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New Democracy tries to win over voters with crackdown on bank charges, migration
PoliticsGreek Politicsseverely brain-damaged after being beaten and sexually assaulted by a Pakistani migrant on the island... politician met with EU interior ministers on Tuesday in Copenhagen, where he pressed for faster
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Samaras shoots, Samaras scores!
Agora“Samaras rescues Greece” – it’s the headline the prime minister and many in his office would have cherished. But Giorgos Samaras, the striker without a club, has beaten premier Antonis to the title... can progress. It is the type of feeling that political parties pay advertising agencies millions
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This is where the last few days have left Greece and lenders
Agorain the next few weeks the volume and type of tax and pension measures Athens will have to adopt, as well as the counter-measures that will be triggered if future fiscal targets are beaten. Once
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Tsipras and Mitsotakis cheer Macron win, hope to benefit
PoliticsGreek Politicshopes. Tsipras tweeted shortly after it emerged that Macron had beaten far-right rival Marine Le Pen... for a different type of fillip from Macron than Tsipras. The prospect of France being able to steer
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For better or worse: Greece's bailout exit deja vu
Agoranear the end of 2014? Was there really any other type of deal on the table, then or now? Fiscal targets... tax rates and investment spending if targets were beaten. All crisis governments had first-hand
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Budget primary surplus at 7.61 bln in November as expenditure curtailed
EconomyMacroeconomyexpenditure came to 37.35 billion euros and was below target by 1.25 billion. Net revenues came to 45.60... to 45.60 billion euros in the aggregate period, above target by 636 million euros, and showing YoY
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Countering a regressive and illiberal Europe
Agorais at stake is much more than the EU itself: it is the danger of a regressive and illiberal Europe – a Europe... dominating the public discourse. The key trend that is playing into the hands of those who advocate this type... objective: to strengthen their influence and power at home. What can be done to counter the danger of a more
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Approach to protests, policing poses a new quandary for government
PoliticsGreek Politics. Striking the right balance between ensuring that SYRIZA does not give police the type of free reign... portfolio from the Interior Ministry to the Justice Ministry amid concerns that Panousis and Interior Minister Nikos Voutsis did not see eye to eye. It was notable that Justice Minister Nikos
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Newsletter 277 -11/12/2020
PM rebuffs Covid-19 criticism Mitsotakis defends govt stance but is forced to extend some measures until Jan After being forced to extend Covid-19 restrictions into January, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis tried to defend this week his, and his gover...
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Parliament's bailout probe has potential to be politically toxic
PoliticsGreek Politics. There is a danger that the memorandum inquiry and the Georgiou probe will fuel populist... Pavlopoulos, who was interior minister in Karamanlis’s government and one of the former New Democracy’s
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