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China’s Footprint in Southeast Europe: Constructing the "Balkan Silk Road"
Agoraon a report which the author has written for the EBRD in London. The full report is available... and Infrastructure Footprint China’s economic cooperation with Serbia has expanded significantly... since it has trade agreements with the EU, Turkey and Russia. It also enjoys a level of political
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A year of risk and reward for Greece
Agorathat contributed to one of the most damaging economic crises the developed world has seen. If everything goes to plan (admittedly, it rarely has during the past eight years), the third programme’s third review... has to be produced next year and every year until 2022. After that (and subject to what is agreed
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Newsletter 148 -26/01/2018
further when he addressed his party’s political committee on Wednesday. He claimed that Tsipras has... to address the fact that his coalition partner, Defence Minister Panos Kammenos, has a different... a line under the matter, he hopes to prevent any rifts from emerging within his own party. Skopje has
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Government takes another stab at media regulation among growing scepticism
Societyof debate in most healthy democracies, the government of Alexis Tsipras has staked a large part of its... the late 1980s, however the regulatory framework for commercial broadcasting has historically been... of the financial crisis has made people more distrustful of public institutions in general, the Greek media must
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Newsletter 158 -20/04/2018
is on the fiscal side, where the IMF has so far indicated that it believes Greece will have to reduce... year should not be implemented in 2019. Greece’s position has the support of the European Commission..., Greece also has plenty on its plate as well. Athens has the vast majority of the 88 prior actions
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A campaign that leaves Greece in pain
Agora– the first vote in Greece since the general elections of September 2015 – has confirmed the dire state... attempts to argue that Greece’s centre-right party has to be defeated as part of an EU-wide effort... the future of the EU and Greece’s place in it. The campaign has been little more than a proxy war
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EU elections in Greece: Applying a different scale of values
Agorafigures are best assessed from a distance. “When the perspective of time has lengthened, all stands...’ thoughts. Also, when there has been a notable shift there is a temptation to exaggerate its importance... populism in Greece either started, or has finished, with SYRIZA’s troubled reign. Populism in the everyday
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The "great replacement" comes to Greece - how a far-right meme appeared in mainstream politics
Society-religious agenda, which has adopted the vocabulary of the “great replacement” theory popular... and pseudo-scientific theories, while the subject of abortion rights has been brought to the fore by fringe.... While many of these groups have been in existence for decades, their membership has been steadily
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Newsletter 248 -24/04/2020
from the virus has passed and Greek politics, as well as daily life, can start returning to what might.... The government has put together a special task force focussing on ways to reopen the tourism sector..., building on the confidence that Greece has earned in the markets and in its handling of the pandemic
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Newsletter 286 - 26/02/2021
of the National Theatre earlier this month. Much of the opposition’s attention has been focussed on Culture... almost three weeks ago. SYRIZA has called for Mendoni to resign, if not for appointing Lignadis..., will also help switch the focus to other matters. Top of the agenda is a labour reform bill, which has been
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