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Mitsotakis calls for no-confidence vote, hoping to exert more pressure on coalition
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the Macedonia name deal. The decision by the conservative leader seems primarily aimed at drawing... Theodorakis and former PASOK chief George Papandreou, were reportedly in favour of the deal... disagreement with SYRIZA over the name deal, the nationalist party’s leader Defence Minister Panos
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No let-up in intensity of SYRIZA-New Democracy clash over name settlement
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat show 47 percent of people are in favour of the deal. The government found an opportunity on Monday... and that his resistance to the deal is driven by the need to keep his party together. Government... to be the party that is suffering the greatest turmoil at the moment as a result of the name deal. After losing
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Blueprint for election battle laid out in Parliament debate
PoliticsGreek Politicsin the run-up to the next elections, was the Macedonia name deal. Mitsotakis again accused Tsipras... ERT that the referendum on the name deal will be held in his country on September 23, 30 or October... Independent Greeks (ANEL), which opposes the deal, will try to bring down the government before
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New Democracy gains MP as new effort to launch nationalist party announced
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat the new grouping aims to appeal to voters upset by the Macedonia name deal as well those who want... with the name deal and to appeal to voters who may have backed Golden Dawn or ANEL in the past. The decline... Democracy politician insists that his party will not vote for the deal and has hinted that it could quit
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Fire fallout casts doubt on Tsipras’s post-MoU strategy
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe other issue lurking in the background is the Macedonia name deal. The Former Yugoslav Republic... reached with Greece. If the deal is approved, Greek Parliament will also have to vote. Junior coalition partner Independent Greeks (ANEL) has said it will not back the deal, which would bring the right
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Tsipras and Kammenos vow to stick together until further notice
PoliticsGreek Politicsof pique over the Macedonia deal or anything else. During their cooperation, already spanning almost... the Macedonia issue being re-examined in March. Kammenos seems committed to not supporting the name deal... stand by voting against the deal or abstaining and then withdrawing his party’s support
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Scandal allegations playing growing role in path towards elections
PoliticsGreek Politicsconcession and what was demanded as part of the final deal, after the European Commission had intervened... a middleman into the deal to sell 300,000 anti-tank shells. ND suggested that there was something crooked about the deal and that the Saudis may have decided to only take 100,000 shells, with the remainder
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Breaking up is hard to do
Agorathat introduced the "backstop". This envisaged that if the future UK-EU trade deal did not provide... differently in the finalised version of the withdrawal treaty. Barring a deal on free trade, the UK... will leave the EU without a deal. Such a ‘no-deal’ scenario would have significant political, economic
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SYRIZA and ND keep name dispute alive as poll shows narrower gap
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAlexis Tsipras of agreeing to the Macedonia name deal to secure the lenders’ approval for cancelling... be noted, though, that while speaking in Parliament, Kammenos had declared the deal “dead” because... that Kammenos is wrong to blame his party’s decline on the Macedonia name deal, arguing that ANEL’s
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To Potami tries to quash speculation about stance on Prespes Agreement
PoliticsGreek PoliticsTo Potami has attempted to douse speculation about whether it will support the Macedonia name deal... slightly ajar and there is still a possibility that none of To Potami’s six MPs will support the deal... is set to do a deal with New Democracy so he can be included on the conservative party’s state list
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