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Tsipras and lenders leave themselves with fading chances of salvaging deal
PoliticsGreek Politicsrequest for a conference call on Saturday, putting off any further conversation until Greece has... repeated his call for bold political initiatives from German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Tsipras also has... of a European Union summit in Brussels on Wednesday after the three held a conference call on Saturday
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Newsletter 143
that a quorum of more than 50 percent is needed in first-degree unions to call protest action... given by the government is that the Communist Party (KKE) asked for a vote by roll call... representing notaries in Athens and Piraeus decided to call off the transactions because of the high
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Pressure intensifies on govt for more radical interventions in energy markets
PoliticsGreek Politics’s demand for stronger measures. Industrial energy users are the latest group to join the call... risk making their products uncompetitive and putting Greek manufacturers out of business. The call... the meeting was a call for the government to impose a windfall tax on big energy companies. Opposition
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Warning signs for coalition after majority trimmed in multi-bill vote
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe SYRIZA and Independent Greeks (ANEL) parliamentary groups respectively. As we flagged earlier in the day, SYRIZA’s Stathis Panagoulis abstained from the vote and ANEL’s Nikos Nikolopoulos voted... that has been largely alien to him now; that of the enforcer. His coalition partner, ANEL leader Panos
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SYRIZA tests PASOK waters with talk of possible alliance
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreeks (ANEL) have been accompanied by a revival of the effort to explore the idea of Alexis Tsipras’s party working with PASOK in the future. Defence Minister Panos Kammenos, who leads ANEL, intervened... SYRIZA that perhaps the alliance between the leftists and the right-wing nationalists of ANEL has run its
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Coalition braces for Sunday demo, ponders impact on cooperation
PoliticsGreek Politics’s partner, Independent Greeks (ANEL), is backing the demonstration and continues to reject the use... Minister Panos Kammenos. The friction between SYRIZA and ANEL is visible, particularly with the verbal... been suggestions from some ANEL deputies that the party might withdraw from the coalition
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Political turbulence due to name deal creates election doubts
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreeks (ANEL), was ousted from his party. This leaves the coalition with just a three-seat majority... with FYROM because the pact was not supported by the whole coalition as ANEL leader and Defence... will intensify about how long ANEL will be able to prop up the coalition. Given that the next elections
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New Democracy gains MP as new effort to launch nationalist party announced
PoliticsGreek Politicsranks in January, but more recently lost two Independent Greeks (ANEL) lawmakers due to the agreement... with the name deal and to appeal to voters who may have backed Golden Dawn or ANEL in the past. The decline of ANEL, both in terms of opinion poll ratings (it is hovering just below the 3 percent threshold
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Newsletter 190 -18/01/2018
coalition partner Panos Kammenos, leader of Independent Greeks (ANEL). The ballot did not produce any... Papakosta (independent), Deputy Agricultural Development Minister Vassilis Kokkalis (ex-ANEL), Tourism Minister Elena Kountoura (ex-ANEL), Thanassis Papachristopoulos and Kostas Zouraris (both ANEL
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Small parties suffer as Parliament edges towards vote on name deal
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreeks/ANEL), Deputy Citizens’ Protection Minister Katerina Papakosta, Potami leader Stavros Theodorakis and his two remaining MPs Giorgos Mavrotas and Spyros Likoudis, former ANEL lawmaker Thanassis... behind it a trail of destruction as far as the Greek political scene is concerned. KINAL and ANEL Apart
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