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Tsipras upbeat about funding deal but also mulls referendum in case of impasse
PoliticsGreek PoliticsIn 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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Opposition party leader Leventis a coalition partner-in-waiting?
PoliticsGreek Politics. 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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Greek foreign minister cautious on EU veto and NATO patrols
PoliticsForeign Policy, 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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A misstep away from absurdity
Agora. 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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Government tries to limit damage from corruption claims but more tests lie ahead
PoliticsGreek Politicsa 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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Government caught between milestones and corruption claims
PoliticsGreek Politicsinto 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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Coalition guards unity as Tsipras briefs opposition leaders
PoliticsGreek Politicscomments 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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Football chairman's actions threaten to blow coalition off course again
PoliticsGreek Politicsclosed doors. The penalties had been handed down after the coach of another rival for the league title... also established a presence in the local media, buying Ethnos newspaper and Epsilon TV, which take... parties when he attended the inauguration of the TV station after Savvidis took over the channel
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Buckling under pressure of Mati death toll, Tsipras searches for corrective actions
PoliticsGreek Politicsdevasted by last Monday’s fire, on Monday morning without any TV cameras present. His visit came.... The head of junior coalition partner Independent Greeks (ANEL) Panos Kammenos visited Mati with TV cameras... will prefer to wait for things to calm down in the coming weeks before announcing a series of changes
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Mitsotakis plans cuts to pension contributions, aims to add private element to system
PoliticsGreek Politicsto win over voters gathers pace. In a live interview with Alpha TV on Tuesday night, Mitsotakis... in his interview his pledge to bring down taxation, saying he would create the fiscal space... Zacharaki after she claimed on live TV that he had been found guilty of libel on numerous occasions
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