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Search for solutions, not scapegoats in EU's refugee crisis
Agoraon, the picture is very different: all around Greece countries are building fences to keep migrants out... skippers one of the island’s two patrol boats. In December 2014, Karakontis and his crew received an award... that one of the ideas mentioned during an EU interior ministers’ meeting last week was for a large refugee
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Vast majority of Athens homeless ended up on streets during crisis
Societya fifth lived with their families. One in ten are former prisoners. Of the non-Greek nationals.... One fifth of the total homeless (21.7 percent) said they had lost their home in the last year... to be restricted, one 51-year-old male interviewee told the researchers. Seven in ten are rough sleepers
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Newsletter 79 - 24/06/2016
, “easily one of the most ill-conceived and profoundly damaging political events of Britain’s post-war... of reform with pain. “I want to reconcile reforms with progress,” he said. One might argue... bloody turmoil and division, one can read the surname of a Soviet soldier who scratched it into the wall
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From Berlin to Brexit
Agorathe decades. It was, as Jeremy Cliffe put it in his Bagehot column in The Economist, “easily one of the most... the idea of reform with pain. “I want to reconcile reforms with progress,” he said. One might argue... bloody turmoil and division, one can read the surname of a Soviet soldier who scratched it into the wall
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Newsletter 87 - 09/09/2016
on Friday meant that the focus was very much on finding common ground on issues such as growth... be sent back to Greece, it sounded like one of the most ludicrous things uttered by a European politician recently, or at least one that suggested a complete ignorance of the situation on the ground. Let’s
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Greek Pharmaceuticals: The little pill with big potential
EconomyFeatures- it contributes around 2.8 billion euros to GDP annually, according to the Greek government, and is one... medicines and prototypes. In January 2015, for example, pharmaceuticals were the number one export product.... This makes the pharma industry a significant one in terms of future economic growth. Looking
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Optimism in Athens as Cyprus talks move into delicate phase
PoliticsForeign Policyis on a good path, and we have to fight to keep it on that path,” he said. “No one can see... administration have been following developments on the Cyprus issue very closely. Obama’s talks... and Akinci in New York that suggested that there could be two more military bases in Cyprus: one
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Greeks tending to shop less often and opt for local products
Societyconducted in 2016, consumers are showing a strong preference for products made locally. One of the main... in the supermarket, they would choose a Greek product over a foreign one (based on choice alone and not the final... survey and 35.5 percent said that they use more than one source for their household shopping (53.3
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Judicial system becomes key battleground for political parties
PoliticsGreek Politicsin Greece as a potential weak spot for the government, or at least one where New Democracy can... among many moderate Greeks. Rising tension The Greek judiciary has tended to be a very conservative.... One flashpoint came last October, when the Council of State deemed the TV permit tender held
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Greek population among highest for poverty risk, Eurostat survey shows
SocietyDay for the Eradication of Poverty on October 17 showed that Greece has one of the highest... to the EU, one of the Europe 2020 initiative’s targets is to reduce poverty by “lifting at least 20... from 20.1 percent in 2008. Translating as roughly one in five people, Greece had the seventh highest
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