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  1. Uproar over minister's home protection comments underscore sensitive nature of challenge
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    popular unrest, vividly exemplified by the anti-eviction movement in Spain, led successive governments... be drawing confidence from the failure of earlier anti-eviction protests to gather force, but this would be misplaced as the fizzling out of the nascent Greek anti-eviction movement was largely due

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  2. PM riles SYRIZA with remarks on EU anniversary

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    forces crushed demagoguery,” adding that “a double anti-European lie” promulgated by the left (SYRIZA... comments is that he wants to revive the anti-SYRIZA front that came together in 2015, when the snap... that the apparent attempt to rekindle the anti-SYRIZA front is a sign that Mitsotakis is starting to feel

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  3. Ousting of govt MP brings to fore leadership unease, angst over far right
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    the wider context, they took on an inflammatory nature. Firstly, attacks by far-right extremists on anti... journalist with vocal anti-immigration views, used online channels to expose sensitive details... was intentionally adopting the kind of anti-communist rhetoric used by the banned neo-Nazi party to gain support

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  4. First-wave champion Greece stumbles at vaccine roll-out
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    ’ effectiveness and safety. While anti-lockdown and anti-vaccination protests had been rare and sparsely... opposition party, left-wing SYRIZA, allowed its former Deputy Health Minister to go on anti-vaccine

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  5. Big two parties strengthen grip on voters, but dominance remains elusive
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    Bogdanos, an independent MP who was expelled by ND a year ago after making a series of incendiary anti-immigration and anti-Communist statements which embarrassed the ruling party. Bogdanos formed a short... the fractured picture there is a substantial pool of voters backing the ultra-nationalist anti

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  6. Mitsotakis clinches big majority in second election, but small parties could complicate matters

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    be seen as a knock-on effect of the anti-vax movement that emerged in Greece during the Covid pandemic and an anti-abortion movement that has been evident over the last few years. Questions remain about... as leftist. Instead, she has adopted a purely anti-systemic stance, with no policy programme of any

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  7. Storm fallout sweeps PM to crucial juncture early in second term

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    anti-flood works in the area. Although tens of millions of euros were set aside to restore... is demanding answers about what preparations, especially in terms of anti-flood works, have been... and improve anti-flood defences. However, it is expected that Storm Daniel will put a much bigger

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  8. Kasselakis offers more hints of a positive narrative for SYRIZA's post-Tsipras era
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    social media posts. Anti-LGBT+ violence A shocking incident which took place in Thessaloniki over the weekend has raised the subject of rising anti-LGBT+ violence. On Saturday, police made 21 arrests after... Ferreira expressed concern about a rise in anti-LGBT+ rhetoric and violence. During the debate, Greek

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  9. The education of Alexis Tsipras
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    . The truth is that Tsipras has never shown himself to be a politician that would shy away from making... a channel to the pool of politicians and voters that still remain faithful to former Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis. Pavlopoulos has been one of several politicians to represent the reticent Karamanlis

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  10. Eyeing domestic gains, Tsipras pursues closer ties with Europe's social democrats
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    and, in the process, complete the transformation of his image from firebrand to mainstream politician. Tsipras spoke... may help his image domestically as well. Foreign politicians speaking positively about his role... in 2015 and was treated as an outcast by mainstream European politicians. Lastly, Tsipras is also

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