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Newsletter 149 -2/02/2018
to grow by a steady rate of 0.9 to 1.1 percent, residential real estate values will drop marginally...) retail sales index fell by 0.9 percent month-on-month to 71.3 in November, while volume fell by 1.1... 2014 as year starts on positive foot As confidence returned, the ESI has gradually improved
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Newsletter 196 -01/03/2019
economic sentiment (ESI) rose by 1.7 points to 101.3 in February compared to a reading of 99.6 in January... this threshold and is the strongest score in the last three months. Compared to February 2018, the ESI has... 2018, the ESI has fallen by 2.6 points. Retail turnover rises by 0.5 pct in Dec Average increase
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Govt mulls more freedoms for vaccinated, while arrest highlights evolving far-right networks
PoliticsGreek Politicsby a far-right group on anti-racism activists over the weekend provides further evidence... in an apparently organised assault on members of an anti-racism group, one of the attackers who was identified... which are believed to have adopted many of the tactics of Golden Dawn, including the organisation
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Kammenos calls for lynching of mayor but ends up boxing himself into a corner
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPanos Kammenos and his anti-bailout Independent Greeks have been showing remarkable resilience... being forced out of New Democracy. It has a rudimentary anti-bailout, nationalist platform... willingness to discuss cooperating with SYRIZA to form an anti-bailout government in the future did
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Divided we fall?
Agora, the country started to split into the pro- and anti-memorandum camps: There were those who felt only... Antonis Samaras became the arch-proponent of the anti-memorandum line, feeding the populism that saw...-Nazis of Golden Dawn. The seeds of division were sown. However, as the programme progressed
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The "great replacement" comes to Greece - how a far-right meme appeared in mainstream politics
SocietyGolden Dawn at the polls, there are worrying signs that some of the extreme ideas once associated..., particularly those of a quasi-religious or nationalistic nature, such as the anti-Prespes movement... as false or misleading. The Athens Metro poster copies an anti-abortion internet meme which misrepresents
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Big two parties strengthen grip on voters, but dominance remains elusive
PoliticsGreek PoliticsBogdanos, an independent MP who was expelled by ND a year ago after making a series of incendiary anti-immigration and anti-Communist statements which embarrassed the ruling party. Bogdanos formed a short... at controversial events with the now-defunct neonazi Golden Dawn party and its offshoot Greeks
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Samaras shoots, Samaras scores!
Agora“Samaras rescues Greece” – it’s the headline the prime minister and many in his office would have cherished. But Giorgos Samaras, the striker without a club, has beaten premier Antonis to the title... - pro-memorandum vs anti-memorandum, New Democracy vs SYRIZA, far-right vs anyone else – the unity
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Outdoor gatherings with hint of protest raise concerns over relaxation of lockdown
PoliticsGreek Politicsincident a complaint has been filed against police by a local resident who claims to have been beaten... their lives during an anti-MoU protest march. Alexis Tsipras’s decision to turn down an invitation
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Second round of local elections deliver worrying results for PM, glimmer of hope for opposition
PoliticsGreek Politicsaccusations that Agorastos had not proceeded with anti-flooding works and defended his record as governor. However, he was soundly beaten by Dimitris Kouretas, a candidate put forward by centre-left PASOK
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