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Tsipras and Kammenos try to fend off rumours of deepening rift
PoliticsGreek Politicsbetween SYRIZA and Independent Greeks (ANEL) over the last few weeks. This has been triggered... speculation about whether the SYRIZA-ANEL partnership has run its course, given that Kammenos said his... and ANEL have also taken different positions following the furore caused by Ivan Savidis’s foray onto
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Newsletter 178 -12/10/2018
MPs, believes it will be able to call on the support of 2-3 ANEL deputies, at least four MPs from...Kammenos rocks coalition boat SYRIZA-ANEL alliance under stress as defence minister seems to follow... SYRIZA and Independent Greeks (ANEL) can last much longer. During his visit to Washington
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Tsipras seen clinching 151 votes as doubts surface about name deal
PoliticsGreek PoliticsKammenos and his Independent Greeks (ANEL) party from the coalition means that barring any last-minute... on Monday, three ANEL MPs (Elena Kountoura, Vassilis Kokkalis and Thanassis Papachristopoulos) had... of confidence. Kostas Zouraris of ANEL is also expected to support the government. Given that Deputy
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National Bank follows other Greek lenders' by opting for capital increase
EconomyBankingAs had been rumoured, National Bank of Greece’s board (NBG) decided on April 16 to call... and b) Enhance its capital base in light of the negative impact arising from the Basel II fully... Basel III rules until 2017. NBG said the combined capital enhancement of 3.54 billion
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Tsipras and Kammenos set aside speculation and focus on coalition's key goals
PoliticsGreek Politics’s office to insist, as he has done before, that SYRIZA and Independent Greeks (ANEL) will remain... prominent issues. The ANEL leader dismissed the claims of a rift, saying it was the work of “those who..., the prospect of any party jumping into government with SYRIZA if ANEL decides it has had enough
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Merkel backing for name deal overshadowed by coalition leaders' crucial talks
PoliticsGreek PoliticsMinister Panos Kammenos, who leads the junior coalition partner Independent Greeks (ANEL... to withdraw his support for the government, he will call a confidence vote in Parliament and if he..., especially if he does not have any support from ANEL MPs. SYRIZA currently has 145 lawmakers
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Tsipras and Kammenos vow to stick together until further notice
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAssembly, but not before publicly making up with his coalition partner Independent Greeks (ANEL) leader... that had begun between SYRIZA and ANEL amid fears that this could detract from the government’s... four years, there have been several occasions on which SYRIZA and ANEL appeared to be veering off
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SYRIZA encounters first obstacles in governing with minority of MPs
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreeks (ANEL) earlier this month. In a vote of Parliament’s public organisations committee... call for the government in the full assembly, where a vote on the bill aiming to bolster the role... of an ANEL MP during the “in principle” ballot meant that there was a danger of the draft law not having
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Differences over Macedonia name issue put coalition unity under scrutiny
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDemocracy to call for the government to clarify its stance on the matter. Conservative MP, Dora... party, Independent Greeks (ANEL), have failed to see eye to eye on an issue. There have been occasions since 2015 when ANEL has refused to support draft legislation in Parliament and there has never
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Despite ongoing row with SYRIZA, Kammenos not preparing for early departure
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe issue indicates that despite the noise being created around the disagreement between ANEL and SYRIZA... a replacement for ANEL in Parliament if he wants to continue governing, while Kammenos knows... This does not mean that the ANEL leader’s effort to create a fuss will cease. It seems that he
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