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Holding out for a (reformist) hero
Agorato form a government in January 2015 with the staunchly anti-bailout (in rhetoric at least) Independent... potential miracle worker, or “Harvard-educated free-market reformer”, as the Wall Street Journal... bureaucracy and weak political will have to be overcome. The Wall Street Journal writes
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Greece's ultimate sacrifice for stability
Agora, the self-styled anti-systemic party, was completely at ease with the idea of cosying up... Department described as supporting “virulent nationalism, anti-Semitism, racism and xenophobia.” One... to second generation immigrants was repealed in 2012 but has not been replaced. The anti-racism bill
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Newsletter 268 -09/10/2020
of anti-fascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas as well as violent attacks on migrants. Sixteen people were... and by anti-racism campaigners who had called them “an unexpected gift for the leadership of GD... the collective heading “Wall of Democracy”, denouncing Golden Dawn and calling for a historical verdict
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Slow pace of returns and relocations leaves refugee crisis finely balanced
PoliticsForeign Policycrisis. Also, on Wednesday, Greek police fired tear gas and stun grenades at the Idomeni camp near... of Turkish visas because of a dispute over Ankara’s anti-terrorism law. The Greek government
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Newsletter 67 - 18/03/2016
by hundreds of refugees from the Idomeni camp in northern Greece triggered a chain reaction that led... of FYROM authorities to allow refugees to pass at Idomeni. It also raised questions about whether the Greek government is making enough of an effort to guard the refugee camps as the people at Idomeni
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Newsletter 57 - 08/01/2016
with the staunchly anti-bailout (in rhetoric at least) Independent Greeks. In the ensuing months, Tsipras became... miracle worker, or “Harvard-educated free-market reformer”, as the Wall Street Journal describes him.... The Wall Street Journal writes that Mitsotakis won “respect from Greece’s creditors for his efforts
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Greece and lenders with conceptual, as well as practical, gaps to bridge
PoliticsGreek Politicsand in Varoufakis labelling the troika “shabbily constructed” and “anti-European,” which made Dijsselbloem... of the example of his predecessor Antonis Samaras, who abandoned his anti-austerity rhetoric almost.... This means that there is room for compromise in the days ahead – as a Wall Street Journal article published
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Approaching Golden Dawn verdict shines spotlight on Greek politics, justice
![Photo by Myrto Papadopoulos [www.myrtopapadopoulos.com]](resources/toolip/img-thumb/2013/11/02/goldendawntorches_myrto_1000_011-medium.jpg "Photo by Myrto Papadopoulos [www.myrtopapadopoulos.com]")
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe collective heading “Wall of Democracy”, denouncing Golden Dawn and calling for a historical verdict against... of the vote, after campaigning on an anti-austerity, anti-establishment platform against the country’s
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Under-fire PM pledges civil defence improvements following summer of destruction
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe auspices of the Infrastructure and Environment Ministry to manage future anti-flooding work... for the last three terms, had carried out anti-flooding work in the area. The PM added, though... to complete the construction of the wall on Greece’s land border with Turkey, in Evros
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PM doubles down on constitutional reform as pre‑election strategy hardens
PoliticsGreek Politicsrequired for meaningful constitutional change, the prime minister is encountering a wall of hostility... lotus‑eaters” and calling him “the most anti‑institutional prime minister of the post‑1974 era”. PASOK...), meanwhile, frames the revision as an attempt to “constitutionally entrench deeply reactionary, anti
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