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Mitsotakis treads carefully as pupils protest Macedonia name deal
PoliticsGreek Politicsin the centre of Thessaloniki on Thursday, were instigated by Golden Dawn and other far-right groups... talks with Skopje. This allowed SYRIZA to accuse its opponent of siding with nationalists and the far... for Change (KINAL), presenting itself as the real opponent of the right and far-right in Greece
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Looming vote on Prespes Agreement triggers political upheaval
PoliticsGreek Politicsof Parliament. Government officials suggested that these were far-right extremists and supporters of Golden... the far-right. New Democracy, though, insisted that SYRIZA tried to disrupt the event and opposition... of the crowd at 60,000, which, if accurate, is lower than the rallies held early last year and far
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KINAL and To Potami snub Tsipras's call for progressives to pull together
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAlexis Tsipras called for “progressive” forces to unite against the far-right and “neoliberal... force on the left and centre-left after the elections. His overtures to KINAL and To Potami have so far... far have been from the fringes of KINAL. He also dismissed the Gefyra initiative as being dead
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Name protests, scandal allegations inflame SYRIZA-ND rivalry
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat Mitsotakis got a taste of his own medicine in Veria. “Mr Mitsotakis embraced far-right practices, he... to the right and this is causing the far-right organisations to be beyond control.” The conservatives... Dawn members, and accused SYRIZA of favouring an increase in the support for the far-right
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Tsipras, Mitsotakis step up rhetoric ahead of EU vote as polls show little change
PoliticsGreek Politicstheme of preventing the advance of the far-right in Europe, but also the more local theme of making... and Europe’s far-right via the EPP’s lead candidate for the European Commission presidency, Manfred Weber, who is due to officially launch his campaign in Athens on Tuesday. “The far-right does not dress up
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The benefits of being Greek
Agoraare thinking of Golden Dawn or the likes or Kyriakos Velopoulos, who leads Greek Solution. How far... foreign. Therein lies the second problem. Even if one assumes (which is far from certain) that non-EU... play to a far-right gallery to ensure his parliamentary majority by weakening minor far-right
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New asylum law comes up against old failings
Agoraavailable so far this year shows that a significant proportion of arrivals in Greece are from... authorities also have 400 case officers in the Repatriation and Departure Service, far outstripping... into local communities. The Rijswijk centre is not located in a far-flung field or on the site
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Learning the lessons of Greece's toxic decade
Agoraor taking a risk with the SYRIZA radicals. Greeks decided that trusting Tsipras was a step too far... in the antimnimonio formula could serve him well. Although he never went as far as Samaras and Tsipras in Zappeio or Thessaloniki, he stood against the programme and went as far as suggesting that Tsipras had
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PM faces complex challenge as Turkey threatens free passage for refugees
PoliticsGreek Politicsmember of the government who has adopted more right-wing positions on the issue, going as far to suggest... nation – a variation of the “great replacement” theory popular in far-right circles in the west. Mitsotakis has so far attempted to close off this space by overhauling Greece’s asylum system with the aim
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Newsletter 262 -04/09/2020
advantage the Finance Ministry has in its calculations so far is that it does not need to replicate for 2021 the 7 billion euros of stimulus measures adopted so far this year. Also, to avoid putting... (ELSTAT) data showed this week. The latest month’s reading is the second lowest drop in the year so far
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