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University bill passes as parties' ideological dividing lines are laid bare
PoliticsGreek Politicsor law and order, which critics claim is closer to the hard right than the political centre that Prime... that it intended to restore law and order after years of unrest during the economic crisis. Furthermore... that the main problem afflicting tertiary education is a lack of funding and facilities rather than
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Newsletter 61 - 05/02/2016
measures now that will last in order to make it sustainable. The general strike on Thursday saw one... that revealed “further measures will be needed in 2016 and 2017 in order to reach the programme’s... will be less wavering in his search for a deal with creditors than last year and may be willing to compromise
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Newsletter 16 - 20/02/2015
euros at the end of January. In particular, 46.6 billion – or more than 60 percent of tax arrears... owe less than 5,000 euros, stand at just 3 percent (2.3 billion) of the outstanding amount of 76... debt related to 326,000 individuals and 75,000 corporates owing more than 5,000 each makes up 97
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When will Greek banks operate as credit institutions again?
Agorais happening at an uninterrupted pace for more than two years now. Put otherwise, since the beginning of 2011... the past three years. According to the Central Bank of Greece unit labor costs have declined by more than...-oriented (including to Germany) and a good order book, sound credit history despite all the challenges
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Newsletter 71 - 22/04/2016
for 2015 is above the recent government estimate of 0.2 percent and much better than the programme... the institutions that there is no urgent need for the legislation of contingency measures worth more than 3... and transparent politician than his predecessors and peers, so showing that there is some substance to his
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China’s Footprint in Southeast Europe: Constructing the "Balkan Silk Road"
Agoramodernization. These projects form part of regional, rather than country-specific initiatives that Chinese... railway initiative. For both cities, such a project has been on the agenda for more than a decade... rhetoric than substance. China is only at the beginning of a much larger engagement in the region
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Survey reveals working lives, job-finding trends of young Greeks
Societyor to commute for longer than 1 hour in order to start working.... of men working while studying was higher than that for women, and Greek citizens were notably more likely to work during their studies than non-Greeks. Age was also a factor: 29.1 percent of those
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New asylum law comes up against old failings
Agoradepartures, rather than forced returns, which are seen as a last resort. In 2018, the Netherlands... for Migration (IOM). Also, fewer than 2,000 people have been returned under the terms of the EU-Turkey... recently argued that Greece is facing a migration, rather than a refugee crisis, which has created
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Promises and challenges of Greece's "green new deal"
EconomyFeatures, the targets call for more than a tripling of wind power and photovoltaic generation capacity from 2017... than the original plan, and a 50 percent increase over 2017 levels), as well as a slight increase... own government and the country as an investment destination, in order to attract the all-important
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Worrying Covid data forces ND to take tough policy decisions
PoliticsGreek Politicsto a year ago but the lower than expected uptake in vaccinations, the absence of other precautions...-time high for the daily number of infected people since the pandemic started. More than 400 patients are currently intubated. There were also more than 1,100 Covid-related deaths in October. This surge
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