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Our cruel summer
Agorasaid in radio communication with other crew members aired on Greek TV. “I thought he was black...” or “Pakistani” to be used liberally as a catch-all description for anyone deemed to be inferior or dispensable
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Drop ‘til you shop
Agorapeople buying clothes or other goods, it can be about making the city centre or neighbourhoods... Nights initiative that the City of Athens ran in conjunction with shops in the city centre last year... effort to make this less about consumer spending and more about reviving city centres and shopping
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Varosha move puzzles amid low expectations on Cyprus
PoliticsForeign Policyup Maronite villages and the “ghost city” of Famagusta (Varosha). Government sources in both Greece... informed of any plans by the Turkish Cypriot side to hand over the fenced-off city of Varosha to UN... to discuss the opening of the ghost city as part of confidence-building measures but only under UN
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China’s Footprint in Southeast Europe: Constructing the "Balkan Silk Road"
Agoracity Skopje, the construction sites of the A2/A3 highway from Kičevo to Ohrid (57 km... reduce travel time from the capital Skopje to Štip, which is the largest city in the Eastern region.... In 2010, China’s Zhengzhou Yutong Group was chosen to supply the capital city Skopje with 202 retro
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Greeks consider antisemitism a minor issue despite recent attacks
Societymemorial in Thessaloniki had been vandalised once more, ahead of planned commemorations in the city... was home to a Jewish community of around 60,000 which had been established in the city for over 450 years. Less than 2,000 of the city’s Jewish population survived the Nazi invasion and subsequent
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Athens "Great Walk" plan scaled back amid criticism
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAn ambitious plan to pedestrianise large sections of Athens city centre has been scaled back... strong cross-party support in the city council, but its rushed implementation during the easing... as an experiment to test if reducing car traffic in the city centre was achievable, while he defended
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Govt scurries for effective Covid-19 response as opposition finds more holes to pick
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe last few days and, following a visit to the city by Health Minister Vassilis Kikilias, government spokesman Stelios Petsas announced that the city, along with Serres, would go into a stricter... claim that all the ICU beds in the city have been filled over the last few days. Not all
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Reconstruction funds at centre of local elections, as ND makes final push for second round
PoliticsGreek Politicsregions remaining to be contested, as well as the city of Athens where the party’s candidate... as the capital and the second largest city, Thessaloniki. On Thursday morning, the prime minister made... PASOK, pressed Bakoyiannis to account for the cost of the controversial city centre
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Opposition lines up attack on government over wildfires with visits to affected areas
PoliticsGreek Politics, farmland, villages and the suburbs of the country’s third largest city, Patras. The leader of main... on the city of Patras, where the communist mayor Kostas Peletidis was singled out for attacks by government officials after criticising the centralised response to a blaze which encircled the city for 48
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Eurobank records net loss of 207.4 mln in Q1
EconomyBankingto weaker NII from the international operations. The non-performing loan (NPL) ratio rose by 150 bps to 30.9 percent from 29.4 percent in Q4. NPL coverage increased by 40 bps QoQ to 50.3 percent. The NPL formation remained almost stable QoQ, yet incorporated two contradicting trends. In Greece
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