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Farm subsidy scandal prompts disquiet in ruling party, encourages opposition
PoliticsGreek Politicshuman intervention, crop checks done by satellites, livestock counted with modern tools rather than... those involving constituents in Serres. She has responded by demanding a preliminary parliamentary inquiry, saying she wants to prove her innocence. Former minister Spilios Livanos is also named
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Could Greece's immigration reforms have an impact on upcoming elections?
Societygranted “skyrocketed” from 14,178 to 33,487. Interior Minister Alexis Haritsis responded by describing..., and that “the Pakistanis are receiving similar messages in Pakistani” (sic). “Very interesting elections!!”, she... inhabitants in 2017. The Interior Ministry publishes more detailed statistics on citizenship
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Mitsotakis starts second term, prepares to name cabinet and launch reforms amid far-right rise
PoliticsGreek Politicswith responsibility of overseeing the government’s role in Parliament. Former Interior Minister Makis Voridis... to Education, which Niki Kerameus will leave to take over as the new interior minister. Former Citizens... health minister, while Olga Kefaloyianni is set for a comeback as tourism minister, a position she has
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Tempe and subsidy scandal back in spotlight as MPs prepare to vote on latest probe
PoliticsGreek Politicsaround the naming of the PM among the Tempe suspects. She said that since the motion, which was based on a proposal she had drafted, was submitted she has been warned that her safety, as well as he family’s, is at risk. Karystianou claims that she was approached by people she did not know who
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PASOK elects new leader, hopes to stop slide and regroup
PoliticsGreek Politicsat the Defence, Health, Education and Interior and as Attica-Piraeus Prefect. She is not expected to make... deputy defence minister did not present any specific plan regarding how she plans to revive PASOK’s
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Cabinet reshuffle leaves some bitterness within SYRIZA
PoliticsGreek Politicsleaving Panos Skourletis outside the fold, which led to him being appointed interior minister after his... Katrougalos’s office to actually being in charge of the whole department. The fact that she is the youngest... and the government’s efforts to restore some rights. However, she did insist that there is no discussion
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PASOK launches attempt to form alliance that would rival SYRIZA
PoliticsGreek Politicslater this year. She suggested that a vote should be held in October to elect the alliance’s first... last week. Ex-Interior Minister Yiannis Ragousis attended the meeting, taking a different approach... to challenge Gennimata, who has failed to convince some within the party that she can offer anything
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Splits and alliances on leaders' minds as thoughts turn to next elections
PoliticsGreek Politics, that Interior Minister Panos Skourletis recently proposed changes to the vast Athens “B” electoral precinct... to KINAL. KINAL and its leader, Gennimata, are in an equally uncomfortable position. She wants... contradictory approach by Gennimata towards SYRIZA. Shortly after saying that she wanted to work
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Saving Angela Merkel with the help of Alexis Tsipras
Agoraregistered applicant is caught by the police in Germany or seeks to enter the country, he or she can... interior minister – Horst Seehofer – from the junior coalition partner CSU had threatened... political representatives threw Merkel the lifeline she so desperately needed. The Greek prime minister’s
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More fires at Moria add to pressure for effective response to asylum crisis
PoliticsGreek Politicsof Migration Minister Notis Mitarakis, Interior Minister Panagiotis Thedorikakos, and the head... posted on Twitter that she was “deeply saddened” by the events at Moria, adding that the Commission’s... to visit the island on Thursday. On Wednesday, Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johanssen said that she
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