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  1. Samaras proposes free wi-fi as crisis antidote for young Greeks
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has come up with a surprising proposal to give hope to young Greeks, including those considering leaving the country because of record unemployment: Free wi-fi throughout Greece. Samaras made the unusual suggestion during a rare primetime TV interview on Monday night

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  2. In bid to polish SYRIZA's image, Tsipras visits Mount Athos monks
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    is an atheist, meeting monks was indeed unusual. It was the first such visit by a leftist leader since

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  3. Piraeus Bank seals milestone deal with KKR over 1.2 bln of non-core assets
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    EconomyBanking

    In an unusual move by the standards of the Greek banking sector, Piraeus Bank has announced an agreement with leading global investment firm KKR for the transfer and securitisation of 1.2 billion of non-core assets to a new structure managed and controlled by KKR Credit and serviced by Piraeus

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  4. Voting for brinkmanship while the real economy needs solutions
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    Agora

    Athens’ addiction to partisanship and political drama was yet again on full display during the last days of 2014. The election of the country’s president by parliament through an open roll call may appear unusual for observers from outside Greece. But the outdated electoral procedure through

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  5. Searching for electoral manifestos and overcoming voting obstacles in Greece
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    Agora

    electoral manifestos. What appears rather unusual for outside observers, given

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  6. Reopening public broadcaster poses multiple challenges for Tsipras

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    the unusual step of presiding over the committee herself. As we have highlighted before

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  7. Newsletter 48 - 23/10/2015

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    an unusual legal procedure raised fresh suspicions. Tsipras, though, backed him throughout the whole

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  8. Tsipras and SYRIZA: More old than new
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    Agora

    he had done so, but the fact that he followed an unusual legal procedure raised fresh suspicions

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  9. Mood sours as focus switches to next set of prior actions

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    , since it is highly unusual for a national government to react to a report in the foreign media. The Die

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  10. Challenges mount for Tsipras as pension reform leads into make or break period
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    groups organising protests. Last week, there was the unusual sight of lawyers and other

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