Greek quits
A prominent member of the ruling conservative party stunned his colleagues in parliament yesterday by resigning his seat and denouncing the government's foreign policy just hours before a confidence vote, Reuter reports from Athens. George Rallis, a former conservative prime minister, said he could not 'approve the government's handling of the Skopje (Macedonia) issue'. The government narrowly survived the vote.
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