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Benefits and banana skins for Greece in EU-Turkey refugee deal
PoliticsForeign Policyto Turkey. The EU has offered to resettle refugees directly from Turkey in a further effort to deter people... manageable. The Greek government has been advocating for several months that refugees should be relocated... the refugees and migrants. At the moment, it is a slow and laborious process for which Athens has limited
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Mitsotakis, Konstantopoulou intending to test Tsipras's mettle
PoliticsGreek PoliticsKyriakos Mitsotakis has decided to be more aggressive in his criticism of the government over this issue... in Greece a “disgrace,” which is by far the most powerful language he has used to criticise... relations battle over this particular issue and that the government has managed to get across its
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Gov't under scrutiny over relationship with judicial system
PoliticsForeign PolicyThe government’s relationship with the Greek judiciary has come under increasing criticism... it issued recently criticising the country’s top judge. Thanou has been under the spotlight since launching... and abusing her position as head of the country’s top court. The government has avoided becoming
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Brussels attacks prompt fears in Athens over handling of refugee crisis
PoliticsForeign Policyis on the German chancellor, who is one of the few EU leaders who believes in the plan and has the weight... as ensure that it has enough capacity at the detention facilities that will be needed. A total... 650,000 Albanians moved to Greece. “So Albania, too, has extensive experience of the movement
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Locating Europe's pulse in the refugee crisis
Agorais experiencing. The catalyst for this quandary over the EU’s raison d’etre has been the arrival of hundreds of thousands of refugees on Europe’s shores since last year. Europe’s response has often seemed... fences have gone up. This has not resembled the progressive, open and self-confident EU that many
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Uncomfortable parallels: The Greek and British referendums
Agoraon European Union membership. In both cases, reason has collided with emotion. Just as in Greece... what they say with facts. In this era of so-called “post-truth politics”, it has become standard... into voting “Yes” because it wanted to protect its interests. The same argument has been made in the UK
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Russia and China prove hot topics in Tsipras-Obama talks at NATO Summit
PoliticsForeign Policyintervention by saying “this is something you ought to tell your friend Putin,” the government has tried... with an aim to end the crisis in Syria. Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias has supported this position for a long time and even Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos has expressed similar views while meeting
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After calm summer, hectic September lies ahead for Greek government
EconomyProgrammereforms and bank governance. On the privatisation front, the government has to agree.... This board then has to select the Board of Directors, while the new fund should be fully operational... minister. In addition, the government has to transfer to the new fund a second group of state-owned
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Effort to unite PASOK and Potami seems to have hit a wall
PoliticsGreek Politicsreportedly wants the campaign to last three months. The Potami leader has also proposed that the two parties cease to exist as separate political entities once the new leader has been elected, while Gennimata has indicated that she wants there to be some kind of transition process leading to unification
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Mitsotakis pledges tax cuts, looks for party balance and broad appeal
PoliticsGreek PoliticsNew Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis has pledged to reduce the ENFIA property level by 30 percent in his first two years of governing, suggesting that he has identified tax cuts as the main tool... the ENFIA tax as the prime example given that it has been a very unpopular levy, particularly
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