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  1. Greece trying to lay 'phantom' pensions to rest
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    Society

    One of the main problems the Greek state faced at the start of the crisis was putting right the obvious public administration inefficiencies that had become an undue burden on the country’s finances while also being a source of gross unfairness. An exam...

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  2. Will Tsipras move to centre stage to secure deal with lenders?
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    largely maintained its diffuse power structure (a result of its birth as a coalition of somewhat... direction is telling. Factions There are several centres of power within SYRIZA. One is the small... within the government, even leading to thoughts of removing Panousis’s portfolio from the Interior

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  3. Mitsotakis sworn in as prime minister as attention turns to Cabinet picks

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    to deal with the crisis-ridden electricity utility Public Power Corporation, which made a loss of more... to spin off a “small PPC” unit, which SYRIZA shelved when they came to power in 2015. In a nod... Dendias are tipped to return to former posts at the Labour and Interior Ministries respectively

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  4. Athens expands survey area off Crete, signs MoU with Egypt
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    Exclusive Economic Zone. In 2019, before signing its memorandum with Turkey, Libya reacted against...). This was calculated by moving its median line northwards. After the signing of the Turkey-Libya memorandum in 2019, new data was generated and Libya could argue that the entire area south of Crete

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  5. Government hopes new affordable homes bill can help alleviate housing pressure
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    has eroded purchasing power. Housing costs now consume a disproportionate share of household income... speculative buying, particularly in central Athens, where entire apartment blocks have been converted... In Thessaloniki, nominal rents for apartments up to 80 sqm reached 10.55 euros per Sqm, surging 17.6

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  6. PM brings law and order back onto agenda as foreign policy issues dominate
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    furor over Greece’s exclusion from the Berlin Conference on Libya, much of the political debate... revealed that he believes New Democracy was voted to power mainly because voters trusted..., particularly self-styled anarchists, has been high on the government’s agenda since it came to power

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  7. Troika inquiry: talk to the organ grinder, not the monkey

    Agora

    ’s judgment on specific reforms – such as dismantling Greek workers’ bargaining power in the labor... creditor economies to change. It takes two to tango, and it took both debtors and creditors to lay a web... a worldview, backed by an asymmetry of power, in which moral hazard exists only for debtors, and in which

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  8. SYRIZA's long, slow march
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    Agora

    the WSJ. “We hoped that we could change the balance of power in Europe very fast. It’s clear that we... in the single currency area. As a narrative, it made sense to a great extent. The nub, though, lay... of its long, slow march to change the balance of power in Europe. *This article appeared in last

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  9. Poll spells worse trouble for PM than concerns of party turmoil

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    intention to lay the groundwork for a possible broader, and more serious rebellion, is evident from the fact... because “he is afraid of the political cost and wants to remain in power.” Just 18 percent said... that overall the coalition is mostly interested in remaining in power rather than fulfilling its

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  10. The whole truth and nothing but the truth
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    Agora

    that the responsibility for the 2009 deficit lay with the New Democracy government led by Kostas... the country after taking power in late 2009. To continue this charade would be as devious as the actions... began in 2013, not in 2015 when SYRIZA and Independent Greeks (ANEL) came to power. If the purpose

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