5. TV permit auction boosts Greek coffers but questions linger

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    of the auction result is that Skai TV, with which the governing parties have had a long-running... Marinakis, a shipowner who is also chairman of Olympiakos football club, to the TV market is likely..., the government suggested it could get 340 million euros in revenues from the TV licence tender

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  6. After joy of TV permit auction, Tsipras faces programme restrictions
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    with the representatives of the four firms that were successful in last week’s TV licence auction... Nikos Pappas, who has overseen the whole process of regulating the TV market. It is clear, however... disposal. The prime minister, however, will want to maximise the political benefit from the TV tender

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  7. After TV permits setback, scrutiny of State Minister Pappas intensifies
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    in the wake of the failed TV permit tender that he oversaw. It was reported recently that Pappas travelled... that the government will launch a new effort to regulate the TV sector. In an interview with Le Figaro newspaper... licencing procedure. In a TV interview in Greece on Tuesday night, Pappas welcomed New Democracy proposing

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  8. Tsipras and Kammenos ready to call time on coalition after agreeing Friday meeting
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    out as the Defence Minister had arranged to take part in a TV interview on Wednesday night, shortly... is still due to go ahead with his interview on Open TV on Wednesday night. Holding the meeting

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  9. You can call it reform if you like
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    Agora

    with deciding what changes need to be made to the constitution. You can call this reform if you like

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  10. Referendum call stretches state liquidity, pensioners first to bear the brunt
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    EconomyProgramme

    to the large queues in ATMs from a large number of citizens in the aftermath of the referendum call

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