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PM to announce new measures as second Covid wave gathers pace
PoliticsGreek Politicsin northern Greece, and particularly the country’s second largest city Thessaloniki, are at the epicentre of the latest outbreaks. The viral load in the city estimated on the basis of sewage analysis... health authorities to expect a continued surge of confirmed cases in the city, where the arrival
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Tear gas instead of vaccines
Agoraand candidates for vaccination. At the time this text was created, Ljubljana looked like a city from a Hollywood disaster movie. The city centre is virtually blocked, full of barricades and cordons..., students, senior citizens, children in the parks near the city centre got the same experience
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Tsipras conducts varied reshuffle in further bid to revitalise coalition
PoliticsGreek Politicsbe leaving the Interior Ministry to become SYRIZA’s secretary, several other frontline officials... role is Alexis Haritsis. The 41-year-old was appointed interior minister, replacing the outgoing... is one of the few cabinet members to emerge with his reputation relatively intact. The Interior
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Newsletter 417 - 22/03/2024
by the Interior Ministry, a Greek prosecutor and the country's data protection authority, while several... the upcoming European Parliament elections, and the resignations of a senior Interior Ministry official... that the email list was leaked from the Interior Ministry during the tenure of the caretaker government
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PM makes limited, cautious changes to cabinet after election disappointment
PoliticsGreek Politicsat ministerial level in five departments: Development, Migration, Interior, Labour and Agricultural... as Interior Minister. Kostas Tsiaras, once a justice minister under Mitsotakis, becomes the new agriculture minister. Niki Kerameus is being moved from the Interior Ministry to the Labour Ministry
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Newsletter 428 - 21/06/2024
: Development, Migration, Interior, Labour and Agricultural Development. The new head of the Development Ministry is Takis Theodorikakos, who has previously served as Interior Minister. Kostas Tsiaras... is being moved from the Interior Ministry to the Labour Ministry, where she is replacing one of the few
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Drop ‘til you shop
Agorapeople buying clothes or other goods, it can be about making the city centre or neighbourhoods... Nights initiative that the City of Athens ran in conjunction with shops in the city centre last year... effort to make this less about consumer spending and more about reviving city centres and shopping
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Varosha move puzzles amid low expectations on Cyprus
PoliticsForeign Policyup Maronite villages and the “ghost city” of Famagusta (Varosha). Government sources in both Greece... informed of any plans by the Turkish Cypriot side to hand over the fenced-off city of Varosha to UN... to discuss the opening of the ghost city as part of confidence-building measures but only under UN
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China’s Footprint in Southeast Europe: Constructing the "Balkan Silk Road"
Agoracity Skopje, the construction sites of the A2/A3 highway from Kičevo to Ohrid (57 km... reduce travel time from the capital Skopje to Štip, which is the largest city in the Eastern region.... In 2010, China’s Zhengzhou Yutong Group was chosen to supply the capital city Skopje with 202 retro
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Greeks consider antisemitism a minor issue despite recent attacks
Societymemorial in Thessaloniki had been vandalised once more, ahead of planned commemorations in the city... was home to a Jewish community of around 60,000 which had been established in the city for over 450 years. Less than 2,000 of the city’s Jewish population survived the Nazi invasion and subsequent
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