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Reshuffle rumours surface as Tsipras prepares plan for autumn
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Alexis Tsipras has been meeting his ministers ahead of the brief summer break... to conduct a cabinet reshuffle before the autumn. There are two key issues that Tsipras has to address... of the third review, which is due to begin in October/November. The government has made a point of saying
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SYRIZA tests PASOK waters with talk of possible alliance
PoliticsGreek Politicsreligion and other ideological issues. Kammenos has repeatedly insisted that the two parties... SYRIZA that perhaps the alliance between the leftists and the right-wing nationalists of ANEL has run its course. This has come to fore since the policy-making focus moves to issues that are not linked
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Greek demographic ratios among the worst in Europe
Societyin Europe with 1.3 children per woman. This pattern has remained in place for at least the last... the last wave of emigration which occurred in the 1970s, Greece this time around has lost large... is currently far too low to replace the population it has lost to emigration. The country’s fertility
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Investors voice concerns about delays to Hellenikon as mine talks falter
EconomyFeaturesthe pending actions clearly in a written statement. This is the first time that the consortium has released such a document. The consortium that has won the right to build offices, shopping centres and apartments on the site is paying some 900 million euros for the land and has pledged another 8 billion euros
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Gennimata handed task of transforming PASOK into broader centre-left alliance
PoliticsGreek Politicsthose that have shown an interest in the revival of the centre-left, Gennimata also has the task... currently has a comfortable lead in the opinion polls, fails to gain an outright majority. One... that the pair could reach "an honest understanding" about important issues. So far, there has been
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Differences over Macedonia name issue put coalition unity under scrutiny
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe coalition has come under pressure from the opposition to clarify its stance on negotiations... it has a majority in Parliament and that snap elections would have to be called. PASOK and To Potami... occasions since 2015 when ANEL has refused to support draft legislation in Parliament and there has never
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Coalition turns focus to bribery claims, eyes damage to opposition
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor the setting of prices in other parts of the European Union. It has been known since last year that Greek authorities have been investigating the activities of the company, which has also been probed for bribery in other countries. South Korea, for instance, has already fined the company for kickbacks
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Football chairman's actions threaten to blow coalition off course again
PoliticsGreek Politicsimplications, which emanated from a rather unlikely source: Greek football. The local game has long been... a refereeing decision has put the coalition in a tight spot. Russian-Greek businessman Savvidis reacted... because of its owner’s links to the current government. Savvidis has cultivated a close
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Coalition's feud with shipowner shows no sign of de-escalation
PoliticsGreek PoliticsTa Nea and To Vima into “rubbish dumps,” adding to the tension between the two sides, which has been..., lies and orders of a businessman who has been charged with drug dealing,” the statement added. One... it clear that he has not yet been convicted. However, the response is not designed to defuse the situation
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Newsletter 164 -01/06/2018
premier Zoran Zaev indicated on Wednesday that Skopje believes it has an “agreement in principle” with Athens but Tsipras’s office insisted that no deal has been reached yet. The statement came after New... a debt restructuring package the eurozone lenders will put together will be, since the Fund has been one
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