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  1. ND wrong-foots SYRIZA with call to lift expat vote restrictions
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    The expat vote has become the latest pretext for a flare-up between the New Democracy government... for their own version of the expat vote. The initiative is staunchly opposed by Communist Party KKE.... On Monday, Interior Minister Makis Voridis tabled a bill in Parliament lifting restrictions on Greeks voting

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  2. Learning the lessons of Greece's toxic decade
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    Agora

    before: Agree to the terms of the official lenders or face default. After being let down so gravely... of the populist mould, unwilling to let principles get in the way of achieving his goals. The first half of 2015... the negotiations with the lenders and by selecting Prokopis Pavlopoulos, the interior minister during 2004-2009

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  3. No let-up in tension with Turkey as MPs prepare to approve maritime boundary deals
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    this, inferior, deal. The opposition party is trying to find a way of criticising ND’s handling...The belligerent rhetoric from Turkey towards Greece has continued this week as Greek MPs prepare to vote on the maritime boundaries deal between Athens and Cairo that triggered the latest round

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  4. Loosening of restrictions on expat vote fails to secure Parliament's approval

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    and diaspora Greeks alike, tabled the legislation after SYRIZA’s spokeswoman on expat affairs made

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  5. Parties take another look at granting vote to Greek expats
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    permitted in person, so in order to vote an expat would have to return to their home voting district... no residence conditions in connection to voting rights, while others require expat voters to have lived.... The bargain The issue of the expat vote appears to have climbed up the political agenda as the result

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  6. Investigations into voter email leak continue despite denials from government

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    of separate investigations by the Interior Ministry, a Greek prosecutor and the country’s Data Protection Authority, while several expat Greeks have filed separate lawsuits against the Greek state...-Michelle Asimakopoulou from the upcoming EP elections and the resignation of a senior Interior

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  7. ND in danger of being blown off course by farming subsidy scandal

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    to plead the case of a local olive farmer who was in danger of missing out on a legitimate subsidy

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  8. Greece courts danger
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    Agora

    of this matter untouched and numerous vital questions have not been asked, let alone answered. Inside Story has

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  9. Post-election blamestorming or Why Harris lost and the Democrats should nominate Oprah
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    Agora

    As an American expat in Europe, it is a familiar quadrennial exercise to be called upon to explain... the most divisive public figure in living memory to the most powerful job in the world? Let’s start... the population. Let’s face it, Harris was confronted with a monumental task right out of the gate. There were

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  10. Will centre-left let go of past to grasp change?
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    been trying to heal over the last few years. Insularism The old guard has not been willing to let go

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