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EPPO raises stakes over judicial independence question as new political entrants build cases
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe OPEKEPE farm subsidy scandal and the Floridis amendment has escalated into a test case..., the amendment has the effect of sidelining the EPPO from investigations into parliamentarians, just... - granting them only a two‑year extension instead - has a negative effect on the EPPO’s independence
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Mitsotakis rejects early election talk despite intense speculation, as SYRIZA implodes
PoliticsGreek Politics, Mitsotakis declared that Greece has now entered “the eighth year of governance” under his leadership... these assurances, speculation about a snap election has intensified. A report on Mega TV... election date. While no decision has been taken - and constitutionally the timing rests solely
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Key Greek election date firms up; turnout could prove crucial
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe date for what is certain to prove one of this year’s watershed moments has been set... of Greeks who cast a ballot in the European elections has been dropping steadily to an all-time low of 52.6... that public opinion has shifted decisively in their favour. SYRIZA would also find it difficult to declare
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Greece gets new finance minister but old guard dominates cabinet reshuffle
PoliticsGreek Politicstranche of 1 billion euros as it has not yet completed its “prior actions.” Beyond the Finance Ministry... reshuffle) remained at the Administrative Reform Ministry, where he has the task of managing changes... in the Papademos government, will take over at the Health Ministry from Adonis Georgiadis. This has proved
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You can call it reform if you like
Agora, former Interior Minister and current New Democracy MP. Pavlopoulos has spent the last few years... of the government’s commitment to reform. But what has been the fate of the man responsible... the rails. Pavlopoulos has not been held accountable for his actions, despite Mitsotakis’s arguments
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Searching for electoral manifestos and overcoming voting obstacles in Greece
AgoraAs the electoral campaign has started to heat up in Greece, the focus of domestic and international attention has increasingly been on various policy proposals from SYRIZA, the main opposition party... and Berlin. The hysteria witnessed in recent days was embarrassing to say the least and has
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Tsipras makes unpopular choice for president, with eye on political balance
PoliticsGreek Politics-Claude Juncker. Paris-educated Pavlopoulos has two key qualities that make him more acceptable...-minister is also acceptable to SYRIZA because over recent years he has maintained a sceptical stance on the country's bailout programme. As a professor at Athens Law School, Pavlopoulos has often
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Greece and lenders already at apparent impasse, with options narrowing
PoliticsGreek Politicsin the negotiations has emerged over the institutions’ concern that some legislation being pushed through... from European Commission official Declan Costello indicates that the lenders believe that there has... government, describing Greece as the least cooperative client that the organisation has ever had
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Creditors devise proposal in Berlin, Tsipras prepares ground in Athens
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreece will adopt, the Fund also has a particular interest in the issues of debt sustainability... concessions the Greek side has won and how much it has had to give in on key issues such as pension and labour reform. The process of preparing the party for some kind of compromise has already begun
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Coalition tweaks draft electoral law in hope of clinching supermajority
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government has tweaked the electoral reform bill, hoping that a minor change will increase its... that the change would be effective immediately but the coalition has now cleared up any doubts. Should... votes, the Union of Centrists another 9 and KKE 15, taking the total to 177. Golden Dawn, which has
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