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Tsipras confident on pension cuts, reticent on snap elections
PoliticsGreek PoliticsMinister Panos Kammenos (leader of nationalist Independent Greeks, or ANEL) had given a muddled take... the deal or some kind of velvet divorce being agreed with ANEL. This is why May is seen as the most likely... for the Mati wildfire, whose death toll rose to 99 on Tuesday.
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Newsletter 174 -14/09/2018
that responsibility for the death and destruction inflicted by the Mati fire. The fact that all four officials... Kammenos (leader of nationalist Independent Greeks, or ANEL) had given a muddled take of what might... kind of velvet divorce being agreed with ANEL. This is why May is seen as the most likely date
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Pension deal rekindles speculation about election date
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe government advising him to capitalise on the uptick in SYRIZA’s popularity by holding elections as early... respectively, and then go on to lose national elections within a few months, Tsipras knows that holding... expected to trigger a split in SYRIZA’s coalition with Independent Greeks (ANEL). Until recently, ANEL
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Newsletter 452 - 21/02/2025
their popularity and damage the government. His newspaper interview signalled a dramatic change in approach... that he held a key role in the SYRIZA government during its controversial handling deadly Mati
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Domestic pressure over refugee crisis building for Tsipras
PoliticsForeign Policymay become a holding pen for refugees and migrants. However, the increasing isolation of Greece over... is holding with Western Balkan countries in Vienna on Wednesday was a serious blow and has raised..., for holding up the deployment of the NATO reaction force. It may be just a question of time before
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Newsletter 325 - 28/01/2022
of coordination among authorities during the deadly fire in Mati, when SYRIZA was in power in 2018... the no confidence vote, arguing that by just issuing a vague apology and not holding members of his government... raise questions about whether the idea of holding snap elections in the coming months would be a good
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Fires continue to test capabilities and spark political confrontation
PoliticsGreek Politicsin connection to the deadly Mati fire, which claimed 103 lives, it was ridiculed by New Democracy. Opinion..., even though PM Mitsotakis appears to have ruled out the possibility of holding elections this autumn... insistence on holding elections at the end of the government’s four-year term.
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The tie that binds
Agoraand an agreement with the country’s lenders on debt relief. SYRIZA and Independent Greeks (ANEL) MPs gathered... gave SYRIZA, and later ANEL, a platform on which to build support, bring a premature end to Samaras’s... addressed by structural reforms. In these circumstances, nobody can talk of a dramatic change in Greece’s
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Cabinet reshuffle expected to presage coalition's revival effort
PoliticsGreek Politicsto hang on that long due to the souring of the public’s mood following the Mati disaster. “Until recently, I expected that the SYRIZA-ANEL government… would try to hold on for the longest time possible
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A moment to reflect, not celebrate
AgoraWell, the first thing to say is: Celebrate what? Until the recent devastating fire in Mati, on the outskirts on Athens, there was talk that the government was planning a grand event to mark Greece’s... with the right-wing Independent Greeks (ANEL) in 2015 (another product of the pro-MoU vs anti-MoU
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