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Quo vadis Germany? Sunday's elections leave many questions in need of answers
Agoraparliament in Berlin. The Bundestag now has 734 MPs against 709 MPs in 2017. This number sets a new.... The 40-year-old Annalena Baerbock has been a member of the Bundestag since 2013. Apart from working... has never left the Green Party ecosystem for any other professional experience. Among voters she
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A busy year of diplomacy for Athens, but Greek-Turkish ties stagnate
PoliticsForeign Policya solution seem unreachable. Lately, it has been challenging Greece’s sovereignty over its eastern... attempt to challenge the country’s sovereignty. Greece has also extended the circle of possible allies in the Middle East, specifically the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. It has also further
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Where is Odysseus? Part 1 - Demographics
Agora, because policy needs to be sustainable and calibrated for the new generation, which has a life... dependent on others. He is self-starting and has a steady sense of purpose. Odysseus’ own mythical journey... with three years’ worth of additional data. A big external shock has arrived, the Covid-19 Pandemic
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Where is Odysseus? Part 4 - Unemployment and Employment
Agorato lower, but still appreciable, unemployment rates. The recovery has not yet played out... that the natural UR could settle around 7½ percent of the labor force. Employment growth has since been robust... it collapsed in the crisis of 2010. Informed by the painful experience of the 2010 crisis, Greece has
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Government turns attention to migration, hoping to avoid another front before EP vote
PoliticsGreek Politicsto be the peak of the centre-right government’s popularity. However, as time has worn on, there has been growing dissatisfaction with the administration’s handling of the migration issue, which has created some..., migration has been pushed down the agenda by several other issues. The number of migrants crossing
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Newsletter 423 - 17/05/2024
the state of Greek-Turkish relations and commit to maintaining the relative calm that has pervaded..., SYRIZA has thrown down the gauntlet to New Democracy by tabling in Parliament the three Memoranda... have been claiming that the vote on the memoranda has been held back as a potential negotiating card
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Amid talk of post-election alliances, parties propose changes to bailout measures
PoliticsGreek Politicschance” to solve Greece’s problems. The SYRIZA camp has shown no signs of softening its position... is that PASOK, which seems likely to be part of the next government no matter who wins, has set out five key... that they would like to replace some of the measures agreed in the summer with alternatives so it is clear
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Govt holds off on new Covid-19 measures as public reacts to GD ruling
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe current midnight closing time. New Democracy has been under pressure recently from the food service.... They have an average age of 68. The total number of deaths related to Covid-19 has risen to 430... measures while not ensuring that the previous ones were being abided by. In fact, Petsas suggested
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Building on flurry of policy pledges, Mitsotakis vows to back research and innovation
PoliticsGreek Politicsindicated that there has not been overwhelming support for the measures, suggesting a potential...Looking to build on whatever momentum he has generated as a result of his recent policy announcements at the Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF), Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has pledged
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It's not the distance; it's the load you carry
AgoraIt is natural to attempt to instill some hope when one addresses a nation that has been battered by six years of the deepest recession in world history and has endured four years of unprecedented austerity. Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras often says that Greece has covered 80 percent
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