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More fires at Moria add to pressure for effective response to asylum crisis
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreece as a bridge to the EU rather than a hurdle, and put an end to an approach that is increasingly... of emergency on the island following the first conflagration, which left more than 3,000 camp residents... greater weight than its fair share”. The President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen
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New bid to curb Covid-19 raises demand for more economic support
PoliticsGreek Politicsafter the number of daily cases more than doubled this week, comfortably surpassing the 1,000-mark. Some experts predict that the daily total could reach more than 3,000 next week. The pressure... of citizens along the Thessaloniki promenade resulted in more than 7 percent testing positive for the virus
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Greece to enter second lockdown as govt faces criticism over 'total failure'
PoliticsGreek Politicsin a televised address on Thursday. Mitsotakis said he “would rather take these measures sooner than later... on pandemic measures in less than a week. On Saturday, a simplified two-tier system of regional... haphazard and driven more by political expediency than scientific guidance. The insistence
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Newsletter 274 -20/11/2020
the ban on gatherings, had put a reported 6,000 police on the streets to deter protesters... to contain and turn back protestors, detaining more than 100 in the process, was used as proof... of Public Revenues (IAPR) has shown. New tax debt totalled 3.90 billion, lower than the figure
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PM hopes for return to normality by summer, but vaccine progress remains slow
PoliticsGreek Politicsin the European vaccination programme in the second quarter of the year, his comments put him... a slow start, the daily inoculation rate has more than doubled and is approaching 20,000 doses a day...”. Vaccinations would have to be administered five times faster than the present rate to hit the target
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Who is left dreaming the European dream in Serbia?
Agorafurther from the EU than it was five years ago. And yet, membership and negotiations did not come up...) effects, can we expect greater pressure put on decision makers to secure EU membership or citizens... for the Balkans, which shows that EU membership in Serbia is supported by slightly more than 60
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Under scrutiny, government defends vaccine strategy
PoliticsGreek Politicspupils and teachers will only have to conduct one self-test per week before going to school, rather than... after Tourism Minister Haris Theoharis was put under pressure on the BBC’s Hardtalk programme... that just over 1% of the population is being vaccinated each day. Over the last couple of weeks, more than
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Newsletter 297 - 21/05/2021
the “wall of immunity” it would like even though it is now vaccinating more than 100,000 people a day. He... and developments on the EU’s “digital green certificate” mature. Meanwhile, SYRIZA has put forward its... which they were temporarily absent, as still employed if the duration of their absence was less than
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The final stretch: Can fearmongering swing the German electorate?
Agora. We have been there before. Such a strategy was successfully applied by the CDU more than a decade... as the greater danger than existing climate change challenges and the economic consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic. Olaf Scholz could easily put such a political ghost to rest by publicly rejecting
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Tsipras issues rare MP ouster, focusses on pinning ND down over ICU data
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe authorities on the pandemic, Professor Sotiris Tsiodras, had never been put before Prime... as the Covid mortality rate in hospitals outside Athens was found to be much higher than in the capital..., rather than coffins” – a reference to the Mati fire, which resulted in more than 100 deaths when
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