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Reopening public broadcaster poses multiple challenges for Tsipras
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe unusual step of presiding over the committee herself. As we have highlighted before... will have strong public backing if it attempts to restore some order in private broadcasting, where... circumstances. However, if Tsipras is seen as targeting private media and favouring ERT in order to control
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Tsipras encounters obstacle in efforts to secure church deal
PoliticsGreek Politicsalso sees maintaining strong ties with the church as vital in order to keep its conservative supporters on board. Opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis took the unusual step of suggesting that Archbishop... bribed in order to secure the purchase of the C4I security system for the 2004 Athens Olympics
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Newsletter 205 -10/05/2019
elections. EC sees growth of 2.2 pct in 2019 Spring forecast expects growth but warns over public... showed that it is now expecting the country to grow by 2.2 percent this year compared to an estimation... growth is anticipated to reach 2.2 percent this year and in 2020, a negative effect could manifest
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Off the isles of Greece
Agoraexplanation and has called for an investigation. The Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human.... A small country with few resources and little money to spend has been given a tall order. This creates... fellow human beings. Too often over the years, Greece has been criticised for its treatment
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Greece treads carefully, hoping to avoid blowback from failed coup in Turkey
PoliticsForeign Policythe officers to be in a position to claim their human rights have been neglected by the Greek state and face future action at the European Court of Human Rights. Right from the start, the Greek government’s... hand, the government is concerned that some SYRIZA deputies are raising the issue of human rights
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ND looks to asylum bill, strong rhetoric to ease pressure from migration flows
PoliticsGreek Politicsof refugee flows, combating human trafficking and more funds to support asylum seekers to rebuild... with Turkey in order to deter migrants from crossing. Concerned that it is now also facing a high number... assembly later this week, has been criticised by human rights groups. Groups including Amnesty
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Newsletter 373 - 10/03/2023
of the crash, the minister said that although human error was probably a factor, the appropriate... the fatal accident, Mitsotakis had suggested that the crash was mainly down to human error... aware of this,” wrote the PM. “We cannot, we do not want to, and we must not hide behind human
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ND suffers ratings blow after train crash, hopes time is on its side
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe accident was a matter of human error or whether there are other issues that needed to be discussed... by the human error argument that Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis initially offered as an explanation... some of the measures it has promised in order to get trains running again, under safer conditions
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New political storm heads towards PM following report on Tempe recordings
PoliticsGreek Politicsconnected to the Tempe train crash in order to make the claim that the accident was solely the result of human error more plausible. Sunday’s edition of To Vima contained a report which claimed... in the Greek media was edited. The government added in its official response that the “human error” element
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Deadly collision throws spotlight on government’s migration policy
PoliticsGreek Politicson the incident, adding that the rules of engagement must prioritise human lives, while SYRIZA leader Sokratis Famellos accused Plevris of rushing to deliver a verdict in order to justify the deaths.... The proposals have been condemned by human rights advocates for violating international law, but also
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