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  1. Standoff over civil servants in Greece bears hallmarks of pre-election clash
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    and SYRIZA over the evaluation of civil servants. The conflict has arisen from the refusal... Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has decided to adopt a scheme that will result in 15 percent of civil.... Mitsotakis insists that almost 4,000 more dismissals, which the government has agreed with the troika

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  2. SYRIZA builds clear but not conclusive lead in polls as PASOK and GD fade
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    Another weekend has passed and another set of polls have given SYRIZA a clear but not decisive lead... between SYRIZA and New Democracy has widened by 1.5 percentage point in the last month. The opposition... and PASOK polling 4 percent or less in two of the three. While PASOK’s decline has been evident

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  3. Crisis weakens confidence in Greek representative institutions
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    pollster has found. Conducted by Public Issue since 2007, the annual survey looks at the public’s... confidence in the military, which has seen its rating grow from 71 percent in eight years, while trust... of respondents expressed confidence in political parties, a figure which has remained almost unchanged since 2007

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  4. Greek MPs pass 2015 budget but give few clues for presidential vote
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    the ballot and has also suggested she will vote for the coalition’s presidential candidate. Grigoris... into claims of plans to bribe deputies has been dropped but another has just begun. If the second set..., the tension from Saturday could carry over as Romanos has entered the fourth week of a hunger strike

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  5. How snap elections in Greece fit into Samaras's strategy
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    . There has been a distinct sense over recent weeks that the government has lost the appetite to see through the adjustment programme it has repeatedly argued is the only option for Greece to exit the crisis.... The polarisation of the political debate in Greece (in which the opposition has also played

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  6. Golden Dawn: Forgotten but not gone
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    With its leader and half of its parliamentary group in jail, it is no surprise that Golden Dawn has... the election campaign, Golden Dawn has had little presence in the Greek media over the past few... Michaloliakos and several of its leading candidates were on TV regularly. The party has been pushed

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  7. Newsletter 13 - 30/01/2015

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    and international audience that it has every intention of keeping its pre-election pledge to roll back some... no time in showing that it has every intention of keeping its pre-election pledges. back... different philosophy from the one that has governed the bailouts since 2010. It remains to be seen if Greece

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  8. Eurogroup leaves Tsipras with difficult but not impossible deal to sell at home
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    -month extension of Greece’s loan agreement, which has some concessions for the coalition but overall... minister will focus on: Lower primary surplus Varoufakis has secured a concession on the issue... such flexibility has been shown with fiscal goals since Greece’s bailouts began in May 2010. ECB waiver

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  9. Greek reform proposals set for broad approval but include some political obstacles
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    is that it has received swift approval from Greece's creditors (apart from the International... guaranteeing full accountability and transparency of its operations." The government has also set its... procurements. It is in the area of the media, however, where the coalition has plans to go much further than

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  10. Greece: The moment of truth is inexorably approaching

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    agreement). As a result, the crisis has been squarely blamed on the bailout agreement and on foreign... effect of this narrative of national liberation has been to delegitimise those who argued...). Little cohesion, little experience Tsipras has not hesitated to take a bold stance vis-à-vis

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