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New asylum law comes up against old failings
Agora. Another key difference is that the Netherlands has developed and adapted its asylum policy over several decades, whereas circumstances and political indifference over many years mean that Greece has had... at Rijswijk refugee centre The Netherlands has focussed its efforts on creating not only a swift asylum
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ELTA CEO resignation fails to stem political fallout from post office closures
PoliticsGreek Politicscontinues to unfold, as it becomes evident that the decision has raised wider issues which... that the closures announcement has provoked in their constituencies, particularly in the regions, where voters have been complaining about rural abandonment. Rural voters say that this is the latest
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Will the real men of unity please stand up?
Agorapenchant for not wearing ties has been the cause of lightheartedness from the moment SYRIZA came to power.... Tsipras, after all, has answered numerous questions about his refusal to wear ties and has been able... Varoufakis’s tendency not to tuck in his shirt has also drawn numerous, mostly negative, comments
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Can the Green Transition be just?
Agorabillion has been earmarked for the acceleration of renewable energy sources (RES) development... scheme will be distinct from the existing ETS (ETS-1), which has been in operation since 2005... reveals, Greece has been performing worse than the European average; emissions from the buildings
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PM identifies pending pensions as key problem, while row brews over media law
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has identified clearing the pensions backlog as one... retires. He admitted, though, in the remote meeting of ND’s parliamentary group that this has proved... credibility. Although the government has created a new electronic platform, Atlas, to help achieve
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Corruption claims, foreign policy missteps impede government’s efforts to build momentum
PoliticsGreek Politicsserved at the Rural Development Ministry during the 2019-2024 period investigated by the European... OPEKEPE officials allegedly colluded with representatives of the Rural Development Ministry... for the areas in question. The response from Athens has been to reject the Libyan claims and insist
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Government on alert again as farming subsidy probe zeroes in on two ex-ministers
PoliticsGreek Politics) in Athens announced on Thursday that it has passed over to the Greek Parliament information regarding the alleged involvement of two former rural development ministers, reported to be New Democracy’s..., the possible involvement of the two former ministers in wrongdoing means that the case file has
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Opposition takes aim at PM's inner circle over subsidy fraud as scandal halts ND rebound
PoliticsGreek Politicspayments, it has emerged that the instruction was overridden a few months later when a new rural..., confident that fresh evidence will be enough to implicate PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis. The scandal has... the high turnover at the top of the organisation and in the rural development ministry which oversees
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Newsletter 323 - 14/01/2022
less deadly. There has been a significant increase in Covid-related hospitalisations over the last... strain but insisted that it “has not collapsed and will not collapse.” The government announced... in January. There has been disagreement within the government about whether VAT on some goods should
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U.S. and China are still in reconnaissance mode, but for how long?
Agorastruggle in a framework that’s too complex to authoritatively read through. While nobody has a crystal... and a clear-cut Trump 2.0 China policy has yet to take shape. Being highly unpredictable, the U.S. president himself has toggled at times between positive signals and threats to China, though his statements
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