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Government under pressure from TV permit and Attica Bank claims
PoliticsGreek Politicssensing that the coalition may be brought down by the collection of apparent scandals that have emerged... of the distinctive features it claims to have in comparison with the opposition. The pressure may ease up... concern about the developments, culminating in Interior Minister Panayiotis Kouroublis suggesting
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Name issue and auction targets make waves in domestic politics
PoliticsGreek Politicsleads the junior coalition partner Independent Greeks (ANEL), may prove an obstacle to any deal....” This has caused disquiet within SYRIZA and concern that the coalition may even fall apart over this matter. Speaking to ANT-1 TV on Wednesday, Interior Minister Panos Skourletis said that Kammenos’s
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coalition partner Independent Greeks (ANEL), may prove an obstacle to any deal with Skopje... and concern that the coalition may even fall apart over this matter. Speaking to ANT-1 TV on Wednesday, Interior Minister Panos Skourletis said that Kammenos’s position, and his demand for a referendum
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Speculation about timing of next general elections intensifies
PoliticsGreek Politicselections in late May 2019 in order to avoid sending Greeks to the polls three times in the same year... widely among Greeks and SYRIZA may not be rewarded as adequately as it would like. An early election... is turning a corner. On Sunday, Interior Minister Panos Skourletis suggested that the general
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With eye on elections, Tsipras talks up public sector hirings
PoliticsGreek Politicsin May, before or at the same time as the European Parliament and local votes, because SYRIZA is likely... with this strategy are that SYRIZA may have to govern as a minority government for a few months as its junior... with 4,500 next year. Meanwhile, the Interior Ministry estimates that there are roughly 35,000
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Ministers unveil lengthy payment schemes for unpaid taxes and contributions
EconomyProgrammeand ahead of the European Parliament and local elections on May 26. At a joint press conference on Sunday, Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos, Labour Minister Efi Achtsioglou, Interior Minister Alexis... is for the schemes to be launched on May 14, less than two weeks before the crucial European Parliament
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Outright majority in sight for ND as campaign takes detour through recent past
PoliticsGreek Politicsconvincingly, clinching a clear majority in the process. However, we may be seeing the start of an effort... finances by Karamanlis’s administration. This may be the start of Tsipras distancing himself... and electing the former conservative interior minister Prokopis Pavlopoulos as president of the republic
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SYRIZA launches internal dialogue to tackle questions of identity, future direction
PoliticsGreek Politics, or transforms into a more traditional social-democratic party in the European tradition. SYRIZA may have lost... amendments making it simpler to dismiss workers by repealing a law passed by SYRIZA in May obliging... of the Mati wildfires in the summer of 2018 when he was interior minister. However, what is currently being
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Govt examines how to ease out of lockdown as PM rules out snap elections
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat the measures would be relaxed as of May 4, rather than May 11 as had originally been suggested. Several... need,” he added. The premier’s view was echoed by Interior Minister Takis Theodorikakis. Speaking
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ND holds on to large poll lead despite growing public dissatisfaction
PoliticsGreek Politics, the unfolding situation with the pandemic may be adding to their reluctance. The jaded interpretation put on the reshuffle suggests that they may be even less charitable in their views of such political..., Interior Minister Makis Voridis argued that contrary to the report, the number of political
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