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Police actions in spotlight again after fatal shooting
PoliticsGreek Politicsreaction from the Roma community, when it emerged that the victims were Roma. The Panhellenic Confederation of Greek Roma issued a detailed statement in which questions were asked about the incident... and disturbances occurred on the outskirts of Roma settlements in various parts of the country, the most serious
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Newsletter 277 -11/12/2020
PM rebuffs Covid-19 criticism Mitsotakis defends govt stance but is forced to extend some measures until Jan After being forced to extend Covid-19 restrictions into January, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis tried to defend this week his, and his gover...
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Optimism and obstacles in Spain
Agorait. The government tends to attribute it to its reforms and economists sometimes explain progress by pointing to cycles. However, for all the upbeat economic news, Spaniards have yet to reap any reward from..., an economist from Funcas, a prominent think-tank, says in an interview with MacroPolis. Growth
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Newsletter 13 - 30/01/2015
SYRIZA aims for major change Basis of discussion with lenders not clear yet SYRIZA’s clear election... not even yet taken the oath of office was staggering. Avoiding the microphones pointed at them would have... government’s missives has yet to convince a sceptical public in Greece, let alone those with whom
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PM joins forces with some eurozone partners to lobby for "corona-bond"
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and eight other European leaders wrote a letter to European Council president Charles Michel on Wednesday, ahead of Thursday’s teleconference, arguing for a coordinated eurozone-level response to mitigate the impact of...
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Video talk: How to make the most out of EU "Corona funds"
AgoraA video talk featuring Juan Pablo Riesgo, a partner of Ernst & Young and former Secretary of State for Employment in Spain, and Nick Malkoutzis, editor of MacroPolis, discussing how Spain and Greece should best use the Recovery Fund package proposed by ...
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Greece steps up effort to bolster relations with Iran
PoliticsForeign Policyan “action plan” with his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif which will be ready to be signed when
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Adoptions fall by 18.5 pct in 2016 as recent decline continues
Societyit emerged that a distinctly light-featured child living with a Roma family in central Greece had been given up by her Bulgarian Roma parents to the Greek Roma couple. The child was placed in the care
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Council of Europe report warns over austerity-inflamed inequality in education
Societyeducation. Roma children, who tend to live outside of urban areas, were particularly impacted by school mergers. Roma children were also found to attend schools that were effectively segregated from... with disabilities, supported by one-on-one assistance, and Roma children into mainstream schooling
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Surveillance and Qatargate threaten to overshadow budget debate
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe latest police shooting incident, after a Roma teenager died in hospital several days after being shot... it to a similar incident in Athens a year ago in which another young Roma died after a car chase... between Roma protesters and the police in the days since the incident, as the victim’s relatives
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