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PASOK and Potami divided over direction to take after Mitsotakis win
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPASOK and To Potami have been feeling the aftershock of Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s win in the New... a potential alliance between the two parties. Her description of a “chasm” lying between PASOK’s...-ed published over the weekend, Gennimata called for Greece’s centre-left to regroup. Her plea seemed
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Brewing dispute with media adds to Tsipras's headaches
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe growing refugee crisis. However, the interview did reveal that Tsipras’s administration seems to be heading for a potentially defining clash with one of the country’s main media barons. During his... to return to Greece after the March 7 Eurogroup. His comments came despite the news that Monday’s Eurogroup
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Greek relief at EU-Turkey refugee deal but heavy lifting lies ahead
PoliticsForeign PolicyGreek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras declared himself satisfied with the outcome of Friday’s EU..., Friday’s pact gives Athens some hope that the number of arrivals will drop as the message will go out... to the plan’s design, all this has to happen over just a few days, whereas asylum appeals in Greece alone
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A misstep away from absurdity
AgoraGreece’s Migration Policy Minister Yiannis Mouzalas could find himself out of a job or demoted... of referring to one of Greece’s neighbours, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM..., which have often dozed off but never disappeared since Greece’s name dispute with its northern
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Discontent in SYRIZA simmers as Tsipras seeks to conclude talks with creditors
PoliticsGreek Politics, as talks with Greece’s lenders resume, after SYRIZA’s largest faction raised a series of objections... the bailout talks and indicate that the faction’s support for Tsipras should not be taken for granted... prominent one, said that while SYRIZA was able to argue during last September’s elections
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Bailout talks inch forward as Juncker comments complicate matters
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAthens’s position. The convergence came on the issue of indirect taxes, with the coalition... euros to 9,091. During talks on Wednesday, the International Monetary Fund’s representatives were said... will be strengthened by the publication of Greece’s 2015 primary surplus results on Thursday. Athens
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From Berlin to Brexit
Agora“So, you are here?” said the check-in attendant at Berlin’s Tegel Airport. The man, who appeared... to Brexit after David Cameron took his fateful decision to hold a referendum on the UK’s membership... in appealing to people’s emotions than Remain, which struggled between highlighting the potential
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Thinking outside of the box
Agoraof accusations about who is genuinely in favour of a free press. The government’s tender for national TV licenses in Greece’s digital network was one trigger for this discussion. This process has been... by the government and more than four channels were already operating, has been questioned. Pappas’s
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Newsletter 86 - 26/08/2016
to figures released by the Greece’s largest main pension fund IKA. This reflects an increase in full... of a Greek bank into IFC’s trade finance programme. The IFC has an exposure of nearly 600 million euros..., and his alleged doctoring of Greece’s 2009 deficit figure. Despite the fact that fingers have been
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Erdogan's questioning of border treaty catches Athens cold
PoliticsForeign Policy’s sovereignty over its Aegean islands, in what is the most serious threat to relations between... for so many decades. This triggered an immediate reaction in Turkey, where the Republican People’s Party (CHP) complained about Erdogan’s statement and accused the president of “betraying” the country’s
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