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  1. Newsletter 408 - 19/01/2024

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    abstain from the vote, which is expected in February, rather than oppose the draft legislation... half of the centre-right deputies would back the bill. Nevertheless, it means that more than 50 New... than so-called daily life issues, while just over a third said they believe

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  2. Newsletter 425 - 31/05/2024

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    rejected the claim that even some Greek products are more expensive in Greece than other parts of Europe... to check on the price of feta. In every case, the price of the cheese was higher than 6.28 euros per kilo... failing to address the problem or contributing to it through its policies. SYRIZA has proposed a package

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  3. Newsletter 441 - 15/11/2024

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    of leftist politics than SYRIZA, which he argued had become a party more focussed on preserving its processes and personalities rather than on policy. However, serious doubts remain about Kasselakis... because it gained a larger share of the national vote than PASOK in last year’s general election

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  4. Greece in danger of repeating familiar mistakes with Golden Dawn
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    . In the 2009 national elections, Golden Dawn gained less than 0.3 percent of the vote. In June 2012, 6.9... in the political system, this time on solid rather than ramshackle foundations. There can be no room... counterweight to neofascist Golden Dawn. In this environment, right-wing extremism is enabled rather than

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  5. PASOK's future hangs in balance as Greece prepares for EU vote
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    percent of the vote. Getting even less than this in the EU vote would be a serious blow to PASOK... anything more than help overcome turbulence in the short-term. Equally, if Venizelos calls a party... in the EU elections prove better than expected then Venizelos will be under much less pressure, especially

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  6. Newsletter 79 - 24/06/2016

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    goods deficit of 1.15 billion, more than offsetting a narrowing of the services’ surplus by 875... million. The weak receipts are due to lower foreign arrivals (down 5.3 percent), more than offsetting.... This more than offset a decline in the services surplus by 307 million. The shrinking deficit

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  7. Thinking outside of the box

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    by the government and more than four channels were already operating, has been questioned. Pappas’s... 200 million euros. The coalition’s view is that allowing more than four channels to operate... closed the state broadcaster because they wanted to silence it rather than for fiscal reasons

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  8. Refugee crisis charade adds insult to EU's injuries
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    ) in official accommodation in Greece, there are more than 12,500 people on island hotspots when the capacity is for just under 7,500, there are currently more than 100 refugees arriving each day.... In the wake of the deal being signed, arrivals dropped to less than 50 a day. In recent weeks

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  9. Newsletter 98 - 02/12/2016

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    is still the country’s greatest problem. Tsakalotos also insisted that Athens would not back down on its.... Rather than the criticism of his decision to fly to Havana, Tsipras will probably have been more... higher than last year’s figure of 3.05 billion, which is also attributed to the ongoing loan

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  10. IMF sets out its stall as review deliberations resume in Athens
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    Greece exempts more than half of taxpayers from paying taxes. This compares to an average of just 8 percent in the eurozone. The tax-free threshold stands at 8,750 euros in Greece and is higher than... is “far from sufficient to address the scale of the problem,” the IMF says. Commenting on the argument

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