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How Greece sleepwalked off a cliff in 2009, in black and white
AgoraNine years since facing bankruptcy and subsequently having experienced the most severe economic crisis in its modern history, which took away a quarter of the economy and employment, a country should... primary expenditure had to be taken after the elections. Public debt Karamanlis’s government managed
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Mitsotakis responds to Tsipras challenge with proposals for broad changes to constitution
PoliticsGreek Politicsforward by Tsipras. Mitsotakis argued that Greece needs a more modern constitution that will help... and icons being taken down in schools and courts and an end to public celebrations of Christmas
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SYRIZA sees opportunity in tepid response to govt initiatives, PM's cosseting of right wing
PoliticsGreek Politicsparty is beholden to its right-wing faction and far from the modern, liberal grouping... Yiannis Economou suggested on Wednesday that action would be taken if Bogdanos commits a similar
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Zaev's departure leaves ties with North Macedonia in balance
PoliticsForeign Policypreach more in favour of the Muslim Brotherhood and much less for a modern European educational... to have to content with a successor to Zaev who will have taken note of all this and who
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Political impact of spying revelations unclear, as drip-feed of information continues
PoliticsGreek PoliticsSYRIZA referred to the incident as a modern-day Greek tragedy and called on the government to respect... a comprehensive assessment and see what initiatives need to be taken”. The opposition parties, however
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Newsletter 373 - 10/03/2023
to renege on 400 million euros of investments in modern rolling stock. Earlier in the week... some reliefThe Greek government must have taken some comfort this week from the latest GDP data
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Newsletter 416 - 15/03/2024
committee, concluded that whatever the failures to install modern safety systems on the Greek... was taken by Transport Minister Kostas Karamanlis, who resigned on the day of the crash. The ruling
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PM sets out case for third term, surveys global landscape and talks up constitutional reform
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the modern Greek state. Mitsotakis argued that Greece must “close all pending issues... are “taken aback” by the shift. On whether he could govern with a coalition partner, he repeated
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New migration law passes amid questions over Chios tragedy
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor legal migration. The government argues the package creates a “modern and effective” model... that testimony must be taken solely by the competent authorities. He argued that any attempt to shape
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Farm subsidy scandal prompts disquiet in ruling party, encourages opposition
PoliticsGreek PoliticsRevenue (IAPR), and pointed to digitalisation as the key reform: compensation decisions now taken without human intervention, crop checks done by satellites, livestock counted with modern tools rather than
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