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Between the sword and the olive branch: Dilemmas of Greek diplomacy
Agora, Lebanon and Egypt. However, Nicosia has discovered that in the see-saw reality of the eastern.... There is a danger that the discovery of hydrocarbons off Cyprus, which was seen by many as a potentially... besieged Kobane, the Europeans and Americans cannot afford to write him off. The volatility sweeping
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Newsletter 5 - 28/11/2014
euros off target at the end of October despite a primary surplus of 2.65 billion. Revenues excluding... million off target. 2 From Paris to London No happy returns yet for Athens in crucial troika talks... of their respective European trips this week. This week saw Greek politicians clock up air miles to European
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Newsletter 41 - 04/09/2015
decided to pay the whole amount via credit card. While those taxpayers paid off the amount in 6 to 12... a strong rebound by 4.1 percent in May. Turnover in department stores saw the biggest decline (-16.2... of the zeal for a clean-up that it claims it has. The SYRIZA leader points to a dusting off
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Newsletter 77 - 10/06/2016
are scheduled to officially sign off on the disbursement on June 16. Earlier this week one of the key... take is on the debt situation, you can take Grexit off the table”. The Hellenic Statistical Authority... on the issue, the government could find itself embroiled in an institutional stand-off in the future
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Newsletter 80 - 01/07/2016
consequences for Greece. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras saw it as an opportunity to underline his... injected vitality into the Leave campaign, went off to play cricket; and his other Leave colleagues... spreading lies and stoking hate. “You were only meant to blow the bloody doors off,” Michael Gove’s wife
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Losing game: Another doomed effort to revive Greek football?
Agoraconditions off the field and any sense of fair competition in general. Between 2010 and 2017, average.... Shifting the goalposts The lifeblood of the game is being cut off but few of those involved seem... and its fierce rival, PAOK. Many in Greece saw this dispute as a proxy war between the club’s two owners
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Speculation about snap polls after summer revived by PM's US trip
PoliticsGreek Politicsrecently saw strong turnouts for internal voting procedures and Mitsotakis may have seen this as a warning... an argument that Mitsotakis is better off holding elections before the 2023 budget has to be tabled... significantly improved his ratings and shown that his government’s foreign policy is paying off. Although his
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Newsletter 392 - 08/09/2023
and damage, has thrown political developments off course. The impact of Storm Daniel forced... was due to take place this Sunday, with the run-off ballot due next Saturday. Instead, the first election... flooded in Thessaly, an area that lives off farming to a large extent. Apart from disrupting the plans
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PASOK leadership ballot draws attention away from PM's deepening rift with predecessors
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the first round of voting, which saw PASOK leader Nikos Androulakis and Athens Mayor Haris Doukas qualify... ministers Pavlos Geroulanos or Anna Diamantopoulou making it into the run-off vote as they have more... that if Doukas is to have any chance of winning this Sunday’s run-off vote against Androulakis, he
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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... sustainability have been put off. One of the reasons is that the government’s aggregate vote came
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