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Kammenos's odd partnership with Tsipras still holding together
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreeks (ANEL) over the weekend, while also managing to highlight the odd nature of the cooperation... disciplinary measures. The ANEL leader has become indispensable to Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras thanks to his... both in his awarding of government positions to ANEL MPs (five of the nine lawmakers received
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Coalition's ideological contrasts highlighted but Kammenos quashes rift talk
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDefence Minister Panos Kammenos, who leads the junior coalition partner Independent Greeks (ANEL... from Archbishop Ieronymos and ANEL leader Kammenos, who maintains very close ties with the church.... It was pointed out that an ANEL MP, Dimitris Kammenos, last week voted against the provision
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Newsletter 156 -23/03/2018
office to insist, as he has done before, that SYRIZA and Independent Greeks (ANEL) will remain together “until the end.” The ANEL leader dismissed the claims of a rift, saying it was the work of “those...-left, the prospect of any party jumping into government with SYRIZA if ANEL decides it has had enough
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Ankara tension and Macedonia name talks weigh down coalition
PoliticsGreek Politicsalso indicated that a comment by an MP from junior coalition partner Independent Greeks (ANEL... and ANEL leader Panos Kammenos. The tension between the two governing parties on foreign policy issues... the term “Macedonia.” He went as far as saying that ANEL would do whatever they could to stop
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Is the cost of Greece's public sector soaring again?
EconomyFeaturesAs Greece approaches the end of its bailout programme, claims are emerging that the SYRIZA-ANEL... risen by 600 million euros since the SYRIZA/ANEL government took office. This claim is supported... and cronyism are somewhat harder to dispel. The SYRIZA-ANEL government has raised eyebrows on several
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Fallout from Macedonia name deal sparks turmoil for coalition and opposition
PoliticsGreek Politics(ANEL). Apart from trying to isolate Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and SYRIZA, New Democracy is also trying to put ANEL in a difficult position by having to justify why their MPs will vote... to the government by forcing some ANEL MPs not to back the coalition in the no-confidence vote. The move by New
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No let-up in intensity of SYRIZA-New Democracy clash over name settlement
PoliticsGreek Politicsif they come to power. ANEL Junior coalition partner Independent Greeks (ANEL) continues... also resigned from the party on Monday. Their complaint was that ANEL leader and Defence Minister... is against the name deal with Skopje. Contact between the outgoing ANEL MP, now an independent lawmaker
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ND defends economic pledges as Kammenos repeats walkout threat
PoliticsGreek Politicson Monday, Tsipras’s governing partner, Independent Greeks (ANEL) leader Panos Kammenos, repeated his... not support the stance taken by Kammenos and given ANEL’s slim chances of making it into the next Parliament... in return for their inclusion on the leftist party’s ticket at the next elections. ANEL MP Kostas
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Tsipras seeks assurances that coalition will remain united for time being
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAfter days of mounting tension between SYRIZA and its coalition partner, Independent Greeks (ANEL... the right to ask for a no-confidence vote in Greek Parliament from mid-December onwards. An ANEL... but would not back the government in a no-confidence vote. ANEL MP Thanasis Papachristopoulos
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SYRIZA and ND keep name dispute alive as poll shows narrower gap
PoliticsGreek PoliticsIndependent Greeks (ANEL), repeated his threat on Thursday to quit from the cabinet if the Prespes... that the ANEL leader made his comments because he and his party are “politically dead.” He added that Kammenos is wrong to blame his party’s decline on the Macedonia name deal, arguing that ANEL’s
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