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  1. Parties on edge as Golden Dawn case has potential to go either way

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    On a trip to the USA this week, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said his government was in the process of “completely eradicating” Golden Dawn. Events in Athens over the past few days suggest... almost two percentage points more than the party received during last summer’s elections and well above

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  2. SYRIZA to test coalition with censure motion but victory unlikely

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    further than that. Although the government was taken by surprise when SYRIZA submitted the censure... from a trip to the USA, where he attempted to clear up doubt about whether the party wants Greece

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  3. Cooperatives on Cyprus: Why they were treated differently to banks
    Photo by Myrto Papadopoulos [www.myrtopapadopoulos.com]

    Agora

    in the USA has lessons for Cyprus and parallels to what happened on the island. One of the issues... to it being treated differently than for-profit banks in Cyprus. The cooperative sector is collectively

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  4. Strong tourism season confirmed by Q2 accommodation turnover
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    5.24 million last year. The highest increase was posted by tourists from the UK (up 33.8 percent), USA... the highest rise so far this year, at 29 percent to August. In 2013, more than half (55.4 percent

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  5. Tsipras hopes for 'spring' with Russia but brighter days not certain
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras says he hopes for “spring” in relations between Greece and Russia, which he his due to visit on April 8, rather than the “Siberian winter” that currently exists... is unlikely to back the Turkish Stream project. d) For the same reason, the USA is not supportive of Turkish

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  6. Greek travel receipts rise by 10.2 pct in 2014, arrivals shoot up by 20.7 pct
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    tourist arrivals by more than 4 million or 20.7 percent to 24.27 million in 2014 from 20.11 million...) followed by FYROM (+38.7 percent to 2.35 million) and USA (+26.9 percent to 591,900). In absolute

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  7. Greek relations with US on edge due to law allowing terrorist's release

    PoliticsForeign Policy

    Relations between Greece and the USA became much tenser this week as a result of Greek Parliament approving on Monday a Justice Ministry bill that paves the way for November 17 terrorist Savvas Xiros... the harshest language used by an American diplomat in Athens for more than a decade. It appears

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  8. Waiting for the hurricane
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    Agora

    Over the last few months, Greece has been like a town on the East Coast of the USA during the hurricane season. Greeks have been checking the news every day to see if the storm will hit, causing... (and burned) all its political capital in negotiating over 7.2 billion euros rather than focussing

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  9. Hotel guest numbers up 8.7 percent in 2014

    Economy

    and 4.5 percent of nights), USA (5.2 percent of arrivals and 2.3 percent of nights), Netherlands (3.7... arrivals was considerably lower than the total number of non-resident arrivals from abroad for 2014, which

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  10. Coalition defends deal with lenders, opposition exerts pressure
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    the gathering as he will be on a trip to the USA to search for investors, followed by visits... been able to secure a better agreement because he would have offered to conduct more reforms than

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