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Urban planning scandal deepens as Tsipras unveils five cost of living pledges
PoliticsGreek Politicsand bags, while artworks may have been used to launder illicit proceeds. The case file runs to 3,500... and the breadth of the investigation have fuelled speculation that the scandal may widen further... the norm. The pledges made by Tsipras on Friday may have been pre-planned but they felt like
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Divisions on center left blight launch of Greek Olive Tree alliance
PoliticsGreek Politicsto an agreement with PASOK about running on a joint ticket in the May 25 European Parliament elections... Tree’s electoral chances in May. Opinion polls so far indicate that PASOK is stuck in single digit... Dawn chief Nikos Michaloliakos, who is in pre-trial custody.
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Golden Dawn to compete in EP elections but its longer term future is unclear
PoliticsGreek PoliticsOne of the unknowns going into the May 25 European Parliament elections in Greece has been cleared... of the stigma associated with such a choice. It looks likely, however, that the results on May 25..., the arrest of its leader Nikos Michaloliakos and most of the party’s other 17 MPs after the murder
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Greek MPs pass 2015 budget but give few clues for presidential vote
PoliticsGreek Politicsto President Karolos Papoulias may not reveal their hand until the final vote at the end of the month... in the government at the time. Aware of this, and concerned about the possibility that Romanos, 21, may... by a policeman. Many were also marching in support of anarchist Nikos Romanos, a friend of Grigoropoulos who
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All the numbers that matter in the Greek presidential election
PoliticsGreek Politics, possibility is that some Golden Dawn MPs may consider quitting the party and voting as independents... is that it will put extra pressure on the wavering MPs, who may be concerned that snap elections... ballot and a date for early elections. One of them (Nikos Tsoukalis), though, said on Monday that he
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Top SYRIZA officials hint at path to compromise with eurozone
PoliticsGreek Politics(including payments to the International Monetary Fund and interest payments) may be covered via T-Bill... the troika’s approval this could undermine negotiations. However, there may be room for a new... to compromise came on Thursday when Alexis Tsipras’s right-hand man, Nikos Pappas, suggested
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Newsletter 19 - 13/03/2015
63 percent of the total, compared to just 6 percent in January and zero in May 2014. The absolute... of 2.9 percent, which may be manageable for a few months but could have a more pronounced, negative... Minister Nikos Paraskevopoulos’s threat on Wednesday to implement a 2000 Supreme Court decision
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Tsipras steps in amid concern deal with lenders slipping away
PoliticsGreek Politics, told the SYRIZA-affiliated newspaper Avgi that the coalition would need to reach a deal in early May... the conditions are in place for funding to be released following the next finance ministers’ gathering on May... by the institutions than Finance Ministry general secretary for fiscal policy Nikos Theocharakis, who has played
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SYRIZA's left wing ups pressure on Tsipras but PM retains authority for now
PoliticsGreek Politicsfaction whose loyalty to Tsipras may be put under strain once a final agreement with lenders... developments may be a precursor to how SYRIZA will react when a deal with the eurozone and the IMF... liquidity problem. Earlier comments by Interior Minister Nikos Voutsis were in this direction. He
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Greece and Albania at loggerheads over hydrocarbons research in Ionian
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat Turkey may have been a key player behind the decision of Albania’s Constitutional Court. Former... analysts have misgivings about Kotzias’s planned tour. They say this may not be the ideal time... (SEECP) in Tirana this week. Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias has not yet decided whether to include
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