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Explanations sought as PM backs away from prospect of early elections
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe fallout from Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s insistence this week that he does not have plans to call... on Wednesday and in a radio interview on Thursday, it was thought that he was minded to call elections... and call snap elections, his comments this week, including the suggestion that seeing out the four
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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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Opposition keeps pressure on Mitsotakis as surveillance issue sends ripples through ND
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the preliminary findings of the committee’s investigation this week was accompanied by a call to national... and nephew, Grigoris Dimitriadis. The call is backed by two fifths of the committee’s membership..., while there are reports that the call for early elections resurfaced once again but was quickly
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Tsipras positions SYRIZA as defender of democratic institutions amid row over police corruption
PoliticsGreek PoliticsSYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras has launched the party’s election campaign with a call for the defence of democratic values against what he describes as an abuse of power by New Democracy. The call... Parliament and call elections immediately, threatening that SYRIZA would abstain from any votes until
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Mitsotakis backs Ukraine as Athens tries to balance position with Trump administration
PoliticsForeign Policythat “nothing can be decided for Ukraine without Ukraine”. Following his telephone call with Ukraine’s president Volodimir Zelensky on Saturday, Kyriakos Mitsotakis said that he would join today’s leaders’ call... Trump’s call Zelensky a dictator. He said that the US president has a special way to express himself
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Predator row deepens as Tsipras publishes ideological roadmap for new party
PoliticsGreek Politicscall for his resignation. The institutional tension spilled directly into party politics. A fierce... and the ecological sensibility of the Greens. “Some call this management,” it concludes. “We call
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Concerns for SYRIZA mount as brief election campaign gets underway
PoliticsGreek Politicspartner, Independent Greeks (ANEL) narrowly failing to enter Parliament. Some crumbs of comfort
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Coalition in rush to wrap up pending bailout issues
EconomyProgrammethat the junior coalition party (Independent Greeks – ANEL) did not vote in the relevant Committee
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Deal with lenders buys coalition more time but not internal calm
PoliticsGreek PoliticsIndependent Greeks (ANEL) MPs, cannot be ruled out but the legislation does not appear to be in danger
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Newsletter 52 - 20/11/2015
after Stathis Panagoulis of SYRIZA and Nikos Nikolopoulos of Independent Greeks (ANEL) decided
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