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  1. Greece aims to bolster Balkan role to dull impact of EU veto for Skopje, Tirana
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    of the agreement, which provides for the change of existing domestic documents and materials. Subparagraph (b) foresees a “political” transitional period which “shall relate to all documents and materials exclusively for internal usage (…) the issuance of documents and materials falling under this category

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  2. Govt’s “zero tolerance” approach to violent protest provokes accusations of authoritarianism
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    penalties for possessing rioting materials. Over the weekend, police conducted a raid on the Athens..., bottles and broken building materials which it claims were intended for use in riots. The intensifying... in parliament include the criminalisation of the possession a Molotov cocktail and other rioting materials

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  3. Underlining stress on Greek society, suicide rate doubled in first years of economic crisis

    Society

    Since 77-year-old Dimitris Christoulas put a gun to his head a few metres from Greek Parliament and shot himself in April 2012, suicides gained a prominent and painful place in the narrative of the Greek crisis. In a suicide note, Christoulas decried the government and its austerity policies. His

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  4. An issue of statistical significance in Greece

    Agora

    than 1 percent of GDP in 2009. To put things in perspective, the only period in the last 20 years

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  5. Taking a macro snapshot

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    government that put aside any debate over Greece’s euro membership. The doubt over Greece’s future

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  6. Honey, I shrunk the Greeks

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    the debt restructuring was put on the table, vast majority of the eurozone and the IMF’s financing

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  7. Ring of Fire

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    with tear gas and batons on the other, too many lives have been put at risk. So, ahead

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  8. Polls show Golden Dawn support dropping after murder, New Democracy profiting most

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    by a Golden Dawn member. The Alco poll put New Democracy first on 21 percent and SYRIZA second on 19.2 percent

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  9. Who’s afraid of Angela Merkel?

    Agora

    Angela Merkel triumphed in the German elections. The 41.5 percent gained by the CDU/CSU put her in the same league as her conservative predecessors, Konrad Adenauer and Helmut Kohl. While most of Europe hoped for a different outcome, Germans opted for Mutti (mummy) Angela. Her simple message

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  10. Sharper drop for retail sales in July points to lingering recession

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    understanding is that Greek households prefer to put the little spare money they have in their banking accounts

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