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Top EU prosecutor lambasts anti-corruption efforts, calls for reform to bring ex-ministers to justice
PoliticsGreek Politics. With regard to Tempe, Kövesi reiterated her view that the tragedy would have been avoided if the EU... of witnesses to non-politicians, prompting the opposition to accuse the governing party of orchestrating... the former rural affairs minister Lefteris Avgenakis, one of the politicians named in the EPPO file
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Newsletter 41 - 04/09/2015
on minor TV stations, appears to be gathering enough support to pass the 3 percent threshold... and force the politicians to find a way to make things work. Rarely has Greece gone into an election... to be choosing between on 20 September. They could be forgiven for thinking that their politicians are shirking
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Reshuffle and handouts put on ice as New Democracy closes ranks ahead of local elections
PoliticsGreek Politicsbudget were given by Finance Minister Costis Hatzidakis in an interview with ANT-1 TV on Wednesday..., while they have also had blame cast on them by government-friendly media and politicians at the national... Democracy politicians reluctant to publicly back them for re-election. New Democracy HQ has let
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Government on alert again as farming subsidy probe zeroes in on two ex-ministers
PoliticsGreek Politicsthere is no further political fallout for New Democracy. Opposition on attack In a TV interview... further and have their immunity lifted. Both politicians issued statements denying that they had been... will push for Parliament to launch a preliminary inquiry into the two conservative politicians
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PM embarks on persuasion exercise as political veterans pick up on public discontent
PoliticsGreek PoliticsVenizelos told state TV channel ERT that he believes the country has “become ungovernable”. Venizelos... veteran politicians have offered grim assessments of the current political situation, warning... with public institutions, two veteran politicians used separate occasions on Wednesday to warn of a danger
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Words will always hurt
Agorawith the others, like hair clippings on a barber shop floor. Samaras is by no means the only Greek politician... Democracy launched a withering attack on the leftist politician and the parties that backed him... tsunami, traitor, junta, genocide and extremist are uttered by mainstream Greek politicians on both
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Government tries to appease farmers, will continue to court political centre
PoliticsGreek Politicspolitician, former PASOK MP Evi Christofilopoulou, into New Democracy’s ranks. Christofilopoulou.... The centre-left politician quit PASOK after last summer’s general elections in which he twice failed... politicians in New Democracy’s ranks even though this is also causing concern among party officials
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Macroeconomic fundamentals for Greece
Agora. The citizens may ascertain what parties can rise above the daily shouting and present a reasoned view... of elderly people are swelling—again a long and powerful slow-motion force. This “big picture” view.... Citizens need to be aware, however, that the demographers are of the view that in a fundamental
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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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