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Newsletter 160 -04/05/2018
Opposition leaders fuel election talk As Mitsotakis and Gennimata call for snap polls, Tsipras... are to hold them at the same time as the European Parliament elections in late May 2019 in order... are in play. The first is for Tsipras to call a snap vote later this year in a bid to capitalise
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Ball in Greece's court after Skopje completes approval of name deal
Foreign PolicyGreek Politicsby Athens and Skopje, which have already begun preparatory work in order not to lose any more time... Stoltenberg call for a meeting, even at the level of permanent representatives, to agree on the text of the Accession Protocol which will call the country with its new constitutional name: Republic
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Tsipras forges ahead with referendum as lenders hold back, wait for result
PoliticsGreek Politicshis call for a “No” vote, repeating his belief that this would help the government reach a better deal... would not implement the deal but would then call national elections. However, it is difficult... to include New Democracy, To Potami, PASOK and at about 50 SYRIZA MPs in order to form a majority, unless
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Coalition hopeful on pensions, looks to maximise impact of limited relief measures
PoliticsGreek Politicsto call off the measure. “I am quite optimistic that pensions won’t be cut,” said Tsakalotos, who... to which tax cuts and welfare interventions will have to be sacrificed in order to ensure... measures to Parliament one by one and ask for them to be approved in roll call votes. This would
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Pressure intensifies on govt for more radical interventions in energy markets
PoliticsGreek Politics’s demand for stronger measures. Industrial energy users are the latest group to join the call... risk making their products uncompetitive and putting Greek manufacturers out of business. The call... the meeting was a call for the government to impose a windfall tax on big energy companies. Opposition
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Complex privatisation fund faces tall order to reduce Greek debt
EconomyOn top of the fiscal measures yielding 3 percent of GDP by 2018, one of the key prior actions for the conclusion of Greece’s first programme involves the establishment of a new privatisation fund. This was envisaged in the Eurozone Summit statement of l...
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Officials order wider use of masks as upward trend for Covid-19 cases continues
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe use of face masks for debates in Parliament became compulsory on Wednesday as Greek authorities try to re-instill a sense of caution in the public after seeing the number of coronavirus cases rise significantly this week. The decision to make MPs an...
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Developments in Novartis probe signal new, bitter phase in pre-election battle
PoliticsGreek Politics. Anti-corruption prosecutors are also reportedly set to call between 20 and 30 non-political figures... of bribing politicians, including former health ministers and ex-prime ministers, in order to secure more... are the two parties affected by the case have accused SYRIZA of manufacturing the scandal in order
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Is Greece facing a new migration crisis?
SocietyIn absolute numbers, the recent arrivals are lower by an order of magnitude compared to 2015, when several... reframed migration policy in line with its focus on a “law and order” agenda. One of its first acts... defining it as a public order issue, rather than a citizenship or humanitarian issue. Prior
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Mitsotakis keeps cool over white collar crime claims as poll delivers new boost
PoliticsGreek Politicsof trust and money laundering.” This prompted SYRIZA to slam the government and call Prime Minister... of providing “inadequate” answers and of only being interested in imposing law and order on the weakest, while... percent, which is a full point lower than in October. There is little change further down the order
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