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Macedonia and other Greek words
Agoraand is not the most conducive backdrop against which to solve what has been one of the country’s top... to this shortly, but one of the main driving forces behind Mitsotakis’s hardline stance is his fear.... However, the argument that the main opposition party can dismiss the outcome before talks
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Newsletter 163 -25/05/2018
. The government sees the main areas of focus as being energy, the cyclical economy, agriculture... to test their parties’ main lines of argument. Tsipras argued that the opposition parties (New Democracy... that Tsipras has to play. It is certain to be one of the main pillars of the party’s election campaign
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Last-minute labour amendment, university asylum law fuel political row as third bill passes
PoliticsGreek Politicsemployees’ compensation rights. Also, firms are no longer responsible for ensuring that sub-contractors abide by labour regulations. The sub-contractor is responsible for ensuring workers’ rights...-contractors they use and employees having the right to take legal action against employers even
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Approach to protests, policing poses a new quandary for government
PoliticsGreek PoliticsParliament’s courtyard earlier this week and unfurled a banner in front of the main entrance. The failure... in his newspaper article. Education Minister Aristides Baltas, who has seen Athens University’s main... portfolio from the Interior Ministry to the Justice Ministry amid concerns that Panousis
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To Potami intensifies efforts to mop up disgruntled Greek voters
PoliticsGreek Politicsand probably one of the main barriers to the party gaining further traction in opinion polls. Three surveys... and reform-minded New Democracy followers are the main targets for his message along with floating... and the unusual nature of his party, is now likely to step up efforts to lure voters to To Potami
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Erdogan makes forceful start to visit, catches Athens off guard
PoliticsForeign Policy. The Turkish president is due to visit Thrace on Friday for the first time since 2005. The unusual... the European Union and Turkey. One of the Greek coalition’s main short-term concerns is that if the EU... will lose the main leverage point it has had in its dealings with its neighbour and will need to rely
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Tsipras and Kammenos set aside speculation and focus on coalition's key goals
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreece since January 2015. Despite the reservations in both camps about this unusual cooperation... be halted. Key goals For now, though, the two coalition parties will focus on the main tasks ahead, as set.... “This coalition was formed with two main aims: Firstly, to get Greece out of the memorandums, surveillance
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Newsletter 172 -27/07/2018
that is unusual for such circumstances in Greece, when parties are usually focused on shifting blame on each... northeast of Athens, New Democracy’s main line of attack will be that SYRIZA has failed to make any... has improved by 849.5 million. Improvements in all main subcomponents drove the improvement
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Tsipras reaches settlement with church, aiming to subdue critics
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe church and state, some of which date back decades. The unusual sight of Tsipras and Archbishop... of the agreement. The main elements of the deal are: the state recognises that in 1939 it obtained church... of property. This reaction perhaps underlines that Tsipras’s main political goal in making the deal
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The first cut is the deepest? Greek pension reforms in context
EconomyFeaturesPENSIONS MASSACRE”. Projected on the backdrop, a dense table of numbers several columns wide defies... future ones. These cuts have been capped at 18 percent of main and supplementary pensions... households in Greece rely on a pension as their main source of income. In a surprising defence of what
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