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  1. Run this way: The recurring pattern of Greek leaders
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    on national TV: A SYRIZA win would cause a bank run. It is difficult to know where to start... the presidential vote - for a position with severely limited powers - as an opportunity to bring down... the chance to do so. A University of Macedonia poll for Skai TV found this week that 28 percent of Greeks

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  2. Newsletter 11 - 16/01/2015

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    policies. A Pulse poll for Action 24 TV put SYRIZA on 30 percent and New Democracy 27 percent.... A Macedonia University poll for Skai TV suggested SYRIZA’s lead over the conservatives had not changed over... down in the second macro-economic adjustment programme. Both assumptions are the institutional

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  3. Lack of liquidity, political cost push Greek gov't to seek swift deal with lenders
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    with domestic political concerns as the government does not want to be seen to be going down the same... precarious. Earlier this week, Alternate Finance Minister Dimitris Mardas claimed in a TV appearance... for Skai TV published this week indicate that the approval rating for the negotiating strategy being

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  4. Tsipras upbeat about funding deal but also mulls referendum in case of impasse
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    In his first TV interview since becoming prime minister, Alexis Tsipras expressed his optimism... appeared rather subdued in his appearance on Star TV, spending much of the interview explaining why... Athens feels it cannot back down. On the issue of VAT hikes, for instance, he defended the discount

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  5. Opposition party leader Leventis a coalition partner-in-waiting?
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    . Leventis, once among the early members of PASOK, has spent three decades, mostly via late-night TV... fiercely critical of the government. In an interview with Skai TV this week he appeared to rule out... Kammenos to step down. Kammenos was a minister in one of Karamanlis’s governments when the latter

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  6. Greek foreign minister cautious on EU veto and NATO patrols
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    , the so called ‘red lines’, and the need to re-negotiate,” he said in his Skai TV interview. But he... decision to take the unilateral decision to seal off its borders). Kotzias’s interview on Skai TV... to the planned NATO patrols in the Aegean but, unlike Defence Minister Panos Kammenos, played down

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  7. A misstep away from absurdity

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    . Its decision was made even worse by the fact that the Macedonia issue is what ultimately brought down... to walk away when it emerged that in a TV interview in January he had referred to Greece’s..., this issue was addressed by Mouzalas in the Skai TV interview that prompted all of this week’s kerfuffle

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  8. Government tries to limit damage from corruption claims but more tests lie ahead

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    a transparent and fair auction for TV licences, the Greek government has started to hit back against accusations... successful bidders for the TV permits. Speaking to Parapolitika radio, Pappas insisted that none... on a quarterly basis but down 0.9 percent year on year. Tsipras also suggested that next year’s expected

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  9. Government caught between milestones and corruption claims
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    into corruption scandals that could prove fatal for its time in office. The TV permits scandal does not look like it will die down soon even though all four successful bidders are due to have paid their first... on September 30 to discuss whether the TV permit tender was in line with the constitution. A negative

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  10. Coalition guards unity as Tsipras briefs opposition leaders
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    comments with Gennimata in front of the TV cameras. The government immediately dismissed the claim made...,” said Regling. Although his comments regarding market access have gone down well in Athens, the ESM... to create rifts within the government. Tzanakopoulos argued on Skai TV that the institutions

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