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Train tragedy prompts urgent questions about railway safety
PoliticsGreek Politics36 deaths and dozens of injuries has laid bare the deficiencies in the country’s rail network... are not an unusual occurrence in Greece, the extent and devastating nature of this latest accident shook... posed in the media. Some of the attention has fallen on the station master at Larissa, the last stop
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ND and PASOK turn fire on Tsipras’s new party as political tension escalates
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe peak of the country’s economic crisis. The launch of Alexis Tsipras’s new party this week has... political project, in the guise of the Greek Left Alliance (ELAS) has now triggered a reaction from both New... from the Tempe tragedy. The most striking development since the ELAS launch event on Tuesday has been
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EU and Gazprom: A legal compromise that will shape Europe's natural gas landscape?
Legalthe company with the right to claim a share of the re-sale profit. Furthermore, Gazprom has fully... beneficiary of the achieved compromise since Gazprom, by means of its above-mentioned commitments, has... in the gas market, the fact that the Russian company has accepted to waive damage claims against its
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ESI up to 101.8 in November, consumer confidence rises for sixth straight month, jumping by 2.5 pts
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece’s economic sentiment (ESI) rose by 0.8 points to 101.8 in November from 101 in October, European Commission (EC) figures revealed on Thursday. Sentiment has stayed above the 100-point mark... a score of 96.8 was noted for November. Compared to November 2017, the ESI has risen by 3.2 points
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Newsletter 1 31/10/2014
, Finansbank, by the end of 2015. NBG has recently clarified that future transactions also involve the sale..., especially if they are from the same party, are not necessarily a rare occurrence – even within the unusual... in Parliament to elect a new president of the republic and avoid early elections, he has little room
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Newsletter 156 -23/03/2018
office to insist, as he has done before, that SYRIZA and Independent Greeks (ANEL) will remain... who write scenarios.” Despite the reservations in both camps about their unusual cooperation... to lead to a sudden breakdown in their relationship for the simple reason that neither has any other
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Tsipras reaches settlement with church, aiming to subdue critics
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat the government has reached an agreement with the Church of Greece to settle a series of differences between the church and state, some of which date back decades. The unusual sight of Tsipras and Archbishop... legal claims it has with regard to disputes over property the two sides agree to form a fund to make
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Awaiting the magic wand that will end the pandemic
Agorapopulation. This is so, because what was planned to happen at the beginning of June has not happened yet. Currently, 46.30 percent of the population in Croatia has been vaccinated with at least one... mandatory immunizations. In some parts of the country, this has become so prevalent that epidemics
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ND wrong-foots SYRIZA with call to lift expat vote restrictions
PoliticsGreek Politicsvoters has so far gathered 300 registrations, out of what the Interior Ministry estimates...The expat vote has become the latest pretext for a flare-up between the New Democracy government.... The existing law, which has not yet been put to the test in elections, requires Greeks who live abroad
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Data protection ruling adds to pressure on New Democracy from ranks
PoliticsGreek Politicsto energy prices. The so-called “emailgate” affair has come back to haunt the party, after the data.... The government has been accused of being too timid to allow development on uninhabited islands for fear... markets and electricity prices. A group of around 30 deputies, meanwhile, has been signalling
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