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Parties locked in tug of war over troubled universities
SocietyMinister Kostas Gavroglou has accused Mitsotakis of being driven by an “extreme neoliberal fixation” whose ultimate aim is to abolish free state education. Mitsotakis has pledged to bring a comprehensive...-reform Pledging to scrap a predecessor’s education policy has become a recurring motif in Greek
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In grip of protests, coalition searches for ways to lift mood
PoliticsGreek PoliticsSYRIZA can make a difference, even if it has to implement bailout measures that it does not agree..., 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
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Newsletter 288 - 12/03/2021
“blind rage” and said that when he was elected, he pledged to unite Greeks. “I will not let anyone tear.... The government’s critics argue that at no stage has the prime minister expressed concern about what... to monitor police violence, headed by constitutional expert Nikos Alivizatos, has wound-up its activities
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Parties at odds over latest pandemic measures, way to tackle Covid wave
PoliticsGreek Politicstreat patients. So far, the government has only announced such a measure for the services of private...) to use a new methodology to measure Covid-related deaths. So far, it had been using the World Health... and has chosen to stick with a line of defence that puts the responsibility for the high number
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Has SYRIZA's moment gone?
Agoraof years Tsipras has shown considerable skill in appealing to voters that are not part of the party’s traditional support base. He has also been prepared to bring SYRIZA out of its introspective... Schaeuble. He has not shied away from clarifying the party’s positions on an international stage either
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Labour market reforms did exactly what they were supposed to
Agoraeducation or training and the needs of the labour market. To address those issues, several reforms..., “The fact that the burden of the adjustment has been borne largely by wage earners has increased resistance... employment has been steadily increasing in Greece over the last decade to a peak of 10.5 percent in Q1
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Many obstacles to clear in Greece's digital leap
EconomyFeaturesgiant Pfizer has announced the creation of a digital research hub in Greece, while the government... statistics, around 8 in 10 Greek households has an internet connection, the World Internet Project... only has a website. Greece as a whole also ranks low on innovation benchmarks, investing only 1.27
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Party leaders back on road with rival election pledges after Easter break
PoliticsGreek Politicsare formally declared. His campaign schedule has him visiting military training facilities in Attica as well... forces have been on an election footing for several weeks. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has laid... Tsipras has been presenting the key planks of his party’s programme, which fall into four key areas
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Mitsotakis pleads for strong mandate as polls suggest ND heading for landslide win
PoliticsGreek Politicshas been drawing support from ultranationalist Greek Solution since the European Parliament elections... also appealed to traditional right-wing voters by returning to the law and order issue that has... magazine. The opposition leader has repeatedly vowed to clamp down on this kind of activity, accusing
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Tsipras, Mitsotakis cast gloves aside as pre-election fight gets personal
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe political battle ahead of the European and local election on May 26 has taken a bitter... lines the government has tried to place between itself and the graft of the past are an illusion. He... that Katerina Panagopoulou has been a special adviser to the prime minister on diaspora issues for the last
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