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Government comes out swinging as tense week, building up to Tempe protests, begins
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGeorgiadis is one of the members of the cabinet that has done the heavy lifting over the past few days as the government tries to hit back against its opponents via the media. Another is Interior Minister..., at least one that is anti-government, well we probably live in different countries,” Georgiadis told Open
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Androulakis presents vision for fairer Greece in response to PM’s tax cuts
PoliticsGreek Politicsis pitching his vision for a fairer Greece than the one voters have seen evolve under the six-year... with other parties if PASOK wins the elections “even by one vote.” He would not be drawn on which... will shrink and two key ministries (Interior and Digital Governance) will merge into a single operations
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Amid publicity storm, Tsipras publishes 'Ithaca' and fuels speculation about new journey
PoliticsGreek Politicsalready achieved one of the main goals of this exercise - putting himself back in the spotlight after several months on the sidelines of Greek politics. It seems that one of the other aims...-Interior Minister Alexis Haritsis, who also refused. He insists he tried to ensure continuity
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PM insists on 3 pct election threshold, unveils plans to entice diaspora voters
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor entering Parliament will remain, as usual, at 3 pct” appears to remove one of the variables from... parties, including the one that Tempe campaigner Maria Karystianou is in the process of putting together... list to direct election by overseas voters. The Interior Ministry will be responsible
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Opposition demands assurances of non-involvement in Iran conflict
PoliticsGreek PoliticsLeaders to be summoned to agree a cross-party response to the crisis. Mitsotakis has insisted on one-on-one briefings with party leaders. A second strand of concern relates to the possible domestic... parliament approved the relevant provisions in the Interior Ministry's bill by a margin exceeding
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First round of local elections leave Greek politics finely balanced
PoliticsGreek Politicsis making the transformation from a party of opposition to one of power. New Democracy will instead... incumbent Giorgos Kaminis all the way. According to Interior Ministry projections Kaminis was expected
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Coalition caught between pleasing lenders and voters ahead of next troika review
PoliticsGreek PoliticsMinister Gikas Hardoiuvelis will propose splitting it into two parts. According to his plan, one part... measures. The new Interior Minister Argyris Dinopoulos recently argued that his party would lose votes
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Tsipras makes unpopular choice for president, with eye on political balance
PoliticsGreek Politicsbasis. Pavlopoulos is also closely allied to Karamanlis and is one of the few officials that speak...In a somewhat controversial choice, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras chose former Interior Minister Prokopis Pavlopoulos as his party's presidential candidate yesterday. There was a mixed reaction
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Parliament's bailout probe has potential to be politically toxic
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPavlopoulos, who was interior minister in Karamanlis’s government and one of the former New Democracy’s
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Creditors devise proposal in Berlin, Tsipras prepares ground in Athens
PoliticsGreek Politicstrigger the collapse of Greece’s first government led by a left-wing party. One of the factors... on to their seats if they quit their parties. On Saturday, Interior Minister Nikos Voutsis admitted
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