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Most popular blog posts in The Agora during 2013
AgoraHere are our three most popular posts in The Agora section during 2013. For those who have already read them, a big thank you from the Macropolis team. For those reading them for the first time, we hope it gives you an idea of what we do. We aim to provide you with more incisive analysis in 2014
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Finance Ministry outlines plans for making savings, increasing revenues
EconomyProgrammepercent of GDP in 2015 is feasible without additional measures. He also stressed that “when you have a high primary surplus and you don’t change the revenue sources, then you have to reduce excess
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Parties mark out battle lines for next elections
PoliticsGreek Politicssaid. “Do we want a public sector that will have enough doctors and teachers?” “You are weak because you don’t know what you believe,” he added. Opinion poll While several recent opinion polls have
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Tsipras, Mitsotakis cast gloves aside as pre-election fight gets personal
PoliticsGreek Politicsby a helicopter owned by the media boss. “Last August you were not mourning for Mati,” said Tsipras. “You were... committing crimes against this country. You are sending people to vote for the far-right.” Gennimata
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Mitsotakis vows to push on with tax cuts despite fiscal concerns
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat this would allow Greece to pay off its debt quicker. “You have different revenues if you grow with 2 percent than if you grow with 4 percent,” he said, adding that this would be driven
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Erdogan's inflammatory comments a harbinger for new period of Greek-Turkish tension
PoliticsForeign Policy, Turkey’s president made one of his most abrasive comments yet. “You occupying the islands doesn’t... say, we may come down suddenly one night.” “Look at history, if you go further, the price... that there must be the possibility for a state to have a safety valve, call it what you like, either a veto
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Controversial migration bill divides government factions
PoliticsGreek Politicsand irregular, there is only legal and illegal entry”, adding that, “if you have entered the country illegally, you only have one option, to return; you are not welcome”. The new legislation makes
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Gaza continues to expose political fault lines as PM hopes peace deal brings less scrutiny
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAirport. Among them were 27 Greeks. “No one kidnapped you,” Georigiadis told Perka. !You entered... with Israel, framing her actions as reckless and performative. “You’re undermining national interests
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SYRIZA backlash following Kammenos trip to islands
PoliticsGreek Politicsin a visit to the small Dodecanese island of Kastelorizo and other tiny islets as part of a group... took part in the visit. However, the fact that two SYRIZA MPs and the party’s Alternate Defence...-backed newspaper Avgi on Wednesday. “The government’s visit together with the neo-Nazis of Golden Dawn
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Greek and Turkish PMs tone things down, look to new Cyprus talks
PoliticsForeign PolicyPrime Minister Binali Yildirim’s visit to Greece on Monday, when he held substantial talks... to this issue several times during his visit to Athens, reminding Brussels about one of the terms.... The visit of United Nations special advisor Espen Barth Eide's visit on Tuesday should reveal at least how
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