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Newsletter 166 -15/06/2018
the longstanding Macedonia name dispute has triggered turmoil in Greek domestic politics. Parliament is due to hold... settle a diplomatic dispute that has dragged on for more than a quarter of a century. Under... will be used erga omnes, in other words both domestically and internationally. This has long been
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Tracing the decline of the middle class as parties vie for its votes
EconomyFeaturesThe plight of the Greek middle class has emerged as the dominant theme of the campaign for the July...) households’ disposable income fell by more than a third between 2010-2016 and has shown only... from tax returns shows that there has been a dramatic downward shift in earnings over the years
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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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Newsletter 259 -24/07/2020
and investment policies for the 2021-23 period. The government has already indicated it will be basing its..., while the OECD has pointed out in its latest report that immediate work on reforms must continue post... to Mitsotakis but the prime minister has avoided going into detail about what is in the proposal and what
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Greece's post-lockdown hubris
Agorathe general public has embraced the scientific guidance in the post-lockdown environment. What went... – flock. It is fortunate that the anti-lockdown or anti-mask message has not been consciously adopted... provided another forum for sceptics and conspiracy theorists of all stripes, whose stock-in-trade has
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Trouble from Turkey prompts plans for extra defence spending after years of cuts
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe growing tension between Greece and Turkey has sparked talk among government officials in Athens about boosting defence spending which, in turn, has fuelled positive and critical reaction from commentators. There has been speculation for several weeks that the Greek government is preparing
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Newsletter 267 -02/10/2020
visited the naval base at Souda Bay in Crete. The US has had an interest for some time in upgrading its... would become the home for US expeditionary sea base, the USS Hershel “Woody” Williams. The ship has... that the US-Greek “military-to-military relationship has been enhanced significantly.” He described
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North Macedonia's road to Brussels: Breaking the vicious cycle
Agoraof Justice. Last year, however, the road to Brussels was closed once again. Now Bulgaria has set its mind... the process, which has led to a dead-end. At this point, the conditionality policy has been compromised... is simply not ready for new enlargement. With things as they are in the Union, functioning has become
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It will happen when it happens - The vaccination entanglement in North Macedonia
AgoraThe Government of the Republic of North Macedonia has agreed on 833,000 doses of the AstraZeneca..., arrived in the country at the end of March. While the Government has consistently insisted... government had returned the advance payment because the Macedonian Government has included a phantom
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Post-Covid era dawns on new landscape for bad debt in Greece
EconomyFeaturesthe line, a new set of instruments and institutions has emerged to manage bad debt, a large portion of which has been transferred from the banks to other entities. The new landscape which has emerged presents a sunnier prospect for banks but has not removed bad debt from the picture. The management
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