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  1. New waste strategy dials down recycling targets, promises to address landfill problems
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    Greece’s Environment and Energy Ministry unveiled a new waste management strategy on Thursday, setting targets for packaging recycling and extending organic waste collection. Special consideration was given to waste management on the islands, where the problem of illegal landfills has been

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  2. Election Watch: What are Greeks voting for?
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    Agora

    to austerity but strictly through a new national currency. The key problem that the breakaway party faces... on Potami that it should be struggling to inspire people when the Union of Centrists, a party run

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  3. Foreign minister toughens stance as first autumn polls pile pressure on government
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    be countered “in the field”. Work on the cable was paused in the summer of 2024 after Turkish warships saw... second term. Perhaps the most significant finding of the polls from the government’s perspective.... Mitsotakis knows that he needs to court a wide range of constituencies to have any chance of winning

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  4. Newsletter 87 - 09/09/2016

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    as it is not showing “responsibility and solidarity”. The problem is that this argument was made... on Friday meant that the focus was very much on finding common ground on issues such as growth... to recognise reality, while finding someone to pin the blame on. When German Interior Minister Thomas de

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  5. BoG and HFSF schemes under scrutiny as banks look for a way forward on bad loans
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    EconomyBanking

    , liquidations and write-offs, will gradually reduce problem loans over the coming 18 months,” their report... strong interest. The portfolio contains around 2 billion euros-worth of housing loans. Non-binding... by the winning bidder, while at the same time manifesting positively on the bank’s bottom line. BoG plan

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  6. Greece: After a deal, work on a solution
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    , but the momentum for change was fading even before Syriza came to power. The problem is that institutional...-term, cross-party package that addresses its institutional problems and is supported across Greek civil... state control. Tackling these problems will take Greek ideas, Greek resolve, Greek perseverance

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  7. Has SYRIZA's moment gone?
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    by refining its message or it could remain faithful to its radical roots. The problem is that Tsipras...In June 2012, SYRIZA came within 171,000 votes of winning Greece’s national elections as part... debate about extremism without finding a way to rise above the so-called “strategy of tension.” It has

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  8. The conundrum of Greek olive oil exports
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    of the olive press is where the problem lies. Over 60 percent of what Greece produces is immediately... of olive oil for export, beautifully packaged to attract the international market. But even finding... gourmet products which are winning awards. The recognition they get might spur a change in economic

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  9. Androulakis well-placed to retain PASOK leadership as Doukas sneaks into run-off ballot
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    on the backfoot going into the run-off ballot. This also speaks to a wider problem for PASOK... newcomer has of springing a major surprise and winning Sunday’s ballot. It was also noted on Sunday that Doukas performed poorly in Athens, just under a year after causing an upset by winning

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  10. Government hopes new affordable homes bill can help alleviate housing pressure
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    Greece’s demographic, as well as housing, problem by making available quality, affordable homes... as part of its effort to tackle structural problems and boost its chances of winning a third term... conservatives are to revive their chances of winning an outright majority in the next general

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