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Sensing opportunity, Golden Dawn rears its head again
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDefence Minister Panos Kammenos, highlighting the growing confidence that the Neo-Nazi party’s MPs... on Kos and transit centres in Athens and Thessaloniki. On Wednesday, two of the party’s most prominent... to the military’s new role in helping the government tackle the refugee crisis. They accused Kammenos of making
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The refugee crisis and the beast within
AgoraAs symbols go, the imaginary pig’s head in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies requires little... of you?” The pig’s head represents everything that is dark and nasty about the schoolchildren stranded... there could be a possible unleashing of these negative forces in Greece, then a pig’s head seems as apt
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Refugee crisis edges further onto domestic political agenda
PoliticsForeign PolicyMonday’s summit between the European Union and Turkey to discuss the refugee crisis is taking... that they are against the idea of Tsipras using or threatening to use Greece’s veto. It remains to be seen... and a common strategy ahead of Monday’s meeting in Brussels. However, this balance may be out of everyone
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EU-Turkey refugee plan: One for one and none for all
Agoraof Balkan countries, decided to ignore the EU’s common position and enforce strict border restrictions..., culminating in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) operating as Europe’s nightclub bouncer... Balkan allies exposed the EU’s toothlessness in such situations and forced German Chancellor Angela
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Unease mounts as Greece prepares to implement EU-Turkey refugee deal
PoliticsForeign PolicyUnion’s agreement with Turkey regarding the return and resettlement of refugees. MPs are due to vote.... Under the provisions of the draft legislation, Greece’s Asylum Service will also be able to take.... The implementation of the EU-Turkey agreement appears to be the government’s best hope at the moment
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Tsipras and the IMF: Another miscalculation?
AgoraFollowing Saturday’s leak of the exchange between the International Monetary Fund’s European... Alexis Tsipras’s reading of the situation and his reaction to the WikiLeaks publication were puzzling. Even though I have not refrained in the past from highlighting the IMF’s responsibility in Greece’s
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Tension rises in Greece but creditors see potential for agreement soon
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGiorgos Houliarakis, along with the government’s legal advisers, met with representatives... in the talks but the fact that negotiations are continuing, despite Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s somewhat... the Greek side. Tsipras’s request for an EU summit to discuss the Greek issues should probably be seen
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EU highlights Greek border concerns but Athens concerned about Aegean
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreece’s land and sea borders, as well as air space, are back in focus after the European Commission’s decision to extend frontier controls in the Schengen area for another six months and rising concern about Turkey’s activity in the Aegean. The Commission confirmed on Wednesday, as expected
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Feeling weight of measures, SYRIZA seeks way to re-connect with voters
PoliticsGreek Politicsof some controversial moves on the coalition’s behalf. A row has broken out between the government... of SYRIZA’s attempt to instigate a class war for its own political benefit. On Friday, Kyritsis, who is also the government’s spokesman on refugee issue, clarified his comment by saying that he meant
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Coalition and New Democracy at odds over anti-government protests
PoliticsGreek Politicsbe secretly backing the rallies, which are being organised under the slogan “Resign.” The minister’s questioning of the demonstrations, which are due to take place in Greece’s two largest cities on June 15.... However, the opposition party seems to feel that it can gain from highlighting the coalition’s double
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