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The nightmare of our choice
Agoratwo years has been like Marlow’s: As we picked our way through crumpled, charred train carriages... – it has been corroded by our own caustic mix of inefficiency and selfishness. As the Financial Times... is threatening to bring our Potemkin village of success crashing down. Two years on from the tragedy, nobody has
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Newsletter 60 - 29/01/2016
with an annual income of less than 30,000, no official proposal has been brought to the table. Appearing... Minister for Migration Policy Yiannis Mouzalas has pledged that this will be done by the end of February... on the islands are sceptical about whether this target will be met. Nevertheless, the government has struck
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Newsletter 14 - 06/02/2015
the temporary arrangement is in place. The broader agreement, to be clinched before Greece has to pay.... The government has around 1.5 billion euros in cash reserves and about the same amount from general... Parliament, this one will reject them out of hand. Instead, what Varoufakis has indicated that Athens
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After an international agreement comes the domestic politics
Agora) counterpart Zoran Zaev will hold. In the short-term, Zaev has committed to putting the deal to a referendum... on both sides. Skopje has apparently accepted that it will have to change the country’s name from..., in other words domestically and internationally. Furthermore, Zaev has agreed to review his country’s
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Newsletter 444 - 06/12/2024
by the state intelligence service. The PM has tried to draw a line under the affair by promising an investigation, but the PASOK leader has accused him of trying to sweep it under the carpet without... to disagree on specific policy proposals that PASOK has been putting forward in recent days, including
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Newsletter 28 - 29/05/2015
The Greek government has insisted over the last few days that an agreement with lenders is possible over... of the issues at stake. So far, there has been no agreement on the fiscal targets for 2015... secured by Sunday, or June 5, when Greece has to pay the IMF 300 million euros, is very slim. common
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Newsletter 43 - 18/09/2015
in comparison with the vote it received in January, meaning it has to draw support from other parties... in opposition than New Democracy will be. Given that SYRIZA has repeatedly given assurances..., the Finance Ministry has to adopt a supplementary 2015 budget, the draft 2016 budget and a 2016–19
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Newsletter 59 - 22/01/2016
, comprised of labour and finance ministry officials and lawyer, doctor and engineer representatives, has... investments of 270 million are included. This is the third privatisation project that has been..., are in no mood to make the first bailout review an easy process and, at the same time, Greek society has
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(Dis)Integration of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the European Union
AgoraHistory has shown that, over the centuries, people have strived for progress and change.... On the contrary - the context in which we have lived for the last 20 years has given rise to a number of populist... expressing its commitment to the EU. On the road to membership, Bosnia and Herzegovina has had periods
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Newsletter 381 - 19/05/2023
election was due to wrap up on Friday with opinion polls indicating that New Democracy has... has suggested that he does not want to cooperate with the centre-left party, blaming its leader... possible.” The prime minister has been trying to create a sense of commonality with centrist PASOK voters
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