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Rise of small parties creates pre- and post-election complications
PoliticsGreek Politicsbut also suggesting that post-election politics could be more turbulent than the centre-right leader
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OPEKEPE, Predator and Ankara tension set tone for post-Easter politics
PoliticsGreek PoliticsA compressed, post‑Easter political week opens in Athens with the government facing simultaneous pressure on two domestic fronts - the OPEKEPE case files and the revived surveillance affair - while also navigating a sharp rhetorical clash with Ankara and preparing for Emmanuel Macron’s visit later
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Minister pledges swift resolution as public anger over rail crash mounts
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the crash, the minister said that although human error was probably a factor, the appropriate safety... criticised for rushing to blame human error in his first response to the crash. Gerapetritis... which relieved the network operator and its private contractors of the obligation to deliver
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PM forced to adjust line over deadly train crash amid public anger
PoliticsGreek Politicson lifestyle issues such as book recommendations. However, this Sunday’s post carried a much more sombre... not want to, and we must not hide behind the human error.” In his televised address last Wednesday, hours after the fatal accident, Mitsotakis had suggested that the crash was mainly down to human error
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Newsletter 418 - 29/03/2024
that human error was solely to blame for the accident that killed 57 people last year. However... that led to their botched execution. He also stood by the government's claim that human error... since 2019 and more than 18 pct in the post-pandemic era. The ministry also points out that Greece
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Athens homing in on non-permanent seat at UNSC
PoliticsForeign Policyfor the period 2025-2026. Greece previously held this post in 1952-1953. For Greece to expand its geopolitical... boundaries within the so-called “Blue Homeland” doctrine, which includes the Turkey-Libya maritime... mistake for Greece's effort to secure a post at the UNSC to be received by other members as being
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Down but not out: Golden Dawn rears its head again
Agoraas spring boards – a model seen at work in Antwerp, the base of Belgium's far right Vlaams Belang
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Central gov't cash surplus reaches 1.19 bln in Q1, up 54.3 pct YoY
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece’s central government primary cash surplus widened by 54.3 percent yer on year (YoY) to 1.19 billion euros in the first quarter (Q1) of 2015 from 771 million last year, according to the Bank of Greece (BoG). The quarterly evolution mainly reflects the performance in March, when this year’s
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Privatisation chief sees gradual progress but revenues remain unclear
Economythat the preferred bidder as well as the two substitute candidates, namely CASA (Corporation America)–METKA
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Tempe rail crash charges reignite debate about scrupulousness of investigation
PoliticsGreek Politicsrepresentatives and employees of the contractor were charged with instigation of subsidy fraud... signalling-telecommand systems, but the contractor attempted to construct an entirely new signalling system
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