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Newsletter 57 - 08/01/2016
with the staunchly anti-bailout (in rhetoric at least) Independent Greeks. In the ensuing months, Tsipras became... miracle worker, or “Harvard-educated free-market reformer”, as the Wall Street Journal describes him.... The Wall Street Journal writes that Mitsotakis won “respect from Greece’s creditors for his efforts
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Greece and lenders with conceptual, as well as practical, gaps to bridge
PoliticsGreek Politicsand in Varoufakis labelling the troika “shabbily constructed” and “anti-European,” which made Dijsselbloem... of the example of his predecessor Antonis Samaras, who abandoned his anti-austerity rhetoric almost.... This means that there is room for compromise in the days ahead – as a Wall Street Journal article published
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Approaching Golden Dawn verdict shines spotlight on Greek politics, justice
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe collective heading “Wall of Democracy”, denouncing Golden Dawn and calling for a historical verdict against... of the vote, after campaigning on an anti-austerity, anti-establishment platform against the country’s
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Under-fire PM pledges civil defence improvements following summer of destruction
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe auspices of the Infrastructure and Environment Ministry to manage future anti-flooding work... for the last three terms, had carried out anti-flooding work in the area. The PM added, though... to complete the construction of the wall on Greece’s land border with Turkey, in Evros
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PM doubles down on constitutional reform as pre‑election strategy hardens
PoliticsGreek Politicsrequired for meaningful constitutional change, the prime minister is encountering a wall of hostility... lotus‑eaters” and calling him “the most anti‑institutional prime minister of the post‑1974 era”. PASOK...), meanwhile, frames the revision as an attempt to “constitutionally entrench deeply reactionary, anti
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Athens calibrates domestic and diplomatic response to Iran war as tension with Turkey resurfaces
PoliticsGreek Politicsof Europe. At home, the government is trying to reassure the public. Gerapetritis says the anti‑ballistic and anti‑air umbrella has been “upgraded and deployed”, and that Souda Bay in Crete, home to a US... oil reserves and strategic position - could replace Turkey as Washington’s key partner. A recent Wall
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Greece and the euro: The flight of Icarus
Agorahit a brick wall. It lacked the conviction to make the tough changes in the public sector, to make... pace. Opposing it are SYRIZA, an anti-austerity leftist party on the rise, and Golden Dawn, a racist
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In hindsight it would have been nicer
Agoraon the 5th of June after its contents were leaked by the Wall Street Journal's Matina Stevis, the IMF openly... economic and social ruins, as last week's murder of anti-fascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas underlined
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Newsletter 58 - 15/01/2016
to do things differently and hopes to mould his party into a more liberal, pro-reformist and anti.... Speaking to the Wall Street Journal this week, Labour Minister Giorgos Katrougalos said that SYRIZA has
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From Berlin to Brexit
Agoramarket economists in the UK, for instance, indicated that the anti-EU sentiment tended to be bigger... bloody turmoil and division, one can read the surname of a Soviet soldier who scratched it into the wall
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