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Androulakis positions PASOK as alternative to leading parties against phonetapping backdrop
PoliticsGreek Politics, which heard testimony from the head of the intelligence service (EYP) under the SYRIZA-ANEL..., funding for SMEs through the RRF, and support for farming to reduce the impact of inflation. He also
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Athens treads softly as North Macedonia heads to elections and EU mulls accession
PoliticsForeign PolicyAthens is keeping an eye on developments in North Macedonia as Greece’s neighbouring country heads... with the previous “Republic of Macedonia,” thereby breaching the Prespes Agreement. The issue... that the Agreement "has made possible North Macedonia's entry to NATO and its strong candidature to open
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Why is it taking so long for the pandemic to end in North Macedonia?
Agora, a year and seven months later, I’m wondering if that will be the case with North Macedonia... Macedonia, which is one of the countries with the highest COVID-19 mortality rate per million inhabitants... from optimal, but this is not a problem only in North Macedonia, but in most countries in the world
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Internal and external difficulties with measures expose coalition's weaknesses
PoliticsGreek Politicssigns of tension between the coalition partners emerged last week. Independent Greeks (ANEL) refused... through Parliament. Also, ANEL leader and Defence Minister publicly criticised Education Minister..., particularly as the upcoming leadership election in New Democracy may leave the ANEL president
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Kammenos's odd partnership with Tsipras still holding together
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreeks (ANEL) over the weekend, while also managing to highlight the odd nature of the cooperation... disciplinary measures. The ANEL leader has become indispensable to Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras thanks to his... both in his awarding of government positions to ANEL MPs (five of the nine lawmakers received
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Athens hopes for sub-tranche this week, ND keeps up pressure on Kammenos
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreeks (ANEL) leader Panos Kammenos. Mitsotakis pursues Kammenos Conservative leader Kyriakos... defended the ANEL leader for speaking to one of the men convicted in the case. The prime minister... and the right-wing nationalists of ANEL. There was an example of this discomfort on Wednesday, when
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Coalition's ideological contrasts highlighted but Kammenos quashes rift talk
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDefence Minister Panos Kammenos, who leads the junior coalition partner Independent Greeks (ANEL... from Archbishop Ieronymos and ANEL leader Kammenos, who maintains very close ties with the church.... It was pointed out that an ANEL MP, Dimitris Kammenos, last week voted against the provision
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Is the cost of Greece's public sector soaring again?
EconomyFeaturesAs Greece approaches the end of its bailout programme, claims are emerging that the SYRIZA-ANEL... risen by 600 million euros since the SYRIZA/ANEL government took office. This claim is supported... and cronyism are somewhat harder to dispel. The SYRIZA-ANEL government has raised eyebrows on several
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Mitsotakis treads carefully as pupils protest Macedonia name deal
PoliticsGreek Politics-ins and protests by school pupils, mostly in northern Greece, in relation to the Macedonia name... the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) is currently in the process of ratifying through... that he appreciates people’s frustration with the Macedonia name deal but warned that “healthy
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Mitsotakis on offensive over Macedonia name deal after Zaev comments
PoliticsGreek Politicson unconfirmed comments by Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) Prime Minister Zoran Zaev..., Republic of Macedonia, to North Macedonia. This is one of the government’s main lines of defence against its critics – namely, that Skopje was already using the name Macedonia and that the agreement means
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