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  1. ND struggles to shift spotlight away from wiretapping fallout
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    . The conservatives’ attempts to shift the focus onto other matters was undermined on Thursday by one..., a former leading judge and one-time justice minister, to stoke conspiracy theories and play... underlined that achieving the end of the post-programme monitoring regime had been one of the government’s

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  2. PM brushes aside spying scandal, lowers expectations for handouts

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    International Fair (TIF). This was one of the main messages to emerge from the meeting as Mitsotakis told... was under the aegis of the Prime Minister’s office, was spying on one of Mitsotakis’s main rival... officials feel it would be wise for Mitsotakis to change the electoral law again, overriding the one his

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  3. Tailor-made Maastricht criteria for Greece?
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    , while the stock of debt should not exceed 60 percent of GDP. One of the first violations... numbers are based on “ongoing” fiscal operations, not including such one-time effects. Such an unusual...). In the multiple discussions on reforming the Maastricht Criteria, one guideline that almost all analysts

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  4. Turkey's new Libya MoU prompts swift reaction from Athens, which mulls further moves
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    and Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, the leader of one of two competing governments in divided Libya. He said.... “No one can ignore geography. No one can create a virtual world.” Shukry said that Dbeibah’s..., commenting on the Turkey-Libya memorandum. He also said that one of the principles of international law

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  5. ND aiming to capitalise on conviction for leading ex-SYRIZA minister
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    , the secretary of businessman Christos Kalogritsas, who submitted a bid for one of the TV licences... and ensure that at least one TV channel would favour the left-wing party in its coverage. According... that Alexis Tsipras and his team, of which Pappas was one of the most prominent members, could

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  6. Mitsotakis pledges more benefits in bid to tap SYRIZA strongholds

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    benefits for civil servants. Public sector employees with one child will receive a monthly bonus of 70... challenging OECD calculations suggesting that Greece is one of the few countries it monitors where real..., particularly for younger Greeks, as one of the key factors that proves the profits of growth under

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  7. Mitsotakis enters last week of campaign with confidence, high ratings
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    by one opinion poll after the other. Speaking during a televised news conference on Sunday, Mitsotakis... be moved around. He again identified the overhaul of the national health system as one of his main... to change the constitution on its own, insisting that the support of at least one more party would

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  8. Wildfire threat to air base puts government in embarrassing position
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    of Greece’s defence capabilities, including the purchase of new jets from the US, one of its most emblematic policies and one which has received strong public support. Against this backdrop, the sight of one of the country’s main air force bases being threatened by fire, forcing aircraft to scramble

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  9. PM claims victory as marriage equality law passes despite dissent in govt, opposition ranks
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    “present.” Fifty-one of the 158 MPs from the ruling party did not support the bill – 20 voted against and 31 abstained, including one minister and two deputy ministers – which passed with the support... and one voted “present”, while 11 of 32 PASOK MPs did not participate in the vote. Also, two of New

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  10. SYRIZA seizes on latest spyware reports to renew pressure on government

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    27 cases, EYP had made at least one request for the right to legally wiretap the individuals... for this deviation from democracy,” said SYRIZA’s spokesperson Voula Kehagia, reminding that one of the PM’s... by authorities last year that he was one of the Predator targets because of these financial transactions. “We

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