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Under relentless pressure from opponents, Tsipras unveils plans for new crisis agency
PoliticsGreek PoliticsKyriakos Mitsotakis had asked for the prime minister to call elections as soon as Greece exits from.... The negative mood also seems to preclude any move by Tsipras to call snap elections in the immediate... that the government has shown it is not fit to govern and that it should call snap elections as soon as Greece
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Coalition hopeful on pensions, looks to maximise impact of limited relief measures
PoliticsGreek Politicsto call off the measure. “I am quite optimistic that pensions won’t be cut,” said Tsakalotos, who... measures to Parliament one by one and ask for them to be approved in roll call votes. This would... of the factors that could affect Tsipras’s thinking in terms of when to call the next general election
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Newsletter 195 -22/02/2019
general secretaries at ministries. Minister’s bank loans trigger fierce clash Call to Bank of Greece... euros he received from Attica Bank, prompting him to call Bank of Greece governor Yannis Stournaras. Details of Monday’s call were then leaked to the press, prompting Stournaras to issue a statement
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Turkey closes borders, Greece keeps up pressure
PoliticsForeign Policyto replace the EU–Turkey 2016 migration deal during a video conference call that he initiated on Tuesday...,” as he put it on Twitter. Dendias held a telephone call with his UK counterpart Dominic Raab just... harassed a Greek one off the island of Kos last week. However, during his video call with Prime
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Govt pushes tourism message, digests EU stimulus proposal
PoliticsGreek Politicsthis summer. He also held on Wednesday a conference call with the leaders of seven other countries... service sectors. Mitsotakis highlighted in his call on Wednesday, the third between the select group... with nine other European leaders to call for a “Corona-bond.” Although the Recovery Fund would
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Pressure intensifies on govt for more radical interventions in energy markets
PoliticsGreek Politics’s demand for stronger measures. Industrial energy users are the latest group to join the call... risk making their products uncompetitive and putting Greek manufacturers out of business. The call... the meeting was a call for the government to impose a windfall tax on big energy companies. Opposition
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Speculation about snap polls after summer revived by PM's US trip
PoliticsGreek Politicswill opt to call elections after the summer rather than wait until the end of his government’s four... to call snap polls lie mainly in protecting New Democracy from extended wear-and-tear from the cost... at the Thessaloniki International Fair in early September as a platform to call elections and a springboard
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Turkey and Western Balkans top Greek agenda at European Council
PoliticsForeign Policy. The 27 European Union member states call again on Ankara to respect international law and stability... of March 25, 2021, the 27 EU leaders call on Turkey to fully respect international law, to de... stages. Mitsotakis held a telephone call with Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday. The Greek PM reiterated
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Opposition keeps pressure on Mitsotakis as surveillance issue sends ripples through ND
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the preliminary findings of the committee’s investigation this week was accompanied by a call to national... and nephew, Grigoris Dimitriadis. The call is backed by two fifths of the committee’s membership..., while there are reports that the call for early elections resurfaced once again but was quickly
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Tsipras positions SYRIZA as defender of democratic institutions amid row over police corruption
PoliticsGreek PoliticsSYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras has launched the party’s election campaign with a call for the defence of democratic values against what he describes as an abuse of power by New Democracy. The call... Parliament and call elections immediately, threatening that SYRIZA would abstain from any votes until
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