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  1. Papandreou boasts strong backing as KINAL gears up to elect new leader
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    votes, and there is a sense that he would be more amenable than other hopefuls to the prospect.... This would be the case if any candidate were to gain more than 50 pct of the vote this weekend... in November 2017, around 210,000 people voted in the first round and more than 155,000 in the run-off vote

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  2. Strong surplus in Nov as travel balance nears year-end with 58.6 pct of 2019 intakes, 46.7 pct of arrivals
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    on the travel front continues to be encouraging – apart from rising by more than five times compared to the 33.3-million-euros figure of last year, the November 2021 data is even higher than the 108.8 million... expenditure per trip increased by 25.6 percent, to 495.3 euros, and significantly higher than the 308.4

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  3. Budget primary balance continues strong performance in Oct, ahead of target by 6.4 bln
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    by more than 6.4 billion euros against an anticipated deficit of 6.75 billion euros at this point...-euro deficit in October 2021. The overall balance is better than the target by 6.26 billion euros.... PIB expenditure came to 6.06 billion euros, higher than the target by 255 million euros. Overall

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  4. University bill meets with strong opposition as MPs begin debating reform
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    and profit seeking rather than the interests of improving the quality of education in the country... language programmes and research hubs, rather than go through with the changes proposed... more in terms of support than PASOK. Since Kasselakis took over as SYRIZA leader last September

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  5. Election speculation gathers steam while surveillance claims mount
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    currently favoured by the prime minister. Last week, Interior Minister Makis Voridis, whose department is responsible for planning the elections, suggested in an interview on Mega TV that the date... are scheduled for late June. Elaborating on his statements in a separate interview on ANT1 TV, Voridis said

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  6. Jockeying over presidential nomination points to parties' longer-term political goals
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    , a new opinion poll by Marc for ANT-1 TV will have been met with concern by Androulakis and his... TV indicates that 25.1 pct of respondents intend to vote for New Democracy, 14.2 pct for PASOK, 7 pct... Karolos Papoulias in 2005 or Alexis Tsipras choosing former interior minister and New Democracy

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  7. Government comes out swinging as tense week, building up to Tempe protests, begins
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    for this week, as far as the government is concerned, by producing a typically combative TV performance... TV. “It is, in essence, a protest against Mitsotakis.” He added that the Tempe victims... as the government tries to hit back against its opponents via the media. Another is Interior Minister

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  8. Yes or no, complex political developments lie ahead for Greece
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    if an accurate projection will be available then. As this is Greece’s first referendum in more than 40 years... of the result will only be available at 9 p.m. if there is more than 4 percentage points difference between... fundamentals. This would mean that any agreement is likely to be more onerous than whatever

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  9. Tsipras denies Grexit plan, has work to do to keep Greece in euro

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    for an agreement, which is set to include more fiscal measures than previous offers, but it is still not certain..., which resulted in a strong “No” vote that many European officials had said would be synonymous.... A government non-paper stressed that the new deal would cover Greece for a longer period than

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  10. Out with the old, in with the old
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    than 18 months later, these voters are likely to be feeling a strong sense of disappointment...Perhaps more so than its promises about debt reduction, its ambitious targets for welfare spending... own. In other words, it is more focussed on engaging in regime change than breathing new life

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