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  1. Newsletter 277 -11/12/2020

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    PM rebuffs Covid-19 criticism Mitsotakis defends govt stance but is forced to extend some measures until Jan After being forced to extend Covid-19 restrictions into January, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis tried to defend this week his, and his gover...

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  2. Local elections in Greece a precursor of European vote
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    enough support to win from the first round. The northern city will also be holding an unofficial... privatisation fund has already said it will disregard the plebiscite, while the Interior Ministry has

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  3. First round of local elections leave Greek politics finely balanced
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    breakthrough came in the City of Athens, where relative unknown Gavriil Sakellaridis pushed incumbent Giorgos Kaminis all the way. According to Interior Ministry projections Kaminis was expected

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  4. Tsipras makes unpopular choice for president, with eye on political balance
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    of allowing rioters and vandals to cause millions of euros of damage in the city centre. The 65-year-old ex...In a somewhat controversial choice, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras chose former Interior Minister Prokopis Pavlopoulos as his party's presidential candidate yesterday. There was a mixed reaction

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  5. Newsletter 60 - 29/01/2016

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    on the wrong side of some city dwellers, with lawyers, engineers and doctors among the professionals... islands to prevent them simply moving on en masse to other parts of Europe. On this subject, a lot... that one of the ideas mentioned during an EU interior ministers’ meeting this week was for a large refugee

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  6. Newsletter 148 -26/01/2018

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    in the northern city, the opposition leader issued a statement in which he acknowledged the strong turnout..., Interior Minister Panos Skourletis said that Kammenos’s position, and his demand for a referendum

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  7. SYRIZA unveils array of pledges to win over voters ahead of July 7 vote
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    . The event in the port city of Patras on Tuesday will be the first of several campaign events... Minister Mariliza Xenogiannakopoulou and Interior Minister Alexis Haritsis, the governing party set out

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  8. Confusion over retail reopening puts govt on defensive
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    by the ongoing restrictions. Deputy Interior Minister Stelios Petsas received a frosty reception during his visit to Patra, Greece’s third-largest city. Also, the government announced an additional

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  9. Vaccination politics intensify as Greece races to plug immunity gap

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    city Thessaloniki. While the size of the crowds is smaller than those seen habitually in Greece..., the topic is becoming increasingly politicised. In a recent interview, Alternate Interior Minister

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  10. New Himare elections pose fresh challenge for Greek-Albanian relations
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    with ethnic Greeks, but is not considered by the Albanian state as a minority area. The city is part..., former interior minister Taulant Balla said that despite his call on July 22 for a speedy two-day

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