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  1. Episode 8 - Athens: An ancient city grappling with modern problems

    Agora

    In this episode, we take to the streets of our home city, Athens, to get an idea of what interventions would improve life in the Greek capital. Our producer Phoebe Fronista speaks to MacroPolis features writer Georgia Nakou about the Great Walk, a pilot...

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  2. Greek pensions laid bare
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    pensions amounts to 884 euros. Note, though, that for around 45 percent of pensioners their monthly... and they receive on average monthly pensions of 771 euros. This is below the overall average of 884 euros since

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  3. Coalition's ideological contrasts highlighted but Kammenos quashes rift talk
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    spoke of Greece having to emerge from its adjustment programmes as a modern state rather than... a row that broke out a day earlier after parliamentary speaker Nikos Voutsis, also a SYRIZA MP... Nikos Fylis attempted to change textbooks for religion classes in schools, prompting an intervention

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  4. New Parliament sworn in as Mitsotakis picks top civil servants, maintains status quo with church
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    To Potami MP Giorgos Mavrotas as general secretary for sports. Mavrotas, a former water polo player

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  5. Fighting fake news is a "to be or not to be" battle
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    Agora

    this information threat ‘infodemic’. Before him, the President of the WHO, Tedros Gebresius, said the same

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  6. Sparks to fly as coalition and SYRIZA clash over electricity sell-off

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    discussion at committee level was due to begin on Wednesday. PPC workers’ union, GENOP-DEI, is opposed.... SYRIZA sees this as an opportunity to strengthen its relationship with GENOP-DEI, one of Greece’s

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  7. Electricity strike nipped in bud, leaving political loose ends

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    threatening the strikers with arrest if they did not return to work. Their union, GENOP-DEI, announced... to end the protest. This swift move to nip GENOP-DEI’s action in the bud seems to have been due

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  8. The Cyprus conundrum
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    Agora

    of guarantees does not sit comfortably with the concept of a modern sovereign state. However... will repeat itself as farce. *Dr Nikos Skoutaris is a lecturer in EU law at the University of East Anglia...: @NikosSkoutaris Nikos Skoutaris

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  9. Coalition's role in freight terminal contract, public broadcaster under attack
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    into a modern, impartial broadcaster rather than a government mouthpiece but its efforts have largely... Minister Nikos Fylis and the “53” faction complaining about developments at ERT. The feeling in some parts of the leftist party seemed to be that Digital Policy Minister Nikos Pappas was exercising too

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  10. Competing claims and narratives in Eastern Mediterranean

    Agora

    State narratives. Given the state of affairs in the modern world, this is to be expected...’ messengers. They may not bring good news, but at least they do not offer false promises. *Dr Nikos... and EU law. You can follow him on Twitter. Nikos Skoutaris

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