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Mitsotakis urges ND renewal, challenges PM over surplus
PoliticsGreek Politicsto a strike by journalists. “Renewal is a necessity,” Mitsotakis told his party’s 76 lawmakers. “The renewal... within the party’s structure. A total of 100 new members have been added over the last few months, many... a work in progress. The New Democracy leader also resubmitted to Parliament this week his party’s
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Athens expects 800 mln sub-tranche as review talks progress
EconomyProgrammeThe European Stability Mechanism’s (ESM) board of directors is due to meet on Thursday... the summer. Meanwhile, talks are continuing in Athens between the institution’s mission chiefs... the second review was concluded in June. This sub-tranche will also go towards settling the state’s
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SYRIZA feeling internal pressure due to handling of refugees
PoliticsGreek Politicsto the position taken by the party’s political secretariat after a meeting on Monday. The “53,” who often... of the refugee crisis, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s recent visit to the USA and the implementation... Minister Yiannis Mouzalas came under severe criticism at Monday’s meeting. This apparently led him
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New overdue tax obligations up by 706 mln in September, total at 98.75 bln
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece’s new tax debt rose by 706 million euros in September, declining from August’s increase... in September to stand at 1.32 billion euros compared to August’s figure of 14.7 million. With around... of this year’s total (7.32 billion) relates to tax categories. The remainder is related to the four key
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PASOK emerges victorious from first round of centre-left leadership vote
PoliticsGreek Politicsof voting on Sunday to elect a common leader for Greece’s centre-left parties. With the majority... Giorgos Kaminis, who has enjoyed the Socialist party’s support on the two occasions he was elected... seeming to have benefited from the support of PASOK’s traditional, and ageing support, as well
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ND puts pressure on Kammenos, a potential weak link in coalition
PoliticsGreek Politicsso. SYRIZA MPs voted with lawmakers from Kammenos’s party in September to reject opposition demands for an inquiry into the ANEL chief’s exchanges with Makis Yiannousakis, a shipowner convicted... victory in Sunday’s ballot and the strong turnout in both votes, which she won comfortably. Gennimata
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Coalition battles it out with opposition over ammunition sale
PoliticsGreek Politicsfactory in northern Greece, because the goal was for key players to profit personally. The government’s... came to Kammenos’s defence after asking for the debate, originally scheduled for last Thursday. He... 100,000. Monday’s debate only managed to add to the confusion regarding the transactions rather than
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Tussle over arms deal sets tone for polarised politics
PoliticsGreek Politicswas produced during Monday’s debate. The government had the chance to stress its claims that the middleman... involved in the affair, including Greece’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia Polychronis Polychroniou, Papadopoulos, Sfakianakis, Kammenos and Greek military officials to appear before Parliament’s armaments
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Talks on Macedonia name issue to be ramped up but Kammenos unmoved
PoliticsForeign Policythat the new diplomatic initiatives should ideally be completed long before NATO’s Summit in 11-12 July... meeting of UN’s special envoy with the two negotiators focused on issues related to the methodology that will be followed in this diplomatic process. Despite his optimism, Nimetz also said that it’s
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Differences over Macedonia name issue put coalition unity under scrutiny
PoliticsGreek PoliticsMinistry is engaged in talks with Skopje based on Greece’s longstanding position that the neighbouring... have yet to show their hand on the matter. It would not be the first time that SYRIZA and Kammenos’s... that he would not accept the use of “Macedonia” in any form as part of the neighbouring country’s name
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