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Newsletter 318 - 26/11/2021
energy subsidy in order to keep up with escalating price rises, while also accusing him of selling off... the alternate interior minister, former health minister Vassilis Kikilias (now tourism minister
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Newsletter 343 - 24/06/2022
. Greece also spends more on the public sector, defence and public order, while it spends less... and to appoint a caretaker Interior Minister to oversee the election process. The opposition party
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Phone-tapping scandal causing ripple effect across political scene
PoliticsGreek Politics, as an escape from the mounting pressure caused by the spying scandal. However, in order to reach TIF... as interior minister in a New Democracy government more than a decade ago, is considered to still
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SYRIZA, PASOK leaders prepare responses to stark choice presented by PM
PoliticsGreek Politics, was placed under surveillance can cite secrecy restrictions in order not to answer questions about... Interior Minister Stelios Petsas in a TV interview, when he suggested that Greeks will have to adapt over
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Election speculation gathers steam while surveillance claims mount
PoliticsGreek Politicsin order to maximise his popularity ratings. Opting for a spring date, it is argued, would also allow... currently favoured by the prime minister. Last week, Interior Minister Makis Voridis, whose
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Wildfires provide familiar test for government
PoliticsGreek Politicsto facilitate the vote for diaspora Greeks in order to increase its support. However, the government... elections. Interior Minister Niki Kerameus said that removing the barriers was “a matter of respect.” Many
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Government turns attention to migration, hoping to avoid another front before EP vote
PoliticsGreek Politics, the cost-of-living crisis and law and order, Mitsotakis will not want to leave himself exposed... Kroesser, state secretary at the Interior Ministry, in Alexandroupolis, northeastern Greece
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Samaras plots early bailout exit, plays down debt relief as Merkel remains tight-lipped
PoliticsGreek Politicsset by the troika in order to trigger some form of debt relief that would grant the New Democracy... of the focal points of any election campaign. While the German chancellor said she could see the first “tender shoots” of recovery in Greece, she refrained from commenting on whether Samaras’s plan to exit
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Rifts in New Democracy as Samaras vows to stay as leader
PoliticsGreek PoliticsBakoyannis, ex-Public Order Minister Nikos Dendias , former Administrative Reform Minister Kyriakos... had afterwards resigned. However, it is doubtful whether she would be willing to mount a leadership challenge following her failed attempt in 2009, when she was beaten by Samaras. One of the interesting
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Agreement creates array of political challenges for Tsipras, who must move fast
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreek Parliament. This will be a tall order for the coalition, although there have been reports... the bills will come to Parliament is certain to irk Parliamentary Speaker Zoe Konstantopoulou. She... prominent and has indicated she may be willing to head her own party. Greece has to pass this legislation
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