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Greek socialists claim victory in election • Pasok wins after five years of conservative rule • Costas Karamanlis ejected after gamble on mid-term poll Greek socialist party supporters in Athens react following exit poll results from the parliamentary...
Tags: Greece, democracy parties, Conservative New Democracy Party, Costas Karamanlis, prime minister, New Democracy party, George Papandreou, minister costas, opposition socialists, concede defeat
Opinion polls put the opposition Socialists led by George Papandreou ahead of Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis' New Democracy party. Mr Karamanlis was only half way into his four-year term when he called the election in early September. He said he wanted...
Tags: Greece, George Papandreou, Costas Karamanlis, prime minister, minister costas, snap elections
Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis displayed a belligerent mood in the televised debate last night between the leaders of the six main parties...Karamanlis and Papandreou posed their questions to each other...Papandreou fluffed his chance to hit back with...
Tags: Costas Karamanlis, minister costas, prime minister, Greece, Athens
New Democracy to have narrowed, though Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis and Socialist leader George Papandreou are head to head in terms of their popularity with voters...As for Karamanlis and Papandreou, each were backed by 38 percent of citizens questioned...
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More than 10,000 people marched through downtown Thessaloniki towards the International Trade Fair where the Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis was giving a speech on the state of the country's economy. Karamanlis, whose conservative administration...
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In a televised address to the nation, Karamanlis said, "We have to clarify the political landscape and proceed with a series of essential measures to emerge from the downturn." "The year 2010 will be a difficult and decisive one, and so the Greek people...
Tags: Costas Karamanlis' New Democracy, Mr Karamanlis, prime minister, economic crisis, snap elections, Greece, minister costas, general elections, Greek, early elections
There was no force used and they asked to protest on the air about the 15-year-old's killing." The 20 demonstrators interrupted a news broadcast The channel showed images of the protesters for several moments before quickly cutting to advertisements and...
Tags: police, teenager, riots, prime minister, Greek PM Karamanlis, Greece, Costas Karamanlis, minister costas, Athens, Kostas Karamanlis
Greece yesterday as a general strike paralysed the country, piling pressure on the beleaguered conservative government of Costas Karamanlis. Protesters attacked the main Athens courthouse with firebombs during a hearing for police officers whose shooting...
Tags: Greece, Athens, Costas Karamanlis, general strike, minister costas, prime minister, conservative governed, police clashed, Parliament, riots police
The prime minister spoke at great length both in his formal address and the press conference in Thessaloniki, but nothing he said was very original. More stressed than we have ever seen him before, Costas Karamanlis tried to mask his manifest unease by...
Tags: Costas Karamanlis, prime minister, Thessaloniki, minister costas