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Tsipras, Mitsotakis step up rhetoric ahead of EU vote as polls show little change
PoliticsGreek Politicstheme of preventing the advance of the far-right in Europe, but also the more local theme of making... and Europe’s far-right via the EPP’s lead candidate for the European Commission presidency, Manfred Weber, who is due to officially launch his campaign in Athens on Tuesday. “The far-right does not dress up
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The benefits of being Greek
Agoraare thinking of Golden Dawn or the likes or Kyriakos Velopoulos, who leads Greek Solution. How far... foreign. Therein lies the second problem. Even if one assumes (which is far from certain) that non-EU... play to a far-right gallery to ensure his parliamentary majority by weakening minor far-right
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Learning the lessons of Greece's toxic decade
Agoraor taking a risk with the SYRIZA radicals. Greeks decided that trusting Tsipras was a step too far... in the antimnimonio formula could serve him well. Although he never went as far as Samaras and Tsipras in Zappeio or Thessaloniki, he stood against the programme and went as far as suggesting that Tsipras had
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PM faces complex challenge as Turkey threatens free passage for refugees
PoliticsGreek Politicsmember of the government who has adopted more right-wing positions on the issue, going as far to suggest... nation – a variation of the “great replacement” theory popular in far-right circles in the west. Mitsotakis has so far attempted to close off this space by overhauling Greece’s asylum system with the aim
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Govt holds off on new Covid-19 measures as public reacts to GD ruling
PoliticsGreek Politicssuggests concerns about the far-right rearing its head again in Greece, perhaps in another form... of the far-right party, its leadership and members, those questioned identified the justice system... shut down, most Greeks do not believe that the far-right threat in Greece is over: 39 pct say
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It will happen when it happens - The vaccination entanglement in North Macedonia
Agorafaced by other countries, but the stapes taken by the institutions so far convinced us that we have... the decision of the citizens to be vaccinated in Serbia with this vaccine. So far no information... the majority of citizens are vaccinated. The vaccination process so far may be confusing and non
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Vexed SYRIZA abstains from vote on election bans
PoliticsGreek Politicstaking part in the country’s elections. The amendment was brought to the House with the far-right... Kasidiaris’s party as an attempt to stem the flow of potential New Democracy voters to the far-right... from prison via YouTube. The opposition leader also accused Mitsotakis of trying to play to the far
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Mitsotakis's predecessors launch caustic attacks against PM's leadership, government policies
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat has been heard so far from within the ruling party. Antonis Samaras and Kostas Karamanlis spoke... and outspoken so far. Their comments were fuelled by the recent European Parliament elections, where New... to expectations. Samaras, who served as PM between 2012 and 2015, was by far the more caustic of the two
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Post-election blamestorming or Why Harris lost and the Democrats should nominate Oprah
Agorashaped by Fox News and the proliferating far right-wing internet media echo chamber and not MSNBC... have one-upped Trump on every score. So far what I’ve described can be termed the proximate causes..., in a mere three months. Rather than being a bridge to the future, it was a bridge too far. The lazy
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Government hopes new train footage helps stem support for parties on political extremes
PoliticsGreek Politicsparties on the far right and far left. Recent opinion polls appear to have given New Democracy..., the far left populist party led by Zoe Konstantopoulou, and the nativist far right Voice of Reason
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