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  1. Mitsotakis scoffs at coalition's MoU exit strategy, challenges PM to elections
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    Kyriakos Mitsotakis has challenged Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to call snap elections this year... of a general election later this year. “If SYRIZA and ANEL (Independent Greeks) mean all.... And if they are not afraid of New Democracy, let them take us on.” Mitsotakis said he challenged Tsipras to call

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  2. To Potami expected to provide clinching votes in vote on name deal
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    (ANEL) MPs Elena Kountoura and Thanassis Papachristopoulos, independent lawmaker Katerina Papakosta... that the conditions have improved following the departure of ANEL from the coalition for a discussion... of its contents. The PM’s office also repeated its call for there to be a TV debate between Tsipras

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  3. Cyprus cable dispute and Crete mafia case cast fresh clouds over TIF reset agenda

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    was a wiretapped phone call in which a defence minister agrees to intervene in favour a candidate for the Metropolis of Kydonia. Panos Kammenos, former head of the ANEL (Independent Greeks) party who served as defence minister in the SYRIZA-ANEL coalition government, is heard in conversation with one of gang’s

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  4. Greece and the euro: The flight of Icarus

    Agora

    ($310 billion) from its bailout is going towards repaying existing debt means the amount Greece owes.... The glory was fleeting. Within a few months of holding the Olympics, Greece became the first EU country

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  5. How does ECB's decision on Greek banks' T-Bill exposure affect state liquidity?
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    Economy

    utilise 310 million euros (90 percent of HFSF cash reserves of 345 million) through an amendment... problems. Greek banks are currently holding between 1.8 and 2.6 billion euros in T-Bills each

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  6. Coalition braces for Sunday demo, ponders impact on cooperation
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    ’s partner, Independent Greeks (ANEL), is backing the demonstration and continues to reject the use... Minister Panos Kammenos. The friction between SYRIZA and ANEL is visible, particularly with the verbal... been suggestions from some ANEL deputies that the party might withdraw from the coalition

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  7. New Democracy gains MP as new effort to launch nationalist party announced

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    ranks in January, but more recently lost two Independent Greeks (ANEL) lawmakers due to the agreement... with the name deal and to appeal to voters who may have backed Golden Dawn or ANEL in the past. The decline of ANEL, both in terms of opinion poll ratings (it is hovering just below the 3 percent threshold

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  8. Kammenos's odd partnership with Tsipras still holding together
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    Greeks (ANEL) over the weekend, while also managing to highlight the odd nature of the cooperation... disciplinary measures. The ANEL leader has become indispensable to Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras thanks to his... both in his awarding of government positions to ANEL MPs (five of the nine lawmakers received

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  9. Are hirings in the public sector out of control?
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    EconomyFeatures

    a reaction. In addition, charges of cronyism strike at the heart of the SYRIZA/ANEL coalition... permanent public sector staff and 15,000 contractors, at a cost of 600 million euros. These accusations... contractors. Their numbers have swelled from 3,413 in 2012 to 15,601 at the end of 2017. By far the largest

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  10. Public sector staff trends survive MoU exit, change of government
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    Society

    after the fall of the Samaras government in January 2015. Under SYRIZA/ANEL it increased to a maximum... in early summer. In June 2019 the number of public sector contractors was 103,213 and in June 2020 it had... in the latter part of 2019, however there was no corresponding fall in the number of contractors. New record

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