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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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Newsletter 292 - 09/04/2021
handling of the pandemic, the government hit back this week via a primetime TV interview with Prime.... In an interview to Star TV on Wednesday, Mitsotakis defended the government’s record on handling....” His comments came after SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras launched an attack on the government during a TV
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Reopening public broadcaster poses multiple challenges for Tsipras
PoliticsGreek Politicson Parliament’s TV channel. In practical terms, Konstantopoulou’s stance also nearly led..., while will covered by a TV levy raising 190 million euros per year) but the launch of the public... TV channels currently operate with private licences that have often been obtained in murky
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Tsipras puts proposals to socialist leaders, resumes bailout talks ahead of review
PoliticsGreek Politicsinterpreted as a call to violate the Greek Constitution and the European acquis communautaire. TV licenses In Athens, New Democracy issued its most forthright statement yet on the pending tender for TV... to reject an appeal by TV station owners against the tender, which will result in the issuing of just
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Newsletter 90 - 30/09/2016
hopes Departure of controversial TV licence bidder provides some relief The government’s week consisted... the opposition with the other. Mired in disputes over the recent TV licence tender and potential... in front of voters. Hopes of making the most of the regulation of the TV broadcasting sector were dashed
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Newsletter 93 - 21/10/2016
A battle on two fronts Fallout from TV licensing procedure continues to damage government... into sharp focus. At the same time, the TV permits issue threatened to take a bad turn... is the government’s increasingly precarious position regarding the TV licencing procedure. The Council
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EU elections in Greece: Applying a different scale of values
Agora, conspiracy theory-obsessed TV presenter/telemarketer, the party gained 4.1 percent of the vote... successful candidates make for equally miserable reading. There are three newcomers, but they consist of a TV... he’s been selling in Greece via his TV programmes. Out of the 21 MEPs Greece is sending to Brussels
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KINAL edges towards more central role in political developments
PoliticsGreek Politicsmade by SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras in a TV interview and the findings of a new opinion poll. Speaking on Thursday to Kontra TV, the opposition leader adopted a mild stance towards KINAL and its new... a renaissance. Opinion poll A new opinion poll by Metron Analysis for Mega TV indicates that support
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ND poll losses reignite discussions of post-election coalition
PoliticsGreek Politics. Political implications The most recent sounding by Alco for Alpha TV found that over one in two Greeks did... to be forcing a slow reversal on the ruling party. In an interview with ANT-1 TV on Monday, Minister... with Alpha TV on Tuesday evening, with an announcement of the election date expected sometime around Easter
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