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Don't celebrate a French reconnection for EU just yet
Agoracandidates one side and eurosceptic or anti-EU hopefuls on the other. As a reminder, in the dual... by centre-right New Democracy beat off the anti-austerity insurgency from SYRIZA. It ignored... In these circumstances, it was no surprise that the members of Germany’s anti-immigrant AfD, which is hoping to make
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Clash over refugees in central Athens prompts warnings of far-right resurgence
PoliticsGreek Politicswing of Mayor Kostas Bakoyiannis’s ND party, as well more extreme anti-migrant groups acting through... openly critical. In response, a spokesman for the council’s left-wing anti-racism coalition KEERFA..., the coalition accused the authorities of giving precedence to anti-migrant protesters and using violence
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Kammenos calls for lynching of mayor but ends up boxing himself into a corner
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPanos Kammenos and his anti-bailout Independent Greeks have been showing remarkable resilience... being forced out of New Democracy. It has a rudimentary anti-bailout, nationalist platform... willingness to discuss cooperating with SYRIZA to form an anti-bailout government in the future did
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Nightmare on Democracy Street
Agora-old man, Pavlos Fyssas, who was reportedly targeted because he used anti-fascist lyrics in his rap... have added to this with a fierce anti-immigration policy and a failure to clamp down on Golden Dawn’s... to the mix. Until then, anti-fascist protests will continue to be disparate events organized by different
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Scars for coalition, questions for SYRIZA after confidence vote
PoliticsGreek Politics, SYRIZA was only able to draw support for the motion from the anti-bailout Independent Greeks... revolved largely around the now entrenched pro- and anti-memorandum arguments, which voters have heard... to be relayed to the crowd. But only 5,000 people, at most, turned out for the rally. Most anti
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Greek politics in thrall to new faces and old ideas
Agorathen on, parties and politicians have been cast into two categories: Pro-memorandum and anti-memorandum. Any... abandoned by parties fleeing one way or another to man the barricades of the pro- or anti-memorandum camp... cannot be attributed to it being an anti-systemic force. It is far from that: Theodorakis has been
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As SYRIZA looks towards centre, will New Democracy turn to its right?
PoliticsGreek Politicsof Greece, where many still see the leftists as anti-European. “We are a pro-European force... allies, the anti-bailout Independent Greeks and Democratic Left (DIMAR), both performed terribly on May... that there is not much more support for SYRIZA to draw from the far left. Anti-capitalist ANTARSYA and pro
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Greece must tackle foreign bribery by Greek firms, OECD says
Societyanti-graft watchdog has said. Published on Friday by the OECD Working Group on Bribery, which is responsible for monitoring the implementation and enforcement of the organisations 1997 anti-bribery... of fighting foreign bribery and explicitly address foreign bribery in its national anti-corruption
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Approach to protests, policing poses a new quandary for government
PoliticsGreek PoliticsFollowing a wave of sit-in protests by anti-establishment groups, Alternate Citizens’ Protection... Nea newspaper and suggested that the government’s lax attitude to sit-ins and protests by anti... time ensuring that anti-establishment groups do not disrupt public life and dictate policy could
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Divided we fall?
Agora, the country started to split into the pro- and anti-memorandum camps: There were those who felt only... Antonis Samaras became the arch-proponent of the anti-memorandum line, feeding the populism that saw... and Samaras jumped from being an anti-austerity crusader to a bailout enforcer in late 2011, so the dividing
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