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Kammenos antics put extra pressure on SYRIZA's minority govt
PoliticsGreek PoliticsScientific Council rejected a request from the Independent Greeks (ANEL) leader for a change to the rule... elected with the party in question. ANEL currently has six lawmakers, but one was elected... Papachristopoulos, who voted for the Macedonia name deal. This would leave ANEL without an official
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Surveillance hearings in Athens and Brussels highlight contrasting approaches to issue
PoliticsGreek Politicsto call PASOK leader Nikos Androulakis, former EYP head Panagiotis Kontoleon and representatives of two... to call the PM’s former general secretary Grigoris Dimitriadis, who acted as the political supervisor... keen to call both Dimitriadis and the former heads of EYP, who had invoked secrecy laws to avoid
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Tsipras forges ahead with referendum as lenders hold back, wait for result
PoliticsGreek Politicshis call for a “No” vote, repeating his belief that this would help the government reach a better deal... would not implement the deal but would then call national elections. However, it is difficult... complications is extremely pressing. The indications for Sunday’s vote so far is that will be a close call
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Athens sees multiple defence, geopolitical benefits in pact with France
PoliticsForeign Policyas well as one allowing autonomous action, if circumstances call for it. This is particularly evident... sides to the negotiating table to resolve their differences, or to agree to binding international...French President Emmanuel Macron and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis signed in Paris
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Boosted by polls, PM uses Iran war to reassert control, shut down election and reshuffle talk
PoliticsGreek Politicsinsistence that he will neither call early elections nor reshuffle his cabinet, even as New Democracy enjoys..., SYRIZA at 5 pct, and Voice of Reason at 3 pct. The most consequential finding, however, may lie... as a practical application of the EU’s mutual defence clause. This framing aligns with Emmanuel Macron’s
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Warning signs for coalition after majority trimmed in multi-bill vote
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe SYRIZA and Independent Greeks (ANEL) parliamentary groups respectively. As we flagged earlier in the day, SYRIZA’s Stathis Panagoulis abstained from the vote and ANEL’s Nikos Nikolopoulos voted... that has been largely alien to him now; that of the enforcer. His coalition partner, ANEL leader Panos
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Coalition braces for Sunday demo, ponders impact on cooperation
PoliticsGreek Politics’s partner, Independent Greeks (ANEL), is backing the demonstration and continues to reject the use... Minister Panos Kammenos. The friction between SYRIZA and ANEL is visible, particularly with the verbal... been suggestions from some ANEL deputies that the party might withdraw from the coalition
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Newsletter 190 -18/01/2018
coalition partner Panos Kammenos, leader of Independent Greeks (ANEL). The ballot did not produce any... Papakosta (independent), Deputy Agricultural Development Minister Vassilis Kokkalis (ex-ANEL), Tourism Minister Elena Kountoura (ex-ANEL), Thanassis Papachristopoulos and Kostas Zouraris (both ANEL
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Small parties suffer as Parliament edges towards vote on name deal
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreeks/ANEL), Deputy Citizens’ Protection Minister Katerina Papakosta, Potami leader Stavros Theodorakis and his two remaining MPs Giorgos Mavrotas and Spyros Likoudis, former ANEL lawmaker Thanassis... behind it a trail of destruction as far as the Greek political scene is concerned. KINAL and ANEL Apart
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Greek Salad (made in Italy)
Agorawants). When Alexis Tsipras (of radical left SYRIZA) and Panos Kammenos (of far-right ANEL) came... in Europe that seemed to have stalled with the election of Emmanuel Macron to the French Presidency
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