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  1. Coalition's attempt to defend handling of fatal blaze fails to stem criticism

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    deaths and amid growing calls for officials to resign. Government spokesman Dimitris Tzanakopoulos... of responsibility. Toskas revealed during Thursday’s press conference that he had offered to resign

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  2. Foreign minister quits government, heaping pressure on Tsipras
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    stead for the future. One of the interpretations given to his decision to resign now is that because..., though, the most significant aspect of his decision to resign is that Tsipras accepted Kotzias’s

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  3. Mitsotakis tries to stem subsidy scandal damage as opposition smells blood
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    officials have also been quick to dampen rumours that more senior figures could be forced to resign over... in the exchanges and the two members of the cabinet have no reason to resign. Battle for votes

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  4. Current account deficit widens to 404 mln in March

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    that this improvement is largely due to a lower net oil import bill, reflecting the decrease in oil prices. Net payments for ship purchases also fell. However, excluding the impact from oil and ships.... The contraction in the services surplus by 22.1 percent is mainly attributed to lower net receipts from

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  5. July credit contraction at 1.5 pct, slowest since Aug 2011
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    and was the last sub-2 percent reading. After a short-lived net addition of 430 million euros in June, lending flow turned negative in July with net deductions at 607.4 million, which is the second highest reading so far this year. July flow stems from household and corporate lending net deductions of 382

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  6. Greek current account deficit widens by 27.4 pct in Feb
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    , the improvement in the goods’ balance mainly reflects a lower net oil import bill, on the back of the oil prices’ drop. Moreover, net payment for ships also decreased YoY. It is noteworthy that excluding...’ surplus by 18.2 percent YoY primarily reflects lower net receipts from construction services

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  7. Approach to protests, policing poses a new quandary for government

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    portfolio from the Interior Ministry to the Justice Ministry amid concerns that Panousis and Interior Minister Nikos Voutsis did not see eye to eye. It was notable that Justice Minister Nikos

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  8. Will Tsipras move to centre stage to secure deal with lenders?
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    within the government, even leading to thoughts of removing Panousis’s portfolio from the Interior.... Interior Minister Nikos Voutsis and Alternate Minister for European Affairs Nikos Hountis

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  9. Launch of new movement highlights fragmentation of Greek centre-left

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    Former Interior Minister Yiannis Ragoussis is set to launch a new centre-left movement on Wednesday, highlighting the fragmentation in this part of the Greek political spectrum. With PASOK... to liberalise the taxi sector while he was interior, and then transport, minister between 2009 and 2011. He

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  10. Bond issue decision expected as clock ticks down
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    in September 2015, when then-Interior Minister Panayiotis Kouroublis asked local authorities to list... Accounting Office because of fiscal concerns. It has been revived under the current Interior Minister Panos

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