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Historic victory for SYRIZA in EU vote unlikely to dislodge Greek coalition
PoliticsGreek Politicsopposition party could point to the fact that New Democracy and PASOK (Elia) saw their share of the vote drop... saw its support decline by a combined total of almost 11 percentage points. Nevertheless, the fact... and the regions of Attica and Central Macedonia. Attica example SYRIZA had two victories in the regions
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Newsletter 70 - 15/04/2016
Macedonia (+11.6 percent) and North Aegean (+5.3 percent). January saw the number of building permits hit... the unilateral action we saw from the SYRIZA-led administration last year. The government made it clear
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Newsletter 140 -17/11/2017
apartments, classified as over five years old, saw their prices fall by 0.7 percent in Q3. Properties up to five years old saw price falls of 0.5 percent. Properties in Athens and Thessaloniki recorded price... the Western Aegean region, where a rise of 43.3 percent was seen, followed by eastern Macedonia and Thrace
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Newsletter 232 -13/12/2019
billion euros of NPEs in overall movements that saw NPEs drop to 75.4 billion from 81.8 billion at the end... in the bond market that saw the yield on the 10-year benchmark drop to as low as 1.2 percent at the end... covered. The three largest rises were seen in western Macedonia (+102.2 percent), Crete (+43.5 percent
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Promises and challenges of Greece's "green new deal"
EconomyFeaturesDemocracy government to speed up “de-lignitisation” - though it no doubt also saw an opportunity to put... to be systematically incentivised after 2001, and the ensuing decade saw a rapid growth in the installation... in the lignite generation sector in western Macedonia and the Peloponnese. By adopting the concept
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Report on minister's surveillance ups ante for ND, as PASOK reels from MEP's arrest
PoliticsGreek Politicscould be substantially diluted over the coming months. Kaili arrest New Democracy saw an opportunity..., Kaili had taken what many saw as an ND-friendly stance, from vehemently opposing the Prespes Agreement to settle the Macedonia name issue a few years ago to downplaying the surveillance scandal more
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Warning signs for coalition after majority trimmed in multi-bill vote
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe SYRIZA and Independent Greeks (ANEL) parliamentary groups respectively. As we flagged earlier in the day, SYRIZA’s Stathis Panagoulis abstained from the vote and ANEL’s Nikos Nikolopoulos voted... that has been largely alien to him now; that of the enforcer. His coalition partner, ANEL leader Panos
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SYRIZA encounters first obstacles in governing with minority of MPs
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreeks (ANEL) earlier this month. In a vote of Parliament’s public organisations committee... of an ANEL MP during the “in principle” ballot meant that there was a danger of the draft law not having the necessary support to be adopted. The ANEL MP later complained that he had gone to the toilet
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Zaev's departure leaves ties with North Macedonia in balance
PoliticsForeign Policymany victims. The latest is North Macedonia’s prime minister, Zoran Zaev. Following the heavy... as both North Macedonia’s prime minister and leader of the ruling SDSM. This has left Greece’s... to emerge in North Macedonia. In fact, newly appointed municipal councilors elected
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Name deal and Beleri case test Greece's relations with North Macedonia, Albania
PoliticsForeign PolicyMacedonia and Albania, respectively. The new leadership in North Macedonia is attempting to de... having recently referred to Greece’s region of Macedonia as “Aegean Macedonia.” At the same time... that North Macedonia is risking its future in the European Union by disregarding the Prespes Agreement
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