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  1. Don't celebrate a French reconnection for EU just yet
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    Agora

    the latter have a corrosive effect on the European project. Voter pool More than 7.5 million French... packaging. It has many guises and can be much more insidious than we care to admit. If mainstream... or Beppe Grillo than to admit that something might be wrong. It is true that the EU has taken

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  2. Significant drop in number of Greek citizenships granted
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    Society

    The number of Greek citizenships granted to non-Greeks more than halved in the two years from 2013 to 2015, EU data has shown. Eurostat figures show that there were 7,000 fewer new Greeks in 2015 than in the previous year and 15,500 fewer than in 2013, when the number of new citizenship approvals

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  3. Rise in new overdue taxes slows to 658 mln in March, stock edges up to 94.3 bln
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    of tax debtors dropped for the second successive month by more than 77,900 and landed below the 4-million... at the end of March, of which more than three quarters stemmed from companies (39.1 billion... to an average figure of 293 million per month, which is higher than the monthly average of 206 million

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  4. Tsipras clears hurdle but isn't over finishing line
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    Agora

    Minister Euclid Tsakalotos had once said he would resign rather than reduce the tax-free threshold... of the deal more than he should, especially given the ongoing tug-of-war between the International... a much more attractive legacy than the one he currently has, even if it is unlikely to be enough to get

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  5. Tsipras and Mitsotakis cheer Macron win, hope to benefit
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    of the second than his predecessor. However, Greek hopes of a more influential and supportive presence... intentions could prove no more than that. Mitsotakis’s hopes The New Democracy leader seems to be hoping for a different type of fillip from Macron than Tsipras. The prospect of France being able to steer

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  6. Timetable set for multi-bill vote, Athens hopes for debt progress in meantime
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    that will be considered and a broad pledge, at best, rather than a detailed plan to make Greece’s debt sustainable... for the measures. Putting on his political hat, rather than the institutional one, the SYRIZA MP claimed that New Democracy would have a bigger problem during the vote than the government because it has said

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  7. Net job hirings hit high of 92,132 in April, driving 4-month figure to new record
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    by a wide margin a total of 132,049 departures, of which less than half (48 percent) related to lay... hirings declined to 54.7 percent from less than 58 percent in March, while that for departures also... of 593,052 compared to a total of 486,587 departures. Slightly more than half of the hirings in the first

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  8. Church, democracy and the evil eye: survey reveals Greeks' beliefs
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    Society

    more likely to support democracy than any of the other countries surveyed. Greeks also appear...). Roughly half of respondents said that religion was very important to them, with more women than men... of those over 35, a difference of 26 percent. Greeks aged over 35 were more likely to agree than

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  9. Survey shows 42 pct of Greek expats unlikely to return
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    Society

    or work in tourism businesses. More than half of those surveyed (53 percent) are employees, 17... enough in engaging its highly talented diaspora, rather than considering a lost generation. It cited... rather than losing them to the overseas market.

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  10. IMF hints at flexibility as debt relief talks continue
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    a constructive role in securing a better compromise offer for Greece than the one put forward... primary surplus targets of less than 3.5 percent of GDP after 2022. There has been no clear indication... of respondents believe that conservative leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis would make a better prime minister than

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