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Greece’s Infrastructure and Transport Minister Kostas Karamanlis submitted his resignation on Wednesday afternoon, 17 hours after the deadly train tragedy in Tempi. His resignation comes following public fury and immense pressure on social media and thus as elections near. Karamanlis submitted his resignation after he returned from a visit to …

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The Minister for Agriculture Development in Mitsotakis government was forced to resign and a former deputy finance minister in Karamanlis government, now mayor in the town of Sparta, was expelled from conservative New Democracy on Monday. Reason for the “drastic measures” was a video showing the Minister, the mayor and …

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Turkey’s Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu resigned on Sunday night, citing his failure in successfully steering the country’s 31-province wide weekend curfew. Soylu’s resignation came an hour before the 48-hour curfew ended. “In a process carried out diligently and meticulously, the responsibility for all implementation of the weekend curfew to stem …

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Cyprus’s Justice Minister resigned on Thursday amid public uproar at how police handled the disappearance of foreign women, victims of a suspected serial killer whose actions went undetected for almost three years. Four women have been found murdered in the past three weeks, their bodies dumped in three locations west …

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A lawmaker from Independent Greeks (ANEL) resigned on Tuesday over the Macedonia Agreement. The resignation leaves Tsipras’ coalition partner ANEL with just seven lawmakers and puts to government majority at risk. It is the second MP out of ANEL in the last ten days. MP Giorgos Lazaridis who is elected …

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The chief executive of Greece’s National Bank (NBG) Leonidas Fragiadakis resigned on Friday after completing his three-year term in the post, the bank said.  Greece’s second-largest lender by assets said in a filing to the Athens bourse that the end of Fragiadakis’ term coincided with the completion of the main …

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Greece’s corruption prosecutor Eleni Raikou submitted her resignation on Friday claiming she was being targeted by “unofficial power centres” due to her investigation of alleged extensive bribery of state officials by the pharmaceutical firm Novartis. Eleni Raikou has been holding this position since 213. Greece’s Corruption Prosecutor Eleni Raikou resigned …

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Last night I fell asleep at 1:30 and everyone was claiming ‘Remain” was at 54% and Brexit at 48%. This morning this ⇒ 51.9% for Exit and 48.9% for Remain. A shock! A shock for Europe and the European Union leaders, first of all. Donald Tusk ‏@eucopresident 28m28 minutes ago …

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SYRIZA MP Vasiliki Katrivanou resigned just a couple of hours after she voted YES to the omnibus bill but NO to the Privatization Fund and IMF’s contingency measures. There was reportedly pressure by other SYRIZA lawmakers that she resigns, as the party could not afford to expel her due to …

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Greece’s lawmakers started to debate the first set of 3. bailout “prior actions” to be voted in the Parliament later today. The voting is the toughest political challenge for Syriza and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras who most likely see his parliamentary majority decreasing. One after the other, SYRIZA Ministers and …

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Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis submitted his resignation on Monday morning after Greeks rejected creditors’ proposal with 61.31%. Below is what the “star” FinMin wrote in his blog. 11:25 am The name of the new Finance Minister is to be announced after the Political Leaders Council currently conveying under President Pavlopoulos. …

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Greek representative to International Monetary Fund and one of the Fund’s  alternate executive directors Thanos Catsambas unexpectedly resigned on Wednesday. Greek media speculate whether Catsambas’ resignation has anything to do with the visit of Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis to IMF last Sunday. Effectively Thanos Catsambas will step down from his …

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Tension went high in Greek Parliament, when Liana Kanelli, Greek Communist Party MP, criticized deputy Education Ministrer Giorgos Stylios for the free breakfast program in schools. The deputy Minister acts like “Marie Antoinette, when he says, he offers one piece of fruit per day to children, but has spent 3 …

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Leader of Democratic Left Fotis Kouvelis submitted his resignation  just a few days after the European Parliament elections on Sunday that gave the center-left party a thin 1.20%. That is a total collapse for the party that it is claimed to have divided the left right after Greece entered the …

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Cyprus financial minister Michalis Sarris submitted his resignation short after noon on Tuesday. President Nicos Anastasiades accepted Sarris’ resignation, government spokesman confirmed. Already in the morning rumors had been claiming that a mini cabinet reshuffle was due in Cyprus, aiming mainly to replace the finance minister. Short after 3 p.m. …

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The president of the board of Bank of Cyprus Andreas Artemis submitted his resignation to Finance Minister Michalis Sarris  short before 12 o’ clock noon on Tuesday. According to local media, Artemis disagreed with the handling of the bank recapitalisation and said that the selling of BOP branches was decided without …

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Pope Benedict XVI will resign on Feb. 28, the Vatican has confirmed. He is the first pope to resign in nearly 600 years. Pope Benedict XVI was elected on 19 April 2005 in a papal conclave as the 265th Pope, serving  as Sovereign of the Vatican City State and leader of …

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Anna Bubenikova. An esteemed member at the European Commission experts panel to advise the Greeks on how to privatize their public assets. Member of the board of Greek Privatization Company (Assets Development Fund) since summer 2011. Appointed by the European Commission to advise the Greek government on how to get rid of public …

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 A top economist at the International Monetary Fund has poured scorn on its “tainted” leadership and said he is “ashamed” to have worked there. Peter Doyle: “After twenty years of service, I am ashamed to have had any association with with the Fund at all.” Peter Doyle said in a …

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The confidence to Greek government did not last long. Twelve hours after Samaras’ coalition government won the confidence vote at the parliament, one of its ministers put down his pen and resigned. Nikos Nikolopoulos, deputy Minister for Labour, Social Security & Welfare submitted his resignation to prime minister Antonis Samaras. The …

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