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Govt takes up fiscal requests with EU as pressure over min wage, main homes mounts The government is hoping that the visit of EU Economic Affairs Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni will provide an opportunity for Athens to argue its case for greater fiscal space in the coming months and years.
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ND targets NGOs in latest bid to bring migration under control The government adopted on Tuesday legislation that paves the way for the creation of an official register for non-governmental organisations that deal with refugees.
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Uproar over minister's home protection comments underscore sensitive nature of challenge With the fraught issue of home repossessions threatening to come to a head in the spring, recent statements by Development Minister Adonis Georgiadis have been attracting furious responses from across the opposition.
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PM hopes solo run can lead to settlement of football dispute Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has taken it upon himself to try to resolve the storm created by a dispute involving the country’s top football teams and their owners, which is threatening unpredictable political consequences.
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Internal party rivalries prove a hassle for Mitsotakis and Tsipras Following his return from talks with French President Emmanuel Macron and European Council President Charles Michel in Paris and Brussels on Wednesday, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis chaired a cabinet meeting in Athens on Thursday.
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ND under attack from all sides over handling of football wrangle The government is trying to avoid tying itself up in knots after coming under attack from all sides on Wednesday, when it passed an amendment that ensures two football clubs from northern Greece will not be relegated despite an independent commission recommending that they be expelled from the Super League.
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Poll shows support for ND in several policy areas as pension bill debate heats up The pension bill, which the government put to public consultation last week, will be among the main issues in the political debate this week as SYRIZA seeks to counter New Democracy’s attempt to present the draft law as ushering in the first series of pension increases since the start of the crisis.
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PM takes to stage in Davos as migration worries persist at home As Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis took to the international stage in Davos, the now familiar problem of dealing with refugee flows was troubling his government back home.
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New president receives strong endorsement, hints at areas of interest Senior judge Katerina Sakellaropoulou was elected Greece new, and first female, president on Wednesday by the vast majority of the country’s MPs, vindicating Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s choice, but also justifying SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras’s decision to support her candidacy.
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PM brings law and order back onto agenda as foreign policy issues dominate Foreign policy issues have been dominating the domestic political agenda in Greece over the past few days, although the government has tried to shift focus back to internal matters via its law and order agenda.