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Newsletter 168 -29/06/2018
Thinning majority jolts coalition Govt left with 152 seats as ANEL MP departs but PM rejects... perilously thin. The coalition lost another MP on Tuesday, when Independent Greeks (ANEL) deputy Giorgos... lawmaker to leave the government over the agreement between Athens and Skopje. Another ANEL MP
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Differences over Macedonia name issue put coalition unity under scrutiny
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDemocracy to call for the government to clarify its stance on the matter. Conservative MP, Dora... party, Independent Greeks (ANEL), have failed to see eye to eye on an issue. There have been occasions since 2015 when ANEL has refused to support draft legislation in Parliament and there has never
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Despite ongoing row with SYRIZA, Kammenos not preparing for early departure
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe issue indicates that despite the noise being created around the disagreement between ANEL and SYRIZA... a replacement for ANEL in Parliament if he wants to continue governing, while Kammenos knows... This does not mean that the ANEL leader’s effort to create a fuss will cease. It seems that he
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Welcome to Berlin: Mitsotakis meets Merkel
AgoraParis and met with President Emanuel Macron the week before. Mitsotakis and Merkel know each other from... concerns increasing funding for public investment projects earmarked through the European Commission... hand-in-hand with the urgent improvement of such a track record of EU funding absorption levels
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Parties locked in tug of war over troubled universities
Societywas built upon by subsequent governments and extended with a strategy which saw the creation of numerous... to power of the SYRIZA-ANEL coalition in 2015, the official unwinding of the Diamantopoulou law began... of the Diamantopoulou law criticised what it saw as a deep politicisation of decision-making on all
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Newsletter 83 - 22/07/2016
percent to 22.39 million. It is worth noting that revenues have steadily beaten targets over the past... to be circumventing it, for fear of finding itself facing a conviction at the European Court of Human... of the four main Greek banks. The management changes required by the HFSF’s findings must
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KINAL edges towards more central role in political developments
PoliticsGreek Politicsparty political, importance. The left-wing leader repeated his call for Mitsotakis to call early... of elections in the next 18 months is starting to concentrate people’s minds. New Democracy saw its... of MEP Androulakis as its new leader in December – the centre-left party saw its ratings increase
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Constitution tweaked, consensus sought for Greek diaspora vote and next president
PoliticsGreek Politics” for criminal offences. Under the amended terms, at least 30 MPs have to call for a minister or ex-minister... to call for the House to form an investigative committee. This will require the signatures of at least... centre-right party. The latter had previously supported the Independent Greeks (ANEL) and when he
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EU elections in Greece: Applying a different scale of values
Agoraor moderates in Greece, have chosen to ignore this because they saw it as a means to an end (kicking... coalition partner, Independent Greeks (ANEL), with which Greek Solution has some similarities. ANEL went... career (at least for now) of its leader Panos Kammenos. Many of the 155,000 votes ANEL lost ended up
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Referendum call finds Greek banks teetering on the edge
Economywith ECB decision to lift the waiver on Greek government securities (previously used for ECB funding... Assistance (ELA) funding from zero in December to 77.58 billion at the end of May. Taking into account ECB funding of 38.8 billion, in the form of EFSF bonds that Greek banks received during
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