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Rivalry between New Democracy and PASOK set for revival
PoliticsGreek PoliticsStefanos Kasselakis is set to launch his own party. When these numbers are projected into an election
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Bond issue decision expected as clock ticks down
PoliticsGreek Politicsthen, on July 21, Parliament is due to vote on whether to set up an inquiry into Defence Minister... this affair. On Thursday, the conservatives criticised the coalition for failing to set up a sworn... in September 2015, when then-Interior Minister Panayiotis Kouroublis asked local authorities to list
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Mitsotakis sworn in as prime minister as attention turns to Cabinet picks
PoliticsGreek PoliticsKyriakos Mitsotakis set about appointing the team to carry out his mandate to transform Greece... Staikouras looks set to head the Finance Ministry, where he held a more junior ministerial portfolio... Dendias are tipped to return to former posts at the Labour and Interior Ministries respectively
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Mitsotakis starts second term, prepares to name cabinet and launch reforms amid far-right rise
PoliticsGreek PoliticsParliament is set to be sworn in on July 3, followed by a three-day debate on the government’s policy... health minister, while Olga Kefaloyianni is set for a comeback as tourism minister, a position she has... with responsibility of overseeing the government’s role in Parliament. Former Interior Minister Makis Voridis
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Launch of new movement highlights fragmentation of Greek centre-left
PoliticsGreek PoliticsFormer Interior Minister Yiannis Ragoussis is set to launch a new centre-left movement on Wednesday, highlighting the fragmentation in this part of the Greek political spectrum. With PASOK... to liberalise the taxi sector while he was interior, and then transport, minister between 2009 and 2011. He
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Tsipras facing decision over timing of vote on Prespes Agreement
PoliticsGreek Politicsregarding the Macedonia name agreement, which looks set to trigger the end of SYRIZA’s coalition... that the Interior Ministry is asking for an extra 60 million euros from the Finance Ministry to carry out... to discuss election issues. Interior Minister Alexis Haritsis has reportedly stepped up his meetings
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Newsletter 279 -13/11/2020
discussion that the government had set aside the advice of some experts to cancel the religious.... Interior Minister Takis Thedorikakos was also left out of the new line-up to be replaced by Agriculture... Interior Minister, to be replaced by Christos Tarantilis. Altogether, 17 changes were made, including
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Parties gear up for vote on bill permitting private universities
PoliticsGreek Politicsdisagree. The proposal to allow foreign universities to set up branches in Greece, thereby bypassing... before receiving an email from the Interior Ministry regarding the postal vote. The inference... available and does not contain contact information. The Interior Ministry issued a statement denying
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Newsletter 52 - 20/11/2015
passed the omnibus bill containing the last set of prior actions to unlock the next sub-tranche of 2... into the Unified Auxiliary Insurance Fund (ETEA). The first set of new pension measures would reportedly target... or included in the second set of prior actions. Harder and more painful, the second set of measures
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ND prepares first three bills for votes before Parliament's summer recess
PoliticsGreek Politics’s 158 MPs would vote, but what policy agenda the centre-right party would set out over the three-day debate. The government is set to bring three bills to Parliament by August 10, when the House... is also set to contain a provision for the scrapping of the so-called university "asylum" law, which
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