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Retail sales conclude 2025 with jump of 6.9 pct YoY in Dec
EconomyMacroeconomywas also up by 1.1 percent. Compared to December 2024, automotive fuel was down by 2.5 percent, non... percent and food and beverages were up by 6.8 percent. Clothing and footwear moved up with 2.8 percent... down by 1.2 percent, a 6.8 percent rise in foods and non-food up by 7.7 percent. According
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Mitsotakis hoping for stability dividend, but Predator lurks in background
PoliticsGreek Politicsbegun to firm up: A cluster of recent opinion polls - all conducted after the outbreak...-up”. This is why the government is moving aggressively to keep the political initiative. The PM’s...”. Predator, he said, was “the weapon of a shadow state apparatus set up by the prime minister
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Strong rise in food sales pushes 7 pct YoY increase in Jan retail
EconomyMacroeconomymonthly movement was also up by 0.9 percent. Compared to January 2025, automotive fuel was down sharply... sales rose by 14.4 percent and food and beverages were up by 8.5 percent. Clothing and footwear moved up with a 4.9 percent rise. Pharmaceuticals increased by 5.1 percent YoY. The volume data captures
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Murder the result of Golden Dawn acting with impunity and targeting working class neighbourhoods
Society- was, it hardly came as a surprise after months of neofascist Golden Dawn stepping up its presence on Greek..., over the last few years. This kind of action peaked in the days building up to Fyssas’s murder... members in Perama, western Athens, as they were putting up posters. Several of the victims were taken
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In hindsight it would have been nicer
Agorarequire additional financing that no one in the eurozone was willing to put up. In the meantime... of the 2008 financial crisis. Instead of ending up loading up their books with additional debt
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The social and economic conditions that helped Golden Dawn flourish
Societybehaviour? Golden Dawn is a mysterious phenomenon. It did not even show up in opinion polls until December... deprivation showed the proportion of Greeks in this state went up from 22 percent in 2008 to 28... and roughly double the rate in eurozone partner The Netherlands. It was also substantially up
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Lest we forget
Agorapolitical system and institutions fulfilling their role should not allow the events that have led up... as authorities plan in the months to come and Golden Dawn MPs are locked up, Greece cannot let up in its
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Parties on edge as Golden Dawn case has potential to go either way
PoliticsGreek Politicsof up to 10 years. The possibility that Golden Dawn will be a thorn in the government’s side... in the Greek justice system, although he did keep up criticism of Dendias for not acting earlier and failing... carefully underlines the Greek political system’s fear that the pursuit of Golden Dawn could blow up in its
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A quarter-pounder democracy
Agorato start “smashing things up” before he’d even left the grounds of the court complex. Later... efforts to shake up Greece’s public administration have been a disappointment so far. Greece’s tax... there is pressure from the grassroots up to produce ideas that can be turned into policies, which can
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Submarine deal resurfaces, threatening new political divisions
PoliticsGreek Politicslast week, when SYRIZA brought up the issue in Parliament. Venizelos felt that current Defence... Venizelos, who reacted immediately in Parliament and reportedly followed this up by calling Prime... but with European elections coming up in May and speculation that general elections might not be far off
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