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Greece’s coalition government suffered its first crack or its first beet bath, if you’d prefer so. The parliamentary group of Independent Greeks (ANEL) rejected the bill aiming to raise taxes for beer produced by small Greek breweries. The bill was under the Parliamentary Committee for Commerce, only SYRIZA lawmakers voted …

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Greeks are stunned. Possibly, also some members of the Independent Greeks, Tsipras’ junior coalition partner, wonder about the appointment of Dimitris Kammenos from ANEL as deputy minister in the new cabinet. The ANEL lawmaker has been known in the local tweeter-sphere for his antisemitic, racist and homophobic stance as well …

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Greece’s new government stands. 46 men and women sworn in on Wednesday morning to serve the country and the citizens in the name of God or just the Constitution. Not all the new ministers took a religious oath. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and his coalition partner Panos Kammenos preferred to …

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In the first public opinion poll conducted after the debate between ex prime minister Alexis Tsipras and the leader of main opposition party conservative New Democracy Bangelis Meimarakis on Monday, Greece’s main opposition party leads wioth 0.5% towards SYRIZa. Poll conducted by Metron Analysis for private TV Action24: SYRIZA 27% …

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High-ranking SYRIZA official and one of the party’s top economist, former deputy Prime Minister Yannis Dragasakis, admitted that the SYRIZA-led coalition government was unable to borrow money from third countries and that therefore it was obliged to sign the July 13th agreement. At the same time, he revealed that before …

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“Α clear majority mandate in order to form a strong government” is what Alexis Tsipras wants for left-wing SYRIZA. And one more thing: to co-govern the country together with his ex junior partner Independent Greeks (ANEL). But Greek voters do not seem to share the same approach as the former Prime …

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It is a fact that SYRIZA is losing voters. One has just to ask around in his social environment people who cast their votes in favor of the left-wing in the January elections. But is there a factual reason as to why conservative New Democracy is galloping ahead as the …

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The Value Added Tax of 23% was decided to be imposed on private education schools and tuition centers in August as an “equivalent measure” so that the absurd 23% V.A.T. on beef and other meats would be cancelled. Obliged to relocate revenue measures due to creditors’ fiscal targets, Greece has …

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Not one, not two, not three… a bunch of six public opinion polls were published over the weekend, and a seventh one on Monday. SYRIZA withholds the first position however with heavy losses when compared to the January elections and with no significant difference to conservative New Democracy. According to …

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Greece will write off debts up to 20,000 euro to tax office, insurance funds but also consumer loans and credit cards to the banks. The measure targets the debt relief of allegedly some 35,000 people and the criteria are very strict: absolute poverty, not possession of property, no income at …

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Bill passed, SYRIZA suffers defeat and thus by its own lawmakers. With 222 YES votes the Greek Parliament approved the 3. bailout bill on Friday morning.  64 MPs voted NO and 11 Abstained. With 42 SYRIZA MPs to have voted NO or “Present”, the the major coalition government partner suffered …

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Finally, good news! In the direction of correcting what we call “social injustice”. That is that while the poor and the needy and the vulnerable society groups are being disproportionally overtaxed, lawmakers and politicians pay less taxes and enjoy tax breaks with ‘whatever’ justification the legislator who introduced this system …

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I am speechless. Not since yesterday or last week. I have been speechless since July 13th when the Greek left-wing coalition government agreed to burden the country and the people with a new loan, the third bailout for Greece since 2010 together with the strictest austerity program ever. I have …

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With overwhelming majority the Greek Parliament approved the second bill of “prior actions” demanded by the country’s creditors. The Bill was approved with 230 votes. Against the bill voted 63 lawmakers among them also 31 from Tsipras’ SYRIZA. Another 5 SYRIZA lawmakers voted “present”. Voting result: YES 230 SYRIZA, Independent …

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Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras faces a new challenge today, as the Greek Parliament will vote for the second set of creditors’ “prior actions”.  Tsipras faces his second major test as it is not clear whether the 39-SYRIZA “rebels” will again deny their vote for the deal with the creditors. The …

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With a simple non-paper, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announced on Monday, that the “reforms on pensions and farmers’ taxation” will not be on the voting agenda of the Parliament upcoming Wednesday. The move is understood as  Tsipras’ big retreat towards SYRIZA lawmakers threatening to not vote for these measures and …

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“The European Central Bank will increase Emergency Liquidity Assistance for Greek banks today,” chief Mario Draghi said during a press conference on Thursday. The much expected decision comes after the ECB froze ELA on June 26th 2015 enforcing the Greek government and the Bank of Greece to impose  bank holiday …

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German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble goes to bed and wakes up with only one fixed idea in his mind: Grexit. He will never stop undermining the Greek deal, claiming that a debt relief within the Eurozone was not possible, but only possible with a temporary Grexit. Speaking to German radio …

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Greek Parliament voted first set of “priors actions”. Heavy blow for SYRIZA. Voting  Results: YES 229 NO 64 Present 6 Absent 2 SYRIZA total 149 MPs: YES 110 NO 32 Present 6 Absent 1 Among Yes-voters: Lapavitsas NO voters:mainly Left Platform and others Parliament Speaker Konstantopoulou, Varoufakis (ex FinMin), Valavani …

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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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