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From Berlin to Brexit
Agorain the tournament. These simple acts of people feeling at home in a country they may not have been born...“So, you are here?” said the check-in attendant at Berlin’s Tegel Airport. The man, who appeared to have a Somali background, had a charming smile. His comment was in reference to my British passport
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May is the cruelest month
Agorarelationship. However, European leaders fear that Theresa May’s government might be too fragile... showing a 20 point lead for the Conservatives. This suggested a landslide that would have allowed May... process. At the same time, the 13 new Scottish Conservative MPs and their leader Ruth Davidson may
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Newsletter 9 - 30/12/2014
the advantage of having a victory, albeit not convincing, in May’s European Parliament elections under... percentage points between the May and June 2012 elections largely by focussing on the possibility... with the troika as well as on economic recovery. Before last May’s European Parliament elections
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Gov't adopts patchwork of measures to overcome liquidity problems
EconomyProgramme: 310 million on March 6, 348 million on March 13 and 581 million on March 16. The last tranche... billion in May and 2.5 billion in June, according to PDMA. Through an amendment included in the law... remaining 310 million relate to 90 percent of HFSF current cash reserves that until the end of 2015
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Significant fall in migrant arrivals but camp conditions a growing concern
PoliticsGreek Politicsis that the agreement may not hold up for much longer if Turkey feels the EU is not keeping up its side... the following week,” said the Commission. “The expectation is to reach by mid-May the capacity... refugees hit by a police van at the Idomeni camp in northern Greece died on Thursday, while another
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New team at Finance Ministry tasked with familiar old juggling act
PoliticsGreek Politics-electoral giveaways, which the institutions blame for derailing the budget. That may have saved votes... seems the most probable way out of the fix. Hard as that may be, it would be less damaging... the party since 2013. Mitsotakis’s may have made one of his shrewdest choices in appointing the highly
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Speculation about May elections revived by SYRIZA officials' comments
PoliticsGreek Politicspolls in May. SYRIZA MP Nikos Fylis became the latest high-profile member of the leftist government... be on another date [apart from the end of the government’s four-year term], by which I mean May.” His comment... Skourletis that were also seen as talking up the possibility of elections being held in May along
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Voting for brinkmanship while the real economy needs solutions
Agoradays of 2014. The election of the country’s president by parliament through an open roll call may... that await urgent clarification and sustainable solutions from the forthcoming political authorities... period to settle in. The international creditors in the troika await the conclusion of the fifth review
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Opposition irate over watchdog briefing as govt hints at "rogue network" behind surveillance
PoliticsGreek Politicsin which he elaborates on the theory that the surveillance programme may have been carried out... voters, and may be in part responsible for the small uptick in the ratings of SYRIZA, which is seen... Democracy polling short of an outright majority in the upcoming elections, this may also explain why
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Coalition prepares final legislation for review, opposition expects no upsets for now
PoliticsGreek Politicsto complete the remaining bailout measures ahead of the May 24 Eurogroup. Another 1 percent of GDP... fund may prove the most sensitive as even some ministers (shipping, transport and energy) have... some eyebrows to be raised when he chose to speak at an event organized by liberal party Drasi, rather
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