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Newsletter 423 - 17/05/2024
vote to elect Greece’s MEPs. The joint press conference held by the two leaders saw the men praise... Minister Edi Rama to Athens to speak to members of his country’s diaspora in Greece. The Greek... for the neighbouring country. On Sunday, the spotlight also fell on a rally held by Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama
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Clashes add to political tension over division, police violence
PoliticsGreek Politicsadvised them that the man who had been beaten was a member of a radical left group and had been... as police clashed with some protestors. One policeman was dragged off his motorcycle and beaten. Along... young Greeks, in particular, to avoid violence. The sense that the centre-right party
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Apartment prices rise by 7.5 pct in Q4 and 7.2 pct in 2019
EconomyMacroeconomyapartments, classified as over five years old, saw their prices increase by 6.6 percent in Q4 versus a downward revised increase of 8.1 percent in Q3. Across 2019, old apartments saw an average price increase of 6.9 percent compared to a rise of 1.7 percent in 2018. In 2017, old apartments saw
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Greece and the euro: The flight of Icarus
Agoraas well as that of Icarus, the young man who ignored the warnings of his father, Daedalus, flew too..., as some of the people in the audience today will know very well. Greece saw joining the euro as part... meant structural factors were overlooked. A period of belt-tightening before euro entry saw Greece’s
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Greece and Albania seek path to resolving stack of differences
PoliticsGreek Politicsby Prime Minister Edi Rama. Monday’s rally demanded compensation for members of the Cham community who... leader and current premier Rama Albania's treatment of the ethnic Greek minority, the compensation... proposed a similar idea in 2014but it was rejected by Rama. Senior analysts believe that Rama is not really
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Outdoor gatherings with hint of protest raise concerns over relaxation of lockdown
PoliticsGreek Politicsand skirmishes in which petrol bombs and stones were allegedly thrown by groups of young men. A similar... incident a complaint has been filed against police by a local resident who claims to have been beaten... of the – predominantly young – people gathering in squares as a nascent protest movement against what is seen
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It's the hope that kills you
Agorawith the message of the authorities that Greece had beaten the pandemic and was now open for business... not manage to convince anyone across the age spectrum. Young people did what young people usually do
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Beleri case dents Greek-Albanian relations, puts progress on hold
PoliticsForeign Policythat Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama does not appear willing to cooperate with the Greek government... Rama, on the sidelines of NATO Summit, in Vilnius but with no concrete results. Athens believes that Rama’s government is using its strength against the Greek ethnic minority in Albania in a way
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PM broaches demographics issue, stresses role of migration
PoliticsGreek Politics. The economic crisis of the previous decade, which saw birth rates fall, emigration among young people rise... adopted a series of tax incentives aimed at tempting young Greeks who moved abroad during the previous... a recent meeting with young people he suggested that they should take a more “holistic” approach
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Athens turns its attention to settling differences with Albania
PoliticsForeign PolicyRama is under fierce criticism from the opposition while President Ilir Meta is demanding that any... saw Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared the clear winner did not surprise Athens. In fact, Kotzias
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