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Court delivers serious blow over TV permits, gov't vows to fight on
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe opposition for the coalition to resign. PASOK and To Potami immediately called for State Minister Nikos Pappas, who was the architect of the process, to resign. Given that Pappas is Alexis Tsipras’s closest... that the government should resign because of the failure of the TV licence tender
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Tsipras conducts varied reshuffle in further bid to revitalise coalition
PoliticsGreek Politicsbe leaving the Interior Ministry to become SYRIZA’s secretary, several other frontline officials... role is Alexis Haritsis. The 41-year-old was appointed interior minister, replacing the outgoing... is one of the few cabinet members to emerge with his reputation relatively intact. The Interior
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Newsletter 417 - 22/03/2024
by the Interior Ministry, a Greek prosecutor and the country's data protection authority, while several... the upcoming European Parliament elections, and the resignations of a senior Interior Ministry official... that the email list was leaked from the Interior Ministry during the tenure of the caretaker government
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Newsletter 428 - 21/06/2024
: Development, Migration, Interior, Labour and Agricultural Development. The new head of the Development Ministry is Takis Theodorikakos, who has previously served as Interior Minister. Kostas Tsiaras... is being moved from the Interior Ministry to the Labour Ministry, where she is replacing one of the few
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Greece and the euro: The flight of Icarus
Agoraas well as that of Icarus, the young man who ignored the warnings of his father, Daedalus, flew too... the populist policies of its founder Andreas Papandreou – the man credited with starting the process... the country. When thinking about the story of Icarus, people often forget that while the young man crashed
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Greece's ultimate sacrifice for stability
Agorato and horsetrading with Prime Minister Antonis Samaras's right-hand man. Those are the bits we can smile about..., the man charged with leading Greece out of the crisis, arrives at his policy decisions. He has surrounded.... This is not a problem limited to one man but has to do with an overall perception of Greek democracy
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The implications of Erdogan's referendum victory
Agora-man system equipped with vast additional powers. These will be usurped from other institutions... be extended until 2034. However, there is a loophole which could make the transition to the new one-man..., the referendum outcome will likely lead to a further erosion of expertise under one-man rule. Decision
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Greeks suspicious of Covid-19 origins but warming to vaccine, polls show
Societyis a man-made virus developed in a laboratory. Almost a quarter (23.6 percent) said that they didn’t know while less than a third (30.6 percent) said they believed that the virus was not man made. More women than men were likely to believe that the virus was man made, as well as people over the age
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Clashes add to political tension over division, police violence
PoliticsGreek Politicson Sunday, when officers were filmed beating a man who appeared to be questioning why they were fining and ushering away families who had gathered in Nea Smyrni square. The police claimed that the man had... advised them that the man who had been beaten was a member of a radical left group and had been
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Govt mulls more freedoms for vaccinated, while arrest highlights evolving far-right networks
PoliticsGreek Politicsmessaging going into autumn. In a separate development, the arrest of a man filmed directing an attack... that the man, who appeared to be directing the attack, had a record of previous arrests on leftist... vaccination. The man was identified as a member of the ultra-nationalist ProPatria group, one of several
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