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Fires cast growing shadow as new shipwreck probe is announced
PoliticsGreek Politicsof migrants travelling from Libya to Italy drowning in the Mediterranean, off the coast of Greece... on the need for the EU to work together to contain human traffickers. By identifying the smugglers
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Athens and Ankara keep eyes on domestic audiences as talks continue
PoliticsForeign Policyinstitutions and Human Rights. Even though both sides are working together, pursuing a positive... continental shelf and the area involved in the Turkey-Libya Maritime Memorandum. It is clear
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Newsletter 151 -16/02/2018
Pressure mounts at home, abroad Govt faces double flashpoint as internal politics and international relations collide The Greek government has been through an intense and very tense week at home and abroad, as it found itself at odds with neighbouring T...
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Newsletter 83 - 22/07/2016
of getting a supermajority (at least 200 votes) had disappeared some time before the vote, especially... it is not later accused of breaching their human rights. Greek government officials suggest a decision... to be circumventing it, for fear of finding itself facing a conviction at the European Court of Human
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Newsletter 391 - 01/09/2023
the allegations previously made by his ministers that there was human involvement in the Evros fire. He also claimed that there are indications – he did not give details – that fires had been lit by human hands... been steadily increasing since 2012, when Greece haircut some 50 pct of 200 billion euros of bonds
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Friction over property tax exposes cracks in Greek coalition's strategy
PoliticsGreek Politicsfrom the remaining pool of 200 MPs. The government said that only one of the eight MPs (PASOK’s... put forward in 2010. Then, the New Democracy government only had 151 MPs and PASOK’s stance
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Piraeus Bank posts net profit of 94 mln in Q3 and 40 mln in 9M
EconomyBankingwas 153 bps over net loans versus 151 bps in Q2. The bank notes that it has around 23 billion in real... rose by around 200 million QoQ and came to 2 billion at the end of Q3. Emergency Liquidity Assistance
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Mitsotakis puts party unity above consensus with president pick
PoliticsGreek Politicswill be held on January 25. Up to five votes can be held. If the candidate fails to clear the bar of 200...), then an absolute majority of 151, before falling to a relative majority of as low as 120 in a final
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Government attempts to fight back amid opposition disharmony on Tempe tactics
PoliticsGreek Politicsgarnered 160 votes in the first three rounds, falling well short of the threshold of 200. Voting is expected to progress to a fourth round next week, where the threshold will drop to 151. While next week’s
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New Democracy rejigs key party posts as Spartiates expulsion leaves gap in Parliament
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat it lowered the bar for a parliamentary majority from 151 to 149. Marinakis’s interpretation was immediately... statements. By law, Parliament can function as long as it has more than 200 sitting members, however
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