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Newsletter 54 - 04/12/2015
chaired by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras last Saturday, to agree to the government’s proposal for a joint... a moment of exemplary cooperation for the EU felt very tawdry. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras only gave
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Mood sours as focus switches to next set of prior actions
PoliticsGreek Politicsto Tsakalotos being “friendly” but not being able to get a lot done. The prime minister’s office responded... by State Minister Nikos Pappas, one of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s closest aides, that the Greek
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Tsipras seeks MPs' loyalty before next vote, leaves door open on future alliances
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Alexis Tsipras sought in a televised interview on Monday night to quash any discussion about him forming a broader coalition but also sent a message to his own MPs, who may be wavering... and PASOK than when mentioning To Potami or the Union of Centrists. The prime minister did not mention
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Doubts over IMF role in Greek bailout becoming source of rising tension
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe role of the International Monetary Fund in the third Greek bailout is starting to become a bone of contention between the SYRIZA-Independent Greeks government and some of its lenders. Both Prime... Prime Minister Antonis Samaras was also striking out against the IMF around this time last year
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SYRIZA tries to compose itself ahead of next vote on prior actions
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Alexis Tsipras is due to address SYRIZA’s central committee on Saturday, ahead of the upcoming vote on the next set of bailout-related prior actions. The committee is due to sit... government’s performance on the bank recapitalisation and the refugee crisis during Prime Minister’s
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Leaving Greece's annus horribilis behind
AgoraNo one inside or outside Greece will easily forget 2015. With the change of government and the appointment of Alexis Tsipras from the leftist Syriza party as prime minister in late January, a six... not featured as a sustainable success story for the prime minister. The job creation impetus must
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Vote on same-sex civil unions reveals common ground and divisions
PoliticsGreek Politicsto claim citizenship. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras cast his government as pioneers in this respect... between those close to ex-prime minister Kostas Karamanlis, who backs Meimarakis, and those who either
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Opposition party leader Leventis a coalition partner-in-waiting?
PoliticsGreek Politicsby the challenging reforms that lie ahead. State Minister Alekos Flambouraris, one of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s... was prime minister. Karamanlis and his supporters are backing Evangelos Meimarakis in the run-off vote
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Pension overhaul poses political challenge despite avoiding immediate cuts
PoliticsGreek Politics, as Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras had repeatedly pledged, the proposals put forward by the government... majority, the prime minister cannot afford to lose any more lawmakers ahead of more crucial votes
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Mitsotakis win gives New Democracy chance for renewal but creates fresh risks
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat the ex-prime minister’s influence has waned and that there has been a realignment of power within... and that New Democracy will provide Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras with an easier ideological target
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