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Two hurdles left for coalition this year before bigger challenges in 2014
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreece’s coalition has two more hurdles to clear before it stumbles over the finishing line at the end of the year, exhausted and battered but not quite yet beaten. The first challenge is to pass... are presumably softer than those that would have been demanded by the troika, which wanted
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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... the intended effect. The experience at the managerial levels of public administration has been particularly
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Newsletter 169 -06/07/2018
be shelved The leader of junior coalition partner Independent Greeks (ANEL), Defence Minister Panos... be approved by a qualified majority (at least 180 out of 300 MPs) in Parliament. The ANEL leader suggested that he would force national elections if this is not the case. The ANEL leader’s calls
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Newsletter 190 -18/01/2018
coalition partner Panos Kammenos, leader of Independent Greeks (ANEL). The ballot did not produce any... Papakosta (independent), Deputy Agricultural Development Minister Vassilis Kokkalis (ex-ANEL), Tourism Minister Elena Kountoura (ex-ANEL), Thanassis Papachristopoulos and Kostas Zouraris (both ANEL
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Macedonia issue, planned rally stoke tension between parties
PoliticsGreek Politicsto concern Tsipras and his team at this stage. While the Independent Greeks (ANEL) leader has to play... to an abrupt end, his political career could hit a wall. Opinion poll In keeping with many other surveys, the Pulse poll suggests that support for ANEL stands well below the 3 percent threshold for gaining
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Coalition hopeful on pensions, looks to maximise impact of limited relief measures
PoliticsGreek Politics. Defence Minister Panos Kammenos, who has threatened to pull his Independent Greeks (ANEL) party out... after being beaten in the European votes, which is a strong deterrent factor for the SYRIZA leader.
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With eye on elections, Tsipras talks up public sector hirings
PoliticsGreek Politicsto be beaten in those ballots and it would risky to hold a national vote in the wake... partner, Independent Greeks (ANEL), is expected to depart once the Prespes Agreement on the Macedonia
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No image availableSeveral far right parties have unexpectedly entered the Greek parliament 25/06/23 The Wall Street... Greek elections: Rail tragedy hangs over vote dominated by dynasties 19/05/23 The Wall Street Journal... 2020 11/09/20 The Wall Street Journal Second Night of Fires Destroys Remains of Greek Refugee Camp
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Stress and strain for gov't from farmers protests, police appointments
PoliticsGreek Politicsat paving the way for negotiations). It is thought that Independent Greeks (ANEL) leader and Defence... for the government, especially as he would be the second ANEL MP to leave the post (his predecessor Dimitris... the government’s three-seat majority. Sgouridis would leave the ministry but not ANEL’s parliamentary group
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Tsipras tries to weather Kammenos storm, looks for poll boost
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe stability of his coalition with Independent Greeks (ANEL) and its leader, Defence Minister Panos... in the party about the ANEL leader’s behaviour. New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis highlighted this point and claimed that SYRIZA and ANEL would end up dragging each other down. The government’s
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