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Turkey closes borders, Greece keeps up pressure
PoliticsForeign Policyissued by the Interior Ministry, the private Dogan news agency reported. The Greek government... Nikos Dendias continues to hold telephone talks with a number of his EU and non-EU counterparts... choice as he comes to terms with the dangers for his country’s public health. “The land and rail border
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Greece gets new finance minister but old guard dominates cabinet reshuffle
PoliticsGreek Politics. The only changes at the ministries which hold pivotal roles in Greece’s adjustment program were Nikos..., Yiannis Michelakis, at the Interior Ministry. Makis Voridis, briefly Infrastructure Minister... of the dangers of a euro exit: However, one of the key challenges for Hardouvelis will be to handle
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Newsletter 52 - 20/11/2015
after Stathis Panagoulis of SYRIZA and Nikos Nikolopoulos of Independent Greeks (ANEL) decided...-building within Europe is also a problem for Greece. EU interior ministers were due to agree on Friday... the environment in which Greece finds itself in relation to the refugee crisis and what potential dangers
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Athens chided over asylum process but complex set of obstacles in way
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor Europe Nikos Xydakis claims that Greece had been offered up to 400 officers from the European..., a spokesman for Germany’s Interior Ministry, who told the Financial Times that Berlin offered 200... because of concerns about the dangers they will face there. This point was emphasised by comments
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Newsletter 277 -11/12/2020
PM rebuffs Covid-19 criticism Mitsotakis defends govt stance but is forced to extend some measures until Jan After being forced to extend Covid-19 restrictions into January, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis tried to defend this week his, and his gover...
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Will Tsipras move to centre stage to secure deal with lenders?
PoliticsGreek Politics. Interior Minister Nikos Voutsis and Alternate Minister for European Affairs Nikos Hountis... within the government, even leading to thoughts of removing Panousis’s portfolio from the Interior... Nikos Pappas and Deputy Prime Minister Yiannis Dragasakis. There is another group that does not have
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New Year reshuffle brings more MPs into cabinet, keeps key ministers in post
PoliticsGreek Politicstheir posts. These include Finance Minister Christos Staikouras, Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias... the deputy agriculture minister. Interior Minister Takis Thedorikakos has also been left out of the new... Petsas has been appointed Alternate Interior Minister, to be replaced by Christos Tarantilis
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Tsipras seeks to capitalise on bailout exit, build platform for elections
PoliticsGreek PoliticsMinister after Nikos Toskas resigned in the wake of the disastrous wildfire in Mati last month... that Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos, Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias and Defence Minister Panos Kammenos
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Govt sets out fire compensation scheme in first step to overcome destruction
PoliticsGreek Politicsthan 100 people dying in the Mati wildfire in 2018. Then, as the main opposition party, New Democracy demanded the resignation of key officials. Eventually, Citizens’ Protection Minister Nikos Toskas...’ Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis and Deputy Civil Protection Minister Nikos Hardalias had
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Political tension ramps up as Tempe anniversary approaches
PoliticsGreek Politicsin the SYRIZA government during its controversial handling deadly Mati wildfire of 2018. With less than... leaders, accusing PASOK leader Nikos Androulakis of spreading conspiracy theories and undermining... and Defence Minister Nikos Dendias have moved to silence rumours of a rift between them. The two men
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