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Tsipras identifies first bills, domestic approval assured
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Alexis Tsipras outlined on Friday night the content of the first four draft laws... income pensioners which was not included in the statement made on Friday by the prime minister... residences from foreclosures. The prime minister said that the draft law would protect homes with a value
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Parliament's bailout probe has potential to be politically toxic
PoliticsGreek Politics. This means decisions taken under former prime ministers George Papandreou, Lucas Papademos and Antonis.... They also believe that SYRIZA is trying to give the former conservative prime minister, Costas Karamanlis, a free pass by not including his premiership in the period under investigation. Prime
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Eurogroup build-up dominated by internal friction over way forward
PoliticsGreek Politicsstatement are extremely low. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras chaired a meeting of his cabinet on Sunday... after the prime minister was caught doodling a ballot box on his notepad during a debate in Parliament... the weekend. Deputy Prime Minister Yiannis Dragasakis represented the government at the gathering
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Alexis's choice
Agoraof it is another matter, but the prime minister’s decision to shake up Greece’s negotiating team and to issue... of the more principled or ideologically driven MPs could decide to turn their back on the prime minister... to PASOK or Potami to save his administration), while the second would allow the wounded prime
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SYRIZA strife not a rebellion in the making yet
PoliticsGreek Politics. However, this ferment should not – at this stage - be considered a clear sign that Prime Minister..., that Tsipras, Deputy Prime Minister Yiannis Dragasakis and State Minister Alekos Flambouraris have all... would be a high-risk strategy: It would be a way for the prime minister to outmanouvre his left wing
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Kostas Karamanlis as comeback kid?
AgoraA number of eyebrows were raised last week when an opinion poll suggested that former Prime... by the fact that there is a poll on Samaras’s successor when the ex-prime minister has said that he... Democracy and PASOK, and now by SYRIZA and Independent Greeks. Alexis Tsipras is Greece’s fifth prime
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Newsletter 27 - 22/05/2015
Once again Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras came away this week from a meeting with European Union...-blown rebellion. Tsipras and Deputy Prime Minister Yannis Dragasakis have addressed SYRIZA’s... if the prime minister reaches an agreement with lenders that is considered a betrayal of the party’s
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As talks enter final stretch, Tsipras addresses broad, varied audience
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Alexis Tsipras held another teleconference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel... and context of the commentary suggests that the prime minister had both the domestic, as well... to the kind that SYRIZA and Tsipras regularly use within Greece. So far, though, the Greek prime minister has
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Brussels talks inconclusive, Tsipras has tough sell at home if deal reached
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Alexis Tsipras was briefed last night on the content of lenders’ proposals... prime minister suggested that lenders want Athens to abolish a benefit given to anyone over 60 years... that the Greek prime minister could have used to ease the deal through his party and parliament
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Tsipras briefing suggests he is still searching for deal with lenders
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThere were few fireworks in Parliament on Friday, when Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras's spoke to MPs... carried out over the last few years. The prime minister, though, said the government would complete... in the form of Juncker, who in a joint statement with the Greek prime minister said a month ago
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