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New Year reshuffle brings more MPs into cabinet, keeps key ministers in post
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe deputy agriculture minister. Interior Minister Takis Thedorikakos has also been left out of the new... Petsas has been appointed Alternate Interior Minister, to be replaced by Christos Tarantilis... to the right” and “a party-political balancing act”. The elevation to the Interior Ministry of Makis Voridis
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University bill threatens PASOK consensus as probes launched into alleged infractions by politicians
PoliticsGreek Politicsinvestigation in the Interior Ministry, which is the suspected source of the data leak, while on Tuesday.... The Interior Ministry has denied that it provides voters’ contact information, while the chief...’s EP elections, but also because the suspicions of a data leak emerged within days of the Interior
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Newsletter 86 - 02/09/2016
the auctions for national TV broadcasting licences, with the four successful bidders (Skai TV, Ant1... the control? The tender for TV licences has been a series of missed opportunities The biggest flaw.... At the start of the process to auction four TV licenses in Athens this week, one of the people in the room
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Newsletter 89 - 23/09/2016
A question of survival Tsipras seeks to distance himself from potential TV licensing debacle Prime... the apparently full-of-holes TV licence procedure, as well as a clash with Bank of Greece governor Yannis... to a lack of proper financial checks on the four successful bidders in the TV permit auction
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Newsletter 44 - 25/09/2015
the opportunity to renew his coalition with Independent Greeks (ANEL), the prime minister has... the magnitude of this task, many were surprised that Tsipras chose to ally with ANEL again and not create... that working with ANEL gives him greater room for manoeuvre. However, his government is still lacking
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MP's departure ahead of multi-bill vote highlights pressure on coalition
PoliticsGreek PoliticsIndependent Greeks (ANEL), where another MP – Nikos Nikolopoulos – is threatening not to vote for the multi... government was formed, apparently due to ANEL leader Panos Kammenos’s decision not to include him... to deal with and would represent the first time since SYRIZA and ANEL started working together
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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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Tsakalotos appears but gives little away about negotiations with creditors
PoliticsGreek PoliticsEurogroup. The parliamentary representatives of SYRIZA and Independent Greeks (ANEL) both defended... between SYRIZA and ANEL. The latest friction has come in the form of comments from SYRIZA MP Nikos... that Defence Minister Panos Kammenos, who leads ANEL, is not doing enough to rein it in at a time
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Newsletter 133
coalition partners in Greece – SYRIZA and the Independent Greeks (ANEL) – have seemingly bolstered... after ANEL indicated it would not back two pieces of draft legislation. One concerned an amendment... be able to defend his majority in Parliament. However, after Tsipras gave his full support to ANEL
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ND puts pressure on Kammenos, a potential weak link in coalition
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor an inquiry into the ANEL chief’s exchanges with Makis Yiannousakis, a shipowner convicted... no basis for cooperation because of Tsipras being in government with ANEL, which she described... the MoU, there will be no need for SYRIZA to continue allying with ANEL or to implement policies agreed
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