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Tsipras is at his strongest, but for how long?
Agorapersuasiveness and what role his personal popularity has played in convincing Greek voters to stick... receptive to Tsipras’s message. Tsipras also has the advantage of teaming up again with Independent Greeks... Popular Unity or some pro-drachma force in Greek politics. It’s also the case that Tsipras has proved
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New Democracy prepares for leadership vote after abrasive campaign
PoliticsGreek Politicsindicated that among those who say they will vote on Sunday, Meimarakis has 33.54 percent. He is followed.... Meimarakis has run a relatively low-key campaign and tried to use the fact that he is the incumbent... the Meimarakis team had always been against. His nearest challenger appears to be Tzitzikostas, who has
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Leaving Greece's annus horribilis behind
Agoraremains a work in progress. The damage done in the first half of 2015 has created a level of caution and lack of confidence, which has all sides involved emphasizing the need to continue rebuilding, regaining and re-engaging in the political commodity of mutual trust. What has been damaged once can
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Greece stands on fault line between vicious and virtuous cycles for 2016
Agoraof the July 12 summit there has been nothing to suggest a repeat of the tension of 2015. In fact, since Tsipras signed the agreement he has paid over 4 billion euros to the IMF and nobody seems to have noticed. Not only did he emerge victorious from the September election, his new government has
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In grip of protests, coalition searches for ways to lift mood
PoliticsGreek Politics, possibly through cuts to auxiliary and high-end main pensions, it is clear that Tsipras has to seek... in the fight against tax evasion. SYRIZA has started discussing since the beginning of the year its ideas... they could study their fiscal impact. It is not clear if this has now happened or if the government has
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Diplomatic tension over refugee crisis grows as Greece protests to Austria
PoliticsForeign PolicyGreece revealed on Tuesday that it has delivered a demarche to Vienna to complain about Vienna’s... to a report in TA NEA newspaper, which has been confirmed by Greek diplomatic sources, Ankara has raised... to a report in To Vima daily Vienna has expressed willingness to contribute to finding a solution
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A marriage of inconvenience
Agoracounterpart Ismail Cem. Alexis Tsipras, though, has joined the tail-end of the party, when the euphoria has... what is going on in the wider region. The ongoing war in Syria has made Turkey, in Greek eyes..., a country with which the Tsipras government has been trying to cultivate relations. The worsening
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Greek relief at EU-Turkey refugee deal but heavy lifting lies ahead
PoliticsForeign Policyto the plan’s design, all this has to happen over just a few days, whereas asylum appeals in Greece alone currently take months. Technical and legal tasks There are several steps that Greece has to take... will be provided by the EU, will be needed in order to put the scheme into operation. The EU has also appointed
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Newsletter 75 - 27/05/2016
-bills this month and getting very little that tangible in return from Greece’s lenders has caused... surrounding debt relief for Greece. The fact that the discussion has been delayed again until later this year... as a counterbalance to the clutch of unpopular measures his administration has just approved
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Turkish unrest gives Greece the shivers
Agorait may have on reunification talks in Cyprus). For starters, Greece has inadvertently found itself caught... much more complex and edgy than they have been in recent times. The current government has made... in the energy sector via the Trans-Adriatic pipeline (TAP). Since then, though, Ahmet Davutoğlu has
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