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Kammenos claims approval of name deal a make-or-break moment for coalition
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDefence Minister Panos Kammenos has prompted a new round of speculation about the coalition’s... has strongly criticised the compromise with Skopje. Kammenos’s calls for a super-majority were... for the name settlement to be adopted. Theodorakis has already made it clear that his party will back
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More changes needed to unlock private sector's potential, report says
EconomyFeaturesGreece has to take specific steps to unleash the potential of its business economy because... the bailouts. The authors believe, in this respect, that the crisis has not been used as an opportunity..., the nominal value added of the business economy in Greece has fallen by almost 38 percent in 2017
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Athens facing diplomatic developments on several fronts in September
PoliticsForeign Policy, before the ratification process has been completed. Before Greek MPs have their say, FYROM... the alliance under its temporary name, FYROM. Russia The name agreement has been one of the obvious... place as planned. Tsipras has been invited by Russian president Vladimir Putin to travel
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Tsipras planning for life without Kammenos
PoliticsGreek Politicssuggested that Tsipras has already begun work on a plan to get the Macedonia name deal through..., has also indicated he would back the name deal. This would give Tsipras 154 votes, which... has not yet backed a candidate. However, a comment made by Kotzias over the weekend did cause some
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Getting to the church on time
Agoraand healthcare sectors, would be a welcome development. However, this has to happen based on a clear.... It also has to be clear that it won’t be used as an excuse to return to the tactic of creating voter-clients in the public sector and disregarding the implications this has for the country’s finances
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Novartis affair moves back to political centre stage as accusations fly
PoliticsGreek PoliticsKalogirou issued a statement insisting that the justice system has the government’s full backing... targeting of specific judicial officials. Polakis defended his comments by saying that he has... not progressed. The latest bickering has been triggered by authorities pressing charges against
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Kammenos prepares to quit coalition amid ANEL unrest, issues to settle with PM
PoliticsGreek PoliticsANEL, has called a meeting of the party’s parliamentary group and executive committee on Wednesday... of the political divorce. Kammenos has been insisting for weeks now that he will quit the government... has been engaged in a public battle over the last few weeks. The ANEL chief seemed irked by the fact
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Newsletter 190 -18/01/2018
from To Potami, he is looking at getting a total of 152 MPs to back the deal. SYRIZA has 145... the deal. Also, there has been much speculation about what stance George Papandreou will take. The former... Tsipras the chance to convince voters that it has no future and that they should back SYRIZA
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SYRIZA's move to aid small parties puts spotlight on Kammenos leverage
PoliticsGreek PoliticsSYRIZA has indicated that it is willing to do a favour to its former coalition partner, Independent.... Parliamentary rules mean that once a party has less then five MPs in Parliament, it ceases to have... a permanent representation on parliamentary committees. Centrist To Potami has suffered this fate
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Tsipras halts bid to help smaller parties amid opposition criticism
PoliticsGreek Politicslike To Potami and Independent Greeks (ANEL). The former has been left with just four MPs after recent defections, while ANEL has six. The proposal prompted an immediate outcry from New Democracy... vehemently denied that he is being, or has ever been, blackmailed. He argued that the government’s
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