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Greece and the euro: The flight of Icarus
Agora($310 billion) from its bailout is going towards repaying existing debt means the amount Greece owes... of nurturing the productive sectors of its economy and tapping into the impressive human resources it has
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Is Greece facing a new migration crisis?
Societyto mainland Greece, of grandstanding over border protection and of violating international law and human... to deteriorate and leaving the borders open to human traffickers. The Ministry of Citizens’ Protection... of proper facilities, despite a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights against the practice
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To Potami aims for rapid rise to third spot in Greek elections
PoliticsGreek Politicsliberal parties, Drasi, threw its weight behind To Potami this week. Drasi has tried for a number... to a broad audience. Drasi gained 1.8 percent in the May 2012 elections and teamed up with another liberal... media coverage than other smaller parties. Drasi always found it difficult to convince voters
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New political storm heads towards PM following report on Tempe recordings
PoliticsGreek Politicsof human error more plausible. Sunday’s edition of To Vima contained a report which claimed... in the Greek media was edited. The government added in its official response that the “human error” element... that there is a concerted effort to destabilise the government by taking advantage of the human suffering caused
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Protests give Mitsotakis chance to round on under-fire coalition
PoliticsGreek Politics, which is going under the banner of “Resign,” more people will start to question whether... be a rally calling for a government that was elected democratically last year to resign. Either way... derogatory comments against the demonstrations came from Interior Minister Panayiotis Kouroublis
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Parties take another look at granting vote to Greek expats
SocietyCommission on Human Rights, an independent body which advises the Greek state in accordance with UN human.... The National Commission on Human Rights adopts a higher estimate of 699,118 emigrants between 2008 and 2015... struck. Interior Minister Pavlos Skourletis, who had initially sought to defer the prospect
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Train tragedy prompts urgent questions about railway safety
PoliticsGreek Politicsto a number of bureaucratic obstacles. “There is no protection system against human error, such as ETCS... the human error involved. The Larissa station manager was arrested on Wednesday. The government... whether the government would be forced to resign, but in reality New Democracy took a minor hit to its
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Government prepares to hit back at opposition's censure motion over train crash
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat the crash was caused by human error, which has been the government’s main line of argument..., to resign and call elections which should be monitored by international observers. The opposition...’s majority on the committee ensured that the probe focussed on the human error element in the crash
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Opposition parties bring Tempe issue back to Parliament after mass protests
PoliticsGreek Politicsitself, which the government insisted right from the start was the result of human error, but also... been doctored to support the explanation of human error causing the crash. Apart from... ERT employees called for the broadcaster’s management to resign. This call was repeated by PASOK
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Clashes add to political tension over division, police violence
PoliticsGreek Politics, with one policeman shouting “Let’s go and kill them.” There were also reports of policemen attacking... as police clashed with some protestors. One policeman was dragged off his motorcycle and beaten. Along...” and focussing on the serious injuries suffered by the policeman. We warned against “blind rage” and said
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