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Athens "Great Walk" plan scaled back amid criticism
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAn ambitious plan to pedestrianise large sections of Athens city centre has been scaled back... strong cross-party support in the city council, but its rushed implementation during the easing... as an experiment to test if reducing car traffic in the city centre was achievable, while he defended
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Govt scurries for effective Covid-19 response as opposition finds more holes to pick
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe last few days and, following a visit to the city by Health Minister Vassilis Kikilias, government spokesman Stelios Petsas announced that the city, along with Serres, would go into a stricter... claim that all the ICU beds in the city have been filled over the last few days. Not all
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Athens prepares for Ukraine talks with Nuland as Dendias visits Odessa
PoliticsForeign Policyof the Alliance. Dendias in Odessa Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias arrived in the Ukrainian port city of Odessa on Sunday to oversee the delivery of humanitarian aid to the city’s municipal authorities. He also..., is that we are going to be part of this future by helping you reconstruct this city and make it even more
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Reconstruction funds at centre of local elections, as ND makes final push for second round
PoliticsGreek Politicsregions remaining to be contested, as well as the city of Athens where the party’s candidate... as the capital and the second largest city, Thessaloniki. On Thursday morning, the prime minister made... PASOK, pressed Bakoyiannis to account for the cost of the controversial city centre
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Opposition lines up attack on government over wildfires with visits to affected areas
PoliticsGreek Politics, farmland, villages and the suburbs of the country’s third largest city, Patras. The leader of main... on the city of Patras, where the communist mayor Kostas Peletidis was singled out for attacks by government officials after criticising the centralised response to a blaze which encircled the city for 48
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New Year reshuffle brings more MPs into cabinet, keeps key ministers in post
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe deputy agriculture minister. Interior Minister Takis Thedorikakos has also been left out of the new... Petsas has been appointed Alternate Interior Minister, to be replaced by Christos Tarantilis... to the right” and “a party-political balancing act”. The elevation to the Interior Ministry of Makis Voridis
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University bill threatens PASOK consensus as probes launched into alleged infractions by politicians
PoliticsGreek Politicsinvestigation in the Interior Ministry, which is the suspected source of the data leak, while on Tuesday.... The Interior Ministry has denied that it provides voters’ contact information, while the chief...’s EP elections, but also because the suspicions of a data leak emerged within days of the Interior
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Five things to take away from the first round of Greek local elections
PoliticsGreek Politicson the political scene. It grabbed first place in the region of Attica and a close second in the City... cause in the City of Athens and region of Attica, where around a third of Greek voters live... MP Ilias Panagiotaros got just over 11 percent of the vote. In the City of Athens the party’s
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Name and shame
Agorathat it is the northern city’s fate to be the gathering point for politicians and citizens with unrealistic.... But it paled next to the 1 million or so who gathered in Greece’s second largest city in 1992... (ANEL) MP and the vandalism of the city’s Holocaust memorial. The impression left is that if Mitsotakis
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Tsipras claims he is in no hurry to call elections after bailout exit
PoliticsGreek Politicsdoes not turn back and remains an open and democratic city,” he said. “I support the mayor’s... a long trend during which New Democracy had been in control of Greece’s second-largest city. Should..., the chances of the conservatives re-gaining the city could be slimmer. It should be noted
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