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  • Photo by MacroPolis Constitutional changes and Tsipras's leadership under scrutiny

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    The discussion about the changes to Greece’s constitution are in full flow ahead of next week’s vote on the revision, which is set to decouple the election of the country’s president from possible snap general elections.

  • Photo by MacroPolis Energy bill also unveiled as legislative activity intensifies

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    On the same day it unveiled its much-trumpeted second tax bill, the government also put to public consultation on Thursday a draft law concerning the energy sector as a period of intense legislative activity gets underway.

  • Photo by Panayotis Tzamaros/Fosphotos Asylum bill passes as SYRIZA turns up heat on Mitsotakis

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    The government’s attempt to overhaul Greece’s asylum system with the main aim of speeding up the returns of those not eligible for protection has been approved by Parliament but continues to stoke political controversy.

  • ND looks to asylum bill, strong rhetoric to ease pressure from migration flows

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    MPs have begun debating the government’s proposal for an overhaul of Greece’s asylum laws, which New Democracy sees as an important step towards facilitating the return of arrivals who are not eligible for protection and thereby easing the pressure on Greek islands and authorities in general.

  • Photo by MacroPolis ND and SYRIZA square up as Novartis inquiry gets underway

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    Parliament’s preliminary inquiry into the Novartis affair and the alleged manipulation of the case by former alternate justice minister Dimitris Papangelopoulos to damage SYRIZA’s political rivals was due to begin on Tuesday.

  • Photo by Panayotis Tzamaros/Fosphotos ND on cusp of brokering deal over diaspora vote as Novartis battle heats up

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    Although MPs have started to debate the 2020 draft budget, which encapsulates the government’s economic policy going forward, the focus of Greek politics is currently on an apparent rare moment of compromise between the parties over allowing Greeks living abroad to vote in the national elections from their country of residence.

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