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Stalled troika talks stretching Greek coalition cohesion to limits
PoliticsGreek Politicsmeeting Another indication of the concern within the government is that there are reports Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and Deputy Prime Minister Evangelos Venizelos may call SYRIZA leader Alexis
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Newsletter 4 - 21/11/2014
the government’s candidate unless it is ex-Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis, in which case the MP is 100.... As the government of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras awaits with anticipation or trepidation – pending on your
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Uncertainty feeding tension within SYRIZA as well as Greek government
PoliticsGreek Politics. This uncertainty is also feeding splits within PASOK itself. Party leader and Deputy Prime Minister... leader Alexis Tsipras has offered to agree on a new president with the government as long as Prime
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Brewing rivalry between Venizelos and Papandreou threatens to unsettle fragile PASOK
PoliticsGreek Politicsbetween Venizelos and another ex-prime minister, Kostas Simitis. In contrast to the meeting... believes PASOK should remain as a self-contained political unit. The ex-prime minister proposed in his
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Coalition hopes it will have more than just Paris at the end of troika talks
PoliticsGreek Politics. If the review does not close, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras faces the dreaded option of having... of a precautionary credit line) rather than the measures that Greece will have to adopt to get there. The prime
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Tsipras shuns growing calls for compromise on presidential vote
PoliticsGreek Politicsto win the presidential vote, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras used an op-ed in Sunday’s Ethnos to make... party to the table. It is more likely to be an attempt to paint SYRIZA, rather than the prime minister
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Tsipras remains sketchy on coalition options, negotiating positions
PoliticsGreek Politicselection drew the most attention. He accused Prime Minister Antonis Samaras of trying to encourage... Georgios’s Papandreou’s Center Union in 1965 to help form governments under prime ministers appointed
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Samaras finger wagging at troika a sign of pressure on Greek government
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Antonis Samaras took the unusual step of criticising the troika on Tuesday, an indication of how frustrated the government feels as it is squeezed between lenders’ demands and domestic... and the complications this could lead to afterwards is unlikely to be something that the prime minister
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All the numbers that matter in the Greek presidential election
PoliticsGreek Politics). Assuming there are no defections from the coalition in the next weeks, this leaves Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and Deputy Prime Minister Evangelos Venizelos needing at least another 25 votes to elect
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SYRIZA's date with history
Agorathe decision of then Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis to call snap elections in October 2009. A huge... accused Prime Minister Antonis Samaras of trying to encourage “apostasy” among opposition MPs in order
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