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New asylum law comes up against old failings
Agoraof Europe,” Peter Gatrell’s book on migration to and within Europe since 1945, the historian... the country’s approach to refugees, drawing heavily on the structure of the Dutch welfare system. “Few... of cases and that the IND appeals the remaining verdicts, overturning the Council of State’s ruling
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Newsletter 235 -17/01/2020
Katerina Sakellaropoulou as his party’s candidate to become Greece’s first female head of state. Sakellaropoulou’s appointment (following the recent revision of the constitution, she is certain...). At the time, the prime minister’s claim that there were not enough capable women willing to step
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ND vies for more support on migration, gets tangled up in football controversy
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreece’s way. Deployed EASO staff will double from approximately 500 to over 1,000 during 2020... in two separate meetings, when he will have a chance to explain Greece’s position. While gaining more support from the EU and Greece’s European partners is high on the government’s agenda
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New Turkish NAVTEX undermines Greek-Turkish reconciliation efforts
PoliticsForeign PolicyNAVTEX is “illegal”, as are the imminent “surveys south of Kastellorizo on Greece’s continental shelf... committed to proposing a date for the exploratory talks, Turkey’s unreliability and the fact that it does... hours earlier, Turkey’s Foreign Ministry’s spokesman who accused Greece of “insincerity” for what
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Many obstacles to clear in Greece's digital leap
EconomyFeaturesof government and the economy” as a critical step in achieving “Greece’s leap into the future, placing... in the technology sector. Digital transformation formed a key plank of New Democracy’s reform agenda, and the government’s ambitions include making Greece “digital by default” by 2023. How realistic
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Newsletter 280 -15/01/2020
Democracy’s election campaign focussed on bringing efficiency to the way Greece is governed and condemning what was perceived, at least, as SYRIZA’s ideologically driven policy making, such as increasing... sensitivities. However, as the pandemic has rolled on, opinion polls have suggested that some of ND’s
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Set-to in Ankara well received in Athens, where Covid-19 data causes worry
PoliticsGreek PoliticsFriday’s news agenda in Greece was dominated by the terse exchanges a day earlier between the Greek... Covid-19 data for the country’s health authorities. Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias was largely praised... sought to play down the exchange, saying that Dendias was simply repeating Greece’s long-held positions
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Newsletter 309 - 24/09/2021
is growing more intense, especially against the backdrop of snap election rumours, but SYRIZA’s attempt... interventions. Labelling his collection of measures a “New Beginning” for Greece, Tsipras’s proposals... administration’s labour reforms as one of its most contentious policies, the SYRIZA chief said that he would
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Parties hone strategies ahead of confidence vote
PoliticsGreek PoliticsSYRIZA has attempted to raise the political stakes following this week’s snowstorm by triggering... and then wreaked havoc across the city. The opposition party points out, for instance, that PM Mitsotakis’s... debate that will precede Sunday’s confidence vote, arguing that Mitsotakis is shying away from his
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Newsletter 331 - 11/03/2022
as a threat to his government’s popularity, and hopes of a clear win in the next elections, Prime Minister... of the EU’s wholesale gas market and the “outlandish prices” being paid by electricity producers... von der Leyen, centre on the idea of introducing a price cap. Apart from Mitsotakis’s price cap
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