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Helmut Schmidt, Greece and a valuable legacy for Europe
Agoraeverything else was subordinated.” Schmidt’s ability to see the bigger picture and to push narrow... Economic Community in 1981. The late German politician’s part in this process is usually overshadowed... in today’s European Union, these phrases have a familiar ring, whether it is British Prime Minister
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EU-Turkey refugee agreement: A life saver or a dud?
AgoraAn average of around 2,200 refugees and migrants have arrived on the shores of Greece’s eastern.... Being very familiar with Turkey’s changeable moods, Greece will not be taking it for granted that Sunday’s agreement with Ankara will be implemented. However, the Greek government appears to have been
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Mood sours as focus switches to next set of prior actions
PoliticsGreek Politicson the situation in Greece, including the bank recapitalisation, at Monday’s Eurogroup, while the representatives of the country’s lenders are due back in Athens on Tuesday. They are only expected... prior actions, before returning at some point in January for the start of the third programme’s first
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Greece stands on fault line between vicious and virtuous cycles for 2016
AgoraDuring 2015, Greece’s ability to meet its debt obligations became one of the most drama-ridden... government’s instant choice to follow confrontational tactics with Greece’s lenders and its loudly stated... previous ones meant that any troika financing was put immediately on hold. This left Alexis Tsipras’s
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Sobering reality overshadows SYRIZA's one-year anniversary
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Alexis Tsipras begins his efforts to dampen the opposition to the government’s... on Sunday that was meant to rally his party on the occasion of SYRIZA’s one-year anniversary, Tsipras said... contributions, farmers have staged numerous protests on Greece’s national roads, occasionally shutting
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Greece left isolated on migrant crisis, with bailout talks finely poised
PoliticsGreek Politicsto conclude the first review of the current bailout. Greece’s Migration Policy Minister Yiannis... them to contribute to the effort to step up security on Greece’s border with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM). Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban called last week for Greece’s
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Search for solutions, not scapegoats in EU's refugee crisis
AgoraFor some years now, and especially over the last 12 months, Greece has acted as Europe’s lifeguard... Greece’s European partners also want it to serve as a prison warden. Even before 2015, Greece, along... Europe. In previous years, the EU’s concern was that Greece was not treating arrivals properly
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In grip of protests, coalition searches for ways to lift mood
PoliticsGreek PoliticsWith farmers deciding to step up their protests against the government’s pension and tax reforms... and social security contributions. Given that the first weeks of talks with Greece’s lenders on the first... the political narrative are in proposing changes to the electoral law, reintroducing SYRIZA’s so-called
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Diplomatic tension over refugee crisis grows as Greece protests to Austria
PoliticsForeign PolicyGreece revealed on Tuesday that it has delivered a demarche to Vienna to complain about Vienna’s... corridor.” Athens claims that Austria is violating the verbal commitments given at last week’s European... that if nothing works by March, Greece’s borders with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM
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EU meets on refugee crisis, bailout review but Greece's immediate fate seems sealed
PoliticsForeign PolicyKyriakos Mitsotakis, PASOK chief Fofi Gennimata and Potami’s Stavros Theodorakis signed a common statement regarding Greece’s positon on the refugee crisis. The two key aspects of the declaration are that Tsipras was not given a mandate to veto any decision taken at Monday’s EU-Turkey summit
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