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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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New polls indicate support for recent measures, give SYRIZA glimmer of hope
PoliticsGreek Politicson the apparent widespread displeasure with the Macedonia name deal. A Kapa Research poll... (Elliniki Lysi), which set up in the wake of the protests against the Macedonia name deal, already... was a good move and 63 percent having a negative view of the deal to recognise Greece’s neighbour as North
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Report exposes fractured and incomplete response to refugees
Society-Turkey deal implemented in 2016, despite several years of dealing with the issue, Greece’s response... in 25 refugee camps on mainland Greece. In the three years since the EU-Turkey deal was implemented, the report noted that Greece’s authorities had remained out of step with the deal. As a result
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Govt rebuffs uncomfortable reports on money laundering, unpaid contributions
PoliticsGreek Politicsas part of its strategy to alleviate what it saw as the negative impact of the name deal. However... opposition to the name deal that New Democracy had voiced before the diplomatic accord was signed... and nationalist voters it wooed with its hard line against the deal in the past. However, the government also
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Athens buoyed by EU, US support over maritime spat with Turkey
PoliticsForeign Policyon the Turkey–Libya maritime border deal. A common statement adopted by the EU leaders during their summit in Brussels on Thursday and Friday rejects the deal as “invalid” and insists that the accord... to continue its diplomatic efforts to deal with the aftermath of the Turkey-Libya deal be enlisting
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