# antonis-samaras - Today’s News
# antonis-samaras - Monday 14 January, 2013
One bullet smashed through the window of the office of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras.
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# antonis-samaras - Monday 5 November, 2012
Parliament will spend the entire week debating the 2013 Budget, which will introduce another €13.5 billion in budget cuts.
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# antonis-samaras - Tuesday 23 October, 2012
Left-leaning partners in the coalition are rejecting Troika demands to make it easier to sack workers.
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# antonis-samaras - Friday 21 September, 2012
Mario Monti will greet the Taoiseach after meeting with another bailed-out premier, Greek leader Antonis Samaras.
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# antonis-samaras - Saturday 25 August, 2012
Greek prime minister Antonis Samaras wants an extension to Greece’s bailout but he’s going to have to wait for any decision.
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# antonis-samaras - Thursday 23 August, 2012
The German and French leaders will discuss the possibility of extending the time limit on the Greek bailout before meetings with Greece’s prime minister tomorrow and Saturday.
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# antonis-samaras - Wednesday 22 August, 2012
However, Antonis Samaras has ruled out Greece getting more funding from creditors.
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# antonis-samaras - Monday 20 August, 2012
The week began today with a meeting of Greece and Germany’s foreign ministers, which ended with stern words from Germany.
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The comments from Joerg Asmussen come at the beginning of another crucial week for the single currency and troubled Greece.
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# antonis-samaras - Wednesday 15 August, 2012
The Greek Prime Minister will suggest spending cuts be spread over four years instead of two in his talks with German and French leaders next week.
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# antonis-samaras - Thursday 2 August, 2012
Antonis Samaras has convinced his junior coalition partners to drop their objections to further austerity measures.
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# antonis-samaras - Sunday 22 July, 2012
Well, he isn’t known for his fidelity.
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# antonis-samaras - Thursday 5 July, 2012
Antonis Samaras is hoping to renegotiate the country’s second bailout…
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# antonis-samaras - Monday 25 June, 2012
Vassilis Rapanos was hospitalised last week after reportedly fainting the day after he was appointed to the finance ministry.
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A new report suggests that Greece breached the EU/IMF loan agreement rules. Meanwhile, the country’s new prime minister is recovering from eye surgery.
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# antonis-samaras - Saturday 23 June, 2012
The measures were agreed under the country’s international bailout arrangement.
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# antonis-samaras - Friday 22 June, 2012
Vassilis Rapanos was reportedly hospitalised with strong stomach pains, vertigo, nausea, sweating and fatigue earlier today.
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# antonis-samaras - Wednesday 20 June, 2012
All the day’s main news, plus a few bits and pieces you may have missed along the way…
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Greek politicians have reportedly reached an agreement on forming a coalition government.
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# antonis-samaras - Sunday 17 June, 2012
Greece could be set for more coalition talks as second election looks set to bring another stalemate.
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Who’s running? What do they believe? And what happens if the new government rejects the bailout?
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The first results will emerge at 5pm tonight, with EU leaders and financial markets watching nervously.
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# antonis-samaras - Wednesday 30 May, 2012
New Democracy is likely to get 23.4 per cent of the vote next month, with the anti-bailout Syriza on 22.1 per cent.
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# antonis-samaras - Sunday 13 May, 2012
Meetings between the country’s president and its three main party leaders fail to end the political stalemate in Greece.
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# antonis-samaras - Saturday 12 May, 2012
Political turmoil, soaring unemployment, falling markets, rubbish credit ratings. It’s all going off in Greece at the minute and not in a good way. But what’s going to happen next?
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# antonis-samaras - Friday 11 May, 2012
It now looks increasingly likely that Greece will face a second general election…
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If Alexis Tsipras and Evangelos Venizelos can’t agree a common platform, a second election will be almost certain.
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# antonis-samaras - Wednesday 9 May, 2012
As angry voters divided the spoils between a number of parties with hugely different ideologies, forming a government has proved impossible.
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# antonis-samaras - Tuesday 8 May, 2012
Alexis Tsipras will try to form a government after the largest party, New Democracy, said it would not be able to govern.
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# antonis-samaras - Wednesday 15 February, 2012
Meanwhile, Athens has agreed €325m more in spending cuts as it pushes for a deal on that second bailout.
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# antonis-samaras - Thursday 9 February, 2012
If Greece doesn’t secure a bailout loan by 15 February it may not have the money to pay a €14.5 billion bond on 20 March.
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# antonis-samaras - Tuesday 7 February, 2012
The three coalition parties continue talks today after missing yet another deadline yesterday.
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# antonis-samaras - Wednesday 9 November, 2011
George Papandreou tells the public that Greece will “do whatever is required” to remain in the Euro, but won’t name a new premier.
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It had been thought a new government would be in place by Monday…
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# antonis-samaras - Monday 7 November, 2011
Some background info on the man pushing for power as PM Papandreou steps back.
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Changes afoot in the debt stricken country.
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# antonis-samaras - Sunday 6 November, 2011
George Papandreou says he will step aside if agreement can be reached on the formation of an interim government to secure a new European debt deal for the country.
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A government statement says that an emergency cabinet meeting this afternoon will be his last.
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Opposition leader Antonis Samaras will meet with the Greek president today. Samaras is calling for a snap election.
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Nine things to know this morning…
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