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  1. ND wrong-foots SYRIZA with call to lift expat vote restrictions
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    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. Loosening of restrictions on expat vote fails to secure Parliament's approval

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

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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. Learning the lessons of Greece's toxic decade
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    the negotiations with the lenders and by selecting Prokopis Pavlopoulos, the interior minister during 2004-2009... seemed like the end of the MoU era. In the meantime, SYRIZA had parted ways with the radical side

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  6. 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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  7. PM adds minimum wage hike to pre-election promises, with hints of more to come

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    be reallocated to represent expat voters. Evros retraction German magazine Der Spiegel’s decision... across electoral districts. Interior Minister Makis Voridis stated recently that the government intended

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  8. Breaking up is hard to do
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    and the rest of Europe. If the current political and constitutional crisis is a preview of what is to come, there is the real danger that the UK will become the sick man of Europe. *Dr Nikos Skoutaris

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  9. SYRIZA readies itself for election battle, Mitsotakis pledges pension overhaul
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    in fiscal terms since the 3.5 percent of GDP primary surplus target is not in danger. Nevertheless... Interior Minister Panos Skourletis to take on the job but that the latter is reluctant to do so... for the prime minister to freshen up his ministerial line-up and prepare his team for the long election

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  10. SYRIZA, PASOK leaders prepare responses to stark choice presented by PM
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    Interior Minister Stelios Petsas in a TV interview, when he suggested that Greeks will have to adapt over...As SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras and PASOK chief Nikos Androulakis prepare to travel to Thessaloniki to provide their responses to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s speech at the trade fair

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