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Grassroots protests highlight public discontent with development policies
PoliticsGreek Politicsby the union of workers in the city’s water utility EYATH supported by the association of musicians... in the city centre, including a proposal by a hotel chain to convert one of them into a conference venue... for the conservative vote. Sentiment in Greece’s second largest city has been particularly affected
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Dead fish in Volos cause big political stink
PoliticsGreek PoliticsMore than 100 tons of dead fish that washed up off the port city of Volos in central Greece... towards the city in central Greece from nearby Lake Karla, which was drained in the 1960s..., the developments in the port city are a reminder of how the growing environmental challenges
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ND highlights housing initiatives as Athens waste row rekindles hopes of progressive alliance
PoliticsGreek Politicsalliance between the two parties which won city hall in the last local elections. The government... for a progressive alliance on the national scene. Athens mayor Haris Doukas, who won city hall for PASOK... euros to 30 million euros without notice, after the city council had already approved its budget
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Greece and the euro: The flight of Icarus
Agorapublishers, William Randolph Hearst, who also owned newspapers in this city, said: “News is something... witnessing fascists attacking migrants and other minorities in city streets with the police either
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From soup kitchens to school meals, demand for welfare in Athens is surging
SocietyThe City of Athens has conducted the first ever survey of people using its welfare services, including soup kitchens, and the findings of its report provide further cause for concern about the social... most worryingly, the City of Athens survey also found that the number of families asking
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Newsletter 5 - 28/11/2014
managers in the City. Despite two days of meetings in Paris, the Greek government delegation, led... policy priorities. The reception their proposals received in the City is indicative of the work
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From London to Paris, no happy returns for Greece
Agorapriorities to a select group of investment bankers and hedge fund managers in the City. Despite two... their proposals received in the City is indicative of the work that remains to be done, in Athens
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Newsletter 72 - 06/05/2016
their willingness to help being shunned. Mateusz Klinowski, the mayor of the small city of Wadowice... that the city should host refugees. Poland’s government, though, had other ideas and made it clear it had
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Locating Europe's pulse in the refugee crisis
Agora, the mayor of the small city of Wadowice in southern Poland, recounts how he was the first local... of Wadowice’s most famous son that the city should host refugees. Poland’s government, though, had
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New Democracy latches on to SYRIZA confusion over law and order
PoliticsGreek Politics” front. The decision by police in Thessaloniki last week to clear squats in the northern city... repeatedly expressed concern about crime levels in the city centre, and offered his unreserved support
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