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  1. Opposition parties bring Tempe issue back to Parliament after mass protests
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    elected parliamentary speaker, Nikitas Kaklamanis. He replaced another New Democracy veteran, Kostas

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  2. Mitsotakis burnishes European contacts as legal wrangling continues at home

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    in her capacity as a lawyer. Parliamentary speaker Nikitas Kaklamanis, a New Democracy veteran

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  3. Troika returning to Greece but key decisions still months away
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    than fiscal. Greece is expected to produce a larger-than-expected primary surplus for 2013. Prime Minister Antonis Samaras put the figure at around 1.5 billion euros. Olli Rehn acknowledged... comments at Monday’s Eurogroup that any discussion about more loans for Greece has now been put off until

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  4. The first cut is the deepest? Greek pension reforms in context

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    of public protests against austerity. Often the public rhetoric obscures rather than conveys... of the crisis put a squeeze on all three funding streams roughly within the same time frame, throwing... in unemployment, put a big dent in employees’ and employers’ contributions into the social security system

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  5. Is a lack of spending hampering Greece's firefighting capabilities?

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    volunteers. By this count, Greece employs more professional firefighters than most developed western states. With 115 career firefighters per 100,000 inhabitants, it ranks higher than the United States with 109, and has more than twice the personnel than Italy with 48, and almost three times

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  6. Down but not out: Golden Dawn rears its head again
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    Agora

    of Golden Dawn members in handcuffs would remind people that there is a force larger than them... Thema newspaper put Golden Dawn, which controls 18 seats in the 300-strong House, in third place... weekly between November 8-12 put the party even higher at 10.5 percent and clearly ahead of once

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  7. Newsletter 43 - 18/09/2015

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    indications, though, that if one of the two parties is to edge ahead it will be SYRIZA rather than New... days of the campaign. In contrast, New Democracy is seen having rallied to more than 90 percent... will be that New Democracy, PASOK and Potami will probably find it easier to reach an agreement than

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  8. Newsletter 100 - 16/12/2016

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    the completion of the review seem more complicated than ever. The first shock to the system this week... moved up a notch again on Wednesday when the European Stability Mechanism revealed that it has put on hold the implementation of In July the number of tax debtors increased by more than 125,000 from

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  9. On lockdown: The moments that will remain
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    Agora

    on the last few weeks and remember the peculiar moments rather than the tragic incidents. Unlike some... passed. We may think about how we crossed to the opposite side of an empty street to put a safe.... Perhaps, though, it is the quiet that will remain with us more than anything else. Apart from a burst

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  10. Greece: After a deal, work on a solution
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    will be a short-term fix rather than a long-term solution. Instead, Greece must formulate a long... society. The creditors, on the other hand, need to back such a long-term plan, and put more... the euro, and want a deal in the end. Syriza is therefore likely to back Tsipras when he decides to put

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