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  1. Tsipras bides his time on confidence vote, weighs up options
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    let it be known that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who saw just 118 coalition MPs support the legislation, would move quickly to call a confidence vote. On Monday, however, government sources... pulled back, at least for now, from his rush to call a confidence vote may indicate that he has yet

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  2. Newsletter 80 - 01/07/2016

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    consequences for Greece. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras saw it as an opportunity to underline his... in Brussels this week. There, Tsipras reportedly issued a rallying call for social democrats not to allow... a referendum he did not need to call but whose result he promised to implement, Chancellor George

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  3. In absence of deal with lenders, some in SYRIZA keep political options open
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    , that it does not need the votes of other parties. He did say, however, that the government would call... that believe Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras should seek extra support or call snap elections if he... also saw their support decline from 16.5 to 15.5 percent. The opinion poll contains other data

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  4. Newsletter 160 -04/05/2018

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    Opposition leaders fuel election talk As Mitsotakis and Gennimata call for snap polls, Tsipras... are in play. The first is for Tsipras to call a snap vote later this year in a bid to capitalise... quarter of the year saw a substantial slow down with growth of only 0.1 percent compared

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  5. PM relies on patchwork of measures to keep Covid at bay as jab uptake flags

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    seen as key to building what authorities call the “wall of immunity”. With effect until the end of 2021... euros for each vaccination house call, and 20 euros for each shot administered at a surgery. Meanwhile.... Thursday saw just under 76,000 shots administered, only a third of which were first doses. While 4.7

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  6. Newsletter 312 - 15/10/2021

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    in this year’s World Press Freedom Index, which saw Greece drop five places to 70th out of 180 countries. Developments prompted SYRIZA to call this week for a parliamentary inquiry into the New... on the initiative, the call for an inquiry appears to have surprised the government by attracting wide support

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  7. Newsletter 313 - 22/10/2021

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    . Meanwhile, 42-year-old MEP Nikos Androulakis – one of the youngest hopefuls – saw an opportunity to call..., the centrepiece of the interview was Tsipras’s call for the minimum wage to be raised to 800 euros

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  8. Coalition bolsters unity in face of opposition pressure
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    Greeks (ANEL) appear to have made the coalition members even more determined to stick together... took their decision after ANEL indicated it would not back two pieces of draft legislation. One... and to avoid fines from Brussels. However, New Democracy and ANEL were among those who expressed concern

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  9. Latest lockdown tweaks prompt opposition backlash
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    a balance between optimism and caution, warning that while warmer weather and the vaccination programme

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  10. Greece hopes beaches won't be empty again this summer, but vaccination numbers say otherwise

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    and warmer weather will bring infections down to manageable levels and make it safe to welcome visitors

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