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Polling steadies at top but churns beneath surface as opposition support splinters
PoliticsGreek Politicsin its election result estimate. This gives the governing party a 17.1‑point lead over PASOK in raw intention and an 18.4‑point advantage in the projected outcome. It is also the second consecutive Marc poll since October to show ND’s numbers rising. The Metron Analysis poll for Mega TV, which
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No let-up in tension with Turkey as MPs prepare to approve maritime boundary deals
PoliticsGreek Politicsbecause the conditions had not yet reached a point where they favoured Greece. It accuses ND of taking this, inferior, deal. The opposition party is trying to find a way of criticising ND’s handling
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New Year reshuffle brings more MPs into cabinet, keeps key ministers in post
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe 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... to the right” and “a party-political balancing act”. The elevation to the Interior Ministry of Makis Voridis
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University bill threatens PASOK consensus as probes launched into alleged infractions by politicians
PoliticsGreek Politicsinvestigation in the Interior Ministry, which is the suspected source of the data leak, while on Tuesday.... The Interior Ministry has denied that it provides voters’ contact information, while the chief...’s EP elections, but also because the suspicions of a data leak emerged within days of the Interior
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Greece and the euro: The flight of Icarus
AgoraOver the last three years, you won’t have read a newspaper article, seen a TV report or listened to a radio program that referred to Greece and didn’t use the word “crisis.” And for good reason too... in itself but the government was still borrowing cheaply on global markets, which at the point had
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One night in Cannes
Agoracurrency and the principles underpinning it. It was also the point at which Papandreou's bid... destabilise the government. Later that same night, though, Venizelos repeated his comments in a TV
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Samaras hopes for Merkel fillip as gloom grips Greek coalition
PoliticsGreek PoliticsUniversity and published by Skai TV on Wednesday night gave SYRIZA a six-point lead over New Democracy
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How snap elections in Greece fit into Samaras's strategy
Agoraconsensus. The premier’s admission in a TV interview on Saturday that snap elections would suit him... that a new plan had to be devised. At this point, Samaras made what was a deeply political calculation: He
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Heading for slim election win, SYRIZA tries to secure MPs' loyalty
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe leftists gaining 30.5 percent and the conservatives 27. GPO poll for Mega TV SYRIZA 28.5% ND 25.3 Potami..., 2015 All the polls point to a narrowing of the gap between the two leading parties. The GPO survey
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SYRIZA looking for six-month breather from troika
PoliticsGreek Politicsin a late night TV show on Action 24 on Thursday. He claimed that a SYRIZA government would not seek... as the two sides negotiate a new agreement. Dragasakis’s suggestions also point to SYRIZA expecting
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