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New Democracy comes out fighting against Tempe censure motion
PoliticsGreek Politicswas less than supportive, predicting that the motion would result in a “cockfight”. Following Androulakis’s announcement of the initiative, Kasselakis called on the prime minister to resign rather than... Marinakis, whose newspaper To Vima published the latest claims of a Tempe cover-up which apparently
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Governing party MPs rally around ex-transport minister to fend off opposition attacks
PoliticsGreek Politicsas hapless and compromised political opportunists rather than respond to their questions on the railway... been to attack the opposition’s motives rather than defend themselves against the charges laid out... to trying to tie Androulakis to To Vima proprietor, shipowner Vangelis Marinakis, the spokesman has
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Androulakis shuffles pack in bid to leave SYRIZA behind and close gap on ND
PoliticsGreek Politicsthan handing out portfolios as he had done previously, Androulakis wants to show that he is focussed... industry rather than tourism, via strategic investments in strategic locations.... will describe. A report in Sunday’s To Vima indicated that the plan, which will be overseen
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Mitsotakis tries to move on from Samaras row but more fallout may follow
PoliticsGreek Politicsfacing tighter fiscal conditions than when it previously provided such handouts. Also, it is possible... of senior officials whose political ideology is closer to Samaras’s rather than the PM’s. Samaras’s future Since giving his contentious interview to Sunday’s To Vima, Samaras has not provided any
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Opposition calls on PM to change tack over Gaza as ND faces new corruption probe
PoliticsGreek Politicsparties in Greece. New Left went as step further than PASOK in condemning Israel’s actions... the Mitsotakis administration more exposed politically withing Greece than it has been since the war in Gaza... carried out by Good Affairs for To Vima last May found that 63 pct of Greeks had a negative or “probably
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In hindsight it would have been nicer
Agoraeurozone partners were willing to make available rather than how much financing was required to get... unaffected. Considering the costs of the alternative, the 80 billion euros of bilateral loans... and National Central banks across the eurozone, 53 billion of bilateral loans from the first program
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Foreign minister's visit to Ankara sparks hope of new era in Greek-Turkish ties
PoliticsForeign Policyis build bridges, rather than throw stones at each other,” Kotzias told the Turkish leader. Erdogan..., another joint committee will make a review of the progress of the bilateral agreements that have... the political will to solve bilateral issues. Athens also made a point of stressing that it means what it says
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Central government debt climbs to 328.3 bln in Q2 on bailout tranche of 7.5 bln
EconomyMacroeconomyFacility (GLF) bilateral loans of the first programme, 130.9 billion to the second (EFSF) programme... and bilateral loans, including those granted by the European Investment Bank (EIB), fell by 140 million... by residual maturity remained almost stable with long-term (more than 5 years) debt making up around
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Central government debt edges up to 326.5 billion in Q1
EconomyMacroeconomy, of which 52.9 billion relate to the Greek Loan Facility’s (GLF) bilateral loans from the first programme... retain more than 69 percent of Greece’s central government debt in Q1. Greek government bonds (GGBs.... The breakdown also showed that special purpose and bilateral loans, including those granted by the European
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Athens unmoved as relations with Russia become chillier
PoliticsForeign PolicyBilateral relations between the Greek government and Russia's President Vladimir Putin appear... to certain stories in the Greek media, the first crack in bilateral relations appeared. Greek... than in having talks with the Greek government. No official agreements, no new business plans
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