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Government takes another stab at media regulation among growing scepticism
SocietyEarlier this month, Greece’s media regulator started the process of examining the bids for private... by Greece’s highest administrative court. Lack of trust The promise to tackle the “entanglement” between... in a broad sense with the public. Ordinary Greeks and experts concur that Greece’s media do a poor job
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Newsletter 151 -16/02/2018
is not likely to be a one-off occurrence. Turkish military operations in Syria’s Afrin... the country’s southern border. The Greek government has chosen to try to de-escalate by keeping public... politicians implicated in the scandal. Samaras’s action is unprecedented in recent Greek political
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Mitsotakis scoffs at coalition's MoU exit strategy, challenges PM to elections
PoliticsGreek PoliticsIn his attempt to reveal weaknesses in the government’s bailout exit strategy, New Democracy leader.... Speaking to party officials on Friday, Mitsotakis argued that the coalition’s clean exit narrative... at the government’s argument that it is preparing for a clean exit from the programme. The recent
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War of words fuels bitter mood in Greek politics
PoliticsGreek Politics. The prime minister’s office, though, issued a non-paper to journalists in which it claimed the story was a sign of “desperation” from “Parapolitika’s drug baron funder.” The newspaper is owned by shipping...’s sister. Kammenos has been involved in a long-running battle with Marinakis. The minister accused
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GDP up by 2.3 pct year-on-year in Q1 on strong export growth
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece’s seasonally adjusted (SA) GDP grew by 0.8 percent quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) in the first... year, private consumption fell by 0.4 percent in Q1, easing from the previous quarter’s fall of 0.8... that Greece’s trade deficit fell by 23.1 percent during the month to 1.63 billion euros
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Bond difficulties put a dent in coalition's exit plans
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the third bailout in August has put another dent in the government’s hopes of making as clean a break... talk of the MoU exit this summer being crowned with a 10-year bond issue, confirming Greece’s return... the government’s claim regarding a clean exit from the bailout as it raises questions about whether
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Tsipras hails name deal with Skopje, Mitsotakis declares fierce opposition
PoliticsGreek Politics– Citizens of North Macedonia. The country’s language will continue to be recognised as Macedonian... conference earlier in the day, Tsipras’s coalition partner Panos Kammenos insisted that his... does not think the agreement will be approved in a referendum in FYROM. Kammenos’s stance creates
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Name settlement triggers intense political battle
PoliticsGreek Politics, Mitsotakis has raised the political stakes because he is questioning Tsipras’s right to proceed... with Zaev ticks many of the boxes that Karamanlis had set out a decade ago, when he made it Greece’s... would almost certainly vote against the motion despite the nationalist party’s opposition to the name
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No bounce for Tsipras in poll as cracks appear in centre-left
PoliticsGreek Politicson Friday, Tsipras announced that he had agreed with Greece’s lenders for the discount of up to 30... that are still in Spain or Greece. Tsipras told journalists that the agreement was in Greece’s.... The government’s opponents, though, argued that this was a bad deal for Greece and would lead
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Mitsotakis warns party to be ready for elections as political contest intensifies
PoliticsGreek Politicswith the aim of catching the conservatives off guard. Speaking to New Democracy’s political committee... intensity head-on. “We are ready,” he told the party’s senior political body. “Whenever elections take... to the Macedonia name deal. New Democracy’s main line of attack against the government has been to challenge its
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