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Polls indicated support for two main parties growing as start of elections marathon looms
PoliticsGreek Politicsis dissolved so that elections can be held on April 9, prompting an ever-growing focus on what... will be a non-partisan figure, can oversee the elections. All parties intending to take part in the elections will have to declare they will be running by March 18 so the Supreme Court can announce
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Jockeying over presidential nomination points to parties' longer-term political goals
PoliticsGreek Politicswith PASOK, but also to put the socialists in a position where he can criticise them for backing a possible... that it can mount a serious challenge to New Democracy in the upcoming elections. On the flipside, ND is doing everything it can to create the impression that PASOK’s bid for power is not credible
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Newsletter 318 - 26/11/2021
” and “without endangering the fiscal balance”. The latest package comes on top of almost 680 million euros... dissatisfaction emerging from recent polls. The latest, carried out by Alco for Open TV, found that fewer... for SYRIZA in the latest poll stood at 21.7 pct (from 21.5 pct a week earlier), meaning the gap between
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In the absence of light, darkness grows
Agoracommittee has just held a meeting to assess the poll results. One can only look upon the panel’s reported... democrats in Greece today. Those who vote for Golden Dawn and its less volatile sidekick, LAOS, can no longer be regarded as just frustrated citizens letting off steam. Nor can our understanding of what
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SYRIZA's date with history
Agoraof the lessons that history can teach. This makes it all the more baffling that SYRIZA gives... for a change in policy, the process by which this can be achieved is far less clear. Commentators and economists can satisfy themselves with sketching out the broad framework as they drive public
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Greeks lose faith in coalition but don't trust SYRIZA, polls indicate
PoliticsGreek Politicsin the coalition but have yet to feel they can trust SYRIZA. According to the survey, 62.5 percent... percent of respondents said they do not believe SYRIZA can govern effectively. SYRIZA’s weakness remains its inability to convince voters that it can run the country competently. A Rass poll
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Greece: After a deal, work on a solution
Agora, not just a deal. The politics of a deal The key political question is: can Tsipras, Merkel... of a Schäuble-Merkel split are overblown. Schäuble can play the hawkish finance minister, which boosts his..., that fiscal consolidation in an economic crisis reduces debt levels can only be explained by their huge
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Newsletter 48 - 23/10/2015
announcements on the terms and amount of capital increases can be expected in the first week of November... participation can be expected in the second half of November. Few lessons learnt in school VAT mess SYRIZA now... their children to private schools are “well off” and can afford the extra cost. Fees at private schools
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The enemy within
Agorathe country as a whole? How can someone in power lump people together in such generalised categories? Isn’t... to believe that it can regain its working class stripes by highlighting the cleavages in Greek society... credibility can politicians who oversaw this sharing of the pain have when they accuse others of sowing
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Space and time the missing elements in Greek bailout talks
Agoraof kicking the can down the road was available. The problem now is that everyone is running out... an impasse that can only be overcome by a significant compromise on all sides. It has to come soon... Jeroen Dijsselbloem. The key lies in whether the lenders can give Tsipras a deal that he believes
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