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Despite the drama, Kammenos proves reliable coalition partner for Tsipras
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAlexis Tsipras’s coalition partner, Independent Greeks (ANEL) leader Panos Kammenos, proved again... in detail. The church took umbrage at Education Minister Nikos Fylis’s plans to change religion textbooks... of his party’s limited support is made up of nationalists or Greeks who have a very close
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Tsipras encounters SYRIZA resistance, waits for court verdict on TV licences
PoliticsGreek PoliticsMinister Panos Skourletis will lose his job in a cabinet reshuffle, SYRIZA’s largest faction, the 53... ADMIE. The 53 argued that keeping such assets in public hands should be one of the government’s main targets, which runs counter to Tsipras’s apparent displeasure with Skourletis for obstructing
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Reshuffle expectations doused as coalition braces for TV permits ruling
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreece’s governing coalition is on tenterhooks over the imminent verdict on the TV licences tender... the country’s highest administrative court deem the process to have been unconstitutional, it could have..., the head of Tsipras’s office in a radio interview on Wednesday. The possibility of a ruling
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Court delivers serious blow over TV permits, gov't vows to fight on
PoliticsGreek Politicsat Greece’s highest administrative court, deemed that the law on which the tender was based clashed with Greece’s Constitution as it took away the responsibility for overseeing the licencing process from... stressed that a negative decision would not bring the government’s credibility or future into doubt
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Deadlock at NBG over chairman appointment
EconomyBankingregarding the appointment of a new chairman at National Bank (NBG). The bank’s Board of Directors... not fulfil the criteria set by the European Central Bank’s Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) for holding... Financial Stability Facility’s (HFSF) representative on the BoD, voted in favour of Dimitris Tsitsiragos
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What could Trump's victory mean for Greece?
AgoraThe reverberations of Donald Trump’s victory in the US elections are so great, coming after Brexit... Koumoutsakos said the wise thing would be to wait to see Trump’s policies rather than react to his election pledges. SYRIZA MEP Dimitris Papadimoulis expressed hope that the “shock” of the businessman’s
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Optimism in Athens as Cyprus talks move into delicate phase
PoliticsForeign Policyof the phrases used by Tsipras during Wednesday’s statements. He said “talks will continue in Switzerland... to have been agreed during the recent talks in Switzerland. US Optimism The Cypriot leader’s visit... administration have been following developments on the Cyprus issue very closely. Obama’s talks
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Tsakalotos states case for debt relief as New Democracy sharpens up
PoliticsGreek PoliticsObama’s visit to Athens and his welcome comments on the need for less austerity and more debt relief... with Greece’s lenders by November 28, while New Democracy is seeking to fine tune its stance as the main... published in Friday’s Wall Street Journal, Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos indicated that the government
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Another spin of the wheel for Greece
Agorain Athens’s Syntagma Square. It was the first year the city centre’s Christmas and New Year’s... between now and 2060) and not to discuss medium- or long-term steps to bring down the country’s debt... in 2016. Worrying fundamentals Many of the Greek economy’s fundamentals remain worrying, though
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IMF's outlook on debt unsustainability adds to doubts after inconclusive Eurogroup
EconomyProgrammeThe Greek government attempted to put a positive spin on Thursday’s Eurogroup even though it seems...” on the way forward. Tsakalotos insisted after the meeting that the IMF’s demand for upfront... overshadowed shortly by the IMF’s debt sustainability analysis (DSA), which is due to be presented
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