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PASOK elects new leader, hopes to stop slide and regroup
PoliticsGreek PoliticsEx-minister Fofi Gennimata has been elected the new leader of PASOK as the socialist party... popularity has plummeted is that less than 50,000 people voted for the three candidates on Sunday... fortunes. Apart from seeing its support shrink over the past few years, PASOK has also seen
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After talks at UN, Tsipras returns to grind of parliamentary politics
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe voting has taken place, a three-day debate will begin on Monday before the government faces.... The SYRIZA-Independent Greeks coalition has 155 out of the 300 seats in Parliament and there has been... a discussion about to what extent this will be possible. Already, the government has indicated
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Talk of refugee returns adds to stretched Greece's anxiety
PoliticsForeign Policyregulations. Germany has not returned refugees to Greece since 2011. Clearly, the prospect of refugees... of the hotspots there is set at just under 7,500. This has led to increasing unrest at the camps... there has been a marked increase in the number of asylum applications (around 4,000 per month in recent
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Parties mull changes to electoral law, top judge resigns
PoliticsGreek Politicshas so far suggested that it is not willing to discuss changing the electoral law it approved... abroad to vote. The government has now suggested it is in favour of making the first of these changes, while New Democracy has started pushing again for expatriates to have the right to cast ballots
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Coalition eyes electoral change, polls show wide lead for New Democracy
PoliticsGreek Politicsand To Potami have indicated they are willing to support the change, New Democracy has linked the restructuring to Greeks abroad being allowed to vote in national elections. The government has so far shown... that New Democracy has moved into clear majority territory. According to the Pulse poll for Skai TV
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Saving Angela Merkel with the help of Alexis Tsipras
Agora. As has been argued by some in the past (including the author of this piece), Greece and Germany both... relationship Tsipras has established with Merkel since leaving behind him the confrontational approach he... are the ones that have to pay the highest price. It has become ever more apparent that they are citizens
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With eye on elections, Tsipras talks up public sector hirings
PoliticsGreek Politics) of civil servants. The government has indicated that the majority of hirings will be in the education... for these programmes has been secured via the EU-finance National Strategic Reference Framework, or ESPA as it is known in Greece. It is clear that Tsipras has decided to opt for the tried and tested method
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Constitutional changes and Tsipras's leadership under scrutiny
PoliticsGreek Politicsto introduce regarding the diaspora vote. Interior Minister Takis Theodorikakos believes that he has achieved... but these complaints were rejected on Wednesday. The opposition party has proposed an alternative system... are needed for this article to be altered. SYRIZA has made this something of a flagship issue
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Mitsotakis eyes multiple benefits after nominating top judge to be first female president
PoliticsGreek PoliticsKyriakos Mitsotakis has named Council of State president Katerina Sakellaropoulou as his party’s... that gained international coverage. Secondly, Mitsotakis has chosen a figure that is not from “New... Ministry six months after scrapping, a move that is seen by many as an admission that New Democracy has
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Govt faces pushback from food service sector over re-opening rules
PoliticsGreek PoliticsMitsotakis is trying to broaden the political agenda to non-pandemic related issues. He has announced... era. Mitsotakis has invited all political leaders to join him in the plaque’s unveiling in central... to the party or the radical/extreme left. SYRIZA has always denied any connection to the incident
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