More from the Balkans: Greece. (prime minister Constantine Mitsotakis resigns)

From: The Economist (US) | Date: September 11, 1993 | Copyright information

Mitsotakis is resigning and called new elections for October, 1993, but his New Democracy Party is expected to lose its majority in parliament. The issue of government recognition of Macedonia, Yugoslavia, has been a problem for the party.

THE fall of the Greek government has pushed the country into political turmoil and added one more element of instability to the war-torn Balkans. On September 9th the prime minister, Constantine Mitsotakis, offered his resignation and called f...

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