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Vaccination politics intensify as Greece races to plug immunity gap
PoliticsGreek Politicsto the streets. Wednesday saw the first mass anti-vax rallies in Greece, with police estimating..., including at the recent anti-labour law rallies, they also mark a scaling-up from the much smaller-scale anti-lockdown and anti-mask demonstrations which took place during the lockdown, while the presence
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Down but not out: Golden Dawn rears its head again
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Agora. In September, a Golden Dawn member stabbed to death an anti-fascist rapper, Pavlos Fyssas, in a Piraeus... boosted support among its core i.e. young, male, anti-systemic voters,” says Elias Dinas, a UK-based... and an expert on right-wing radicalism, notes that a big chunk of the anti-fascist movement in Greece
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Countering a regressive and illiberal Europe
Agora. This leads to a growing spirit of ‘anti-cooperation’; a spirit which, at all levels of political life..., the politics of fear, and anti-cooperation are not just European phenomena. A glance across... economy. If they fail, anti-EU and anti-liberal forces will prevail and the resulting polarisation
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Political wrangling instead of vaccines
Agoramedicine teams, and priority is given to citizens over the age of 65 and other risk groups. Anti-vaxxers are growing stronger While citizens are awaiting their dose, the anti-vaxxer movement in B&H... the amount of misinformation in the public are regularly attacked. When anti-vaxxer readers
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Newsletter 305 - 16/07/2021
Vaccines turn political PM announces compulsory jabs for some, prompting first major anti-vax... anti-vax rallies in Greece, with police estimating that 4,000 marchers gathered in central Athens... is smaller than those seen habitually in Greece, including at the recent anti-labour law rallies
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Beyond conspiracy theories: How mismanagement shaped vaccination in Albania
Agorain the rise of anti-vaccine sentiment that precedes COVID, and has exacerbated since. But it has been... surveys that measure anti-vaccine sentiment in Albania. A quick search conducted in English and Albanian... and the spread of conspiracy theories online have propelled forward a dangerous anti-vaccine movement
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Tear gas instead of vaccines
Agoraand with mass anti-vaccination protests, it is obvious that the vaccination campaign in Slovenia... requirement. However, these are not the only anti-government protests. Last Friday, disgruntled citizens... to protest the government on Fridays, the faction that was closer to anti-vaccination views and conspiracy
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Effort to keep Greek-Turkish ties on even keel put under stress
PoliticsForeign Policyasked Greece again to send heavy weapons, like tanks and anti-aircraft systems, to Kiev. Washington... in late February via Poland anti-tank weapons as well as confiscated Kalashnikovs. Greece has also in storage anti-tank RPG18. These weapons could be sent to Ukraine without any complications
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Lest we forget
Agoranot be forgotten that in opposition, Samaras relied on doses of reckless populism to lead the anti-bailout... current satisfaction at seeing known racists and anti-Semites in custody should not cloud the fact... blocked an anti-racism bill put forward by coalition partners PASOK and Democratic Left
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Topsy-turvy ride continues for Independent Greeks, as another MP goes
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreece’s quirky anti-bailout party, Independent Greeks, found itself minus one MP on Monday... to its anti-austerity, anti-bailout agenda. He said he had voiced concerns about the inclusion in Independent Greeks of what he termed “anti-memorandum transvestites”. Kammenos’s decision to remove Davris
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