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House of cards (The rise and fall of Akis Tsochatzopoulos)
Agorasurprises life may throw at you. The apartment on Dionysiou Areopagitou Street was just one of many..., voters resigned themselves into believe the he was one the untouchables that would get away... various ministerial posts – interior, defence, transport, public order, development, labour and public
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Scars for coalition, questions for SYRIZA after confidence vote
PoliticsGreek Politics, suffered the embarrassment of one of its MPs voting for the motion. Apart from the rebel lawmaker... Parliament in order to pass laws to meet troika targets. One of the interesting features of the debate... that the government attracted 153 votes of support. Tzakri, a former deputy interior minister, was not a leading
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PASOK unites forces with Greek "Olive Tree" for EP elections but will it be enough?
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) in Brussels and Strasbourg. One issue still pending for the alliance is who will head the ticket for the May elections. Former Interior Minister Tassos Giannitsis has been touted as the most likely candidate. This, however, highlights one
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You can call it reform if you like
Agora. Nevertheless, even if we are to take the government’s argument at face value, there is one niggling..., former Interior Minister and current New Democracy MP. Pavlopoulos has spent the last few years publicly justifying his actions in government. He is one of several staunch defenders of Karamanlis’s
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Searching for electoral manifestos and overcoming voting obstacles in Greece
Agora. However, one of the most important constituencies to be addressed in these elections, namely first-time... real economy is particularly acute in the small and medium-sized enterprise sector. One... been added to electoral registers by the Interior Ministry. For citizens who are prevented from
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Newsletter 22 - 03/04/2015
, 555.6 million relates to the one-off presubscription fee the HFSF received from Greek banks in 2012... to be at the point where they are now. On the one hand, there are the frustrated and increasingly... Sakellaridis also played down the comments from Interior Minister Nikos Voutsis and Labour Minister
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Tsipras keeps bailout issues in safe hands but fails to inspire with new cabinet
PoliticsGreek Politics, a former army general. Toskas is one of several ex-PASOK members in the government. There is no change... in particular. As mentioned earlier, the new cabinet mostly gives the impression of being one that covers... as health minister. His predecessor, Panayiotis Kouroublis, was moved across to the Interior Ministry
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Greece left isolated on migrant crisis, with bailout talks finely poised
PoliticsGreek PoliticsMouzalas went into an informal meeting of European Union interior ministers on Monday on the back of reports that Athens was to receive a new warning (just a few weeks after the last one) that it could.... No one talking about a "suspension of" or "exclusion from" Schengen – no such possibility exists. We
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Pressure on Greece to stem migrant flow puts strain on EU ties
PoliticsGreek Politicsof refugees and migrants to northern and central Europe. EU interior ministers urged Greece to have the hot spots ready by the end of February. Only one, on Lesvos, has been completed so far. The EU hopes... but it is clear that one way or another Greece is going to have to hold a much larger number of migrants
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Greek effort to heal rift with Balkan neighbours may have come too late
PoliticsForeign Policyon these issues, which is one of the key reasons behind Skopje’s decision to close the borders with Greece... in the response from Athens is one of the factors that led to the cooperation between Austria... with suspicion and tension, the foreign and interior ministers of Greece’s neighbours accepted
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