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  1. Brussels attacks prompt fears in Athens over handling of refugee crisis

    PoliticsForeign Policy

    is on the German chancellor, who is one of the few EU leaders who believes in the plan and has the weight... as ensure that it has enough capacity at the detention facilities that will be needed. A total... 650,000 Albanians moved to Greece. “So Albania, too, has extensive experience of the movement

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  2. Newsletter 70 - 15/04/2016

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    . Subsequent press reports indicated the government has proposed to lenders an increase in the main VAT rate... on board, possibly with the IMF remaining as a technical adviser until the issue of debt relief has... and that MPs would not vote on the draft laws until a staff level agreement has been reached with the quadriga

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  3. Bailout talks inch forward as Juncker comments complicate matters
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    side has been adamant that it will not accept a larger decrease, with Finance Minister Euclid... towards that direction but this has to be assessed in reality. I was making it perfectly clear when... targets We do think that Greece has made efforts to a huge extend and this now has to be checked

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  4. Locating Europe's pulse in the refugee crisis

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    is experiencing. The catalyst for this quandary over the EU’s raison d’etre has been the arrival of hundreds of thousands of refugees on Europe’s shores since last year. Europe’s response has often seemed... fences have gone up. This has not resembled the progressive, open and self-confident EU that many

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  5. Newsletter 74 - 20/05/2016

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    . In addition, the new privatisation fund, whose title has been officially translated as the Hellenic Company... funding. The vote on Sunday represents the final hurdle that the prime minister has to clear...-off fund in which Greece’s lenders have a considerable say and which has access to a vast array

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  6. A Eurogroup deal that might be hard to stomach

    Agora

    of the Eurogroup means that Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has managed to conclude the review... for around 4.5 billion of liquidity that has been withdrawn. Also significantly for Greece, the debt... that Tsipras has to implement a highly recessionary programme full of direct and indirect taxation

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  7. Newsletter 77 - 10/06/2016

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    . The consumer prices index (CPI) continued to drop, albeit at a slower rate of 0.9 percent in May. Greece has... again to isolate them politically and make it seem that his government has a closer and stronger... not be enough if added to the coalition’s 153 seats. New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis has

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  8. Newsletter 78 - 17/06/2016

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    clearly has much to gain from changing the topic of discussion. Trailing in New Democracy’s wake.... In both cases, reason has collided with emotion. Just as was the case in Greece last year, it was much.... In this era of so-called “post-truth politics”, it has become standard practice for some

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  9. Uncomfortable parallels: The Greek and British referendums
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    Agora

    on European Union membership. In both cases, reason has collided with emotion. Just as in Greece... what they say with facts. In this era of so-called “post-truth politics”, it has become standard... into voting “Yes” because it wanted to protect its interests. The same argument has been made in the UK

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  10. Russia and China prove hot topics in Tsipras-Obama talks at NATO Summit
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    intervention by saying “this is something you ought to tell your friend Putin,” the government has tried... with an aim to end the crisis in Syria. Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias has supported this position for a long time and even Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos has expressed similar views while meeting

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