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Greek leaders' contrasting visions all a blur
Agorabecause it has the power to get the weakest back on their feet and provide them with the protection.... Mitsotakis has argued that lowering taxes would lead to lower tax evasion (as the incentive to dodge... on taxpayers has increased considerably. Although there have been significant improvements in the tax
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Newsletter 178 -12/10/2018
own line Alexis Tsipras’s coalition partner, Defence Minister Panos Kammenos, has been causing... counterpart, Zoran Zaev, while the latter proposal does not represent government policy, which has centred... vote to be held. There has been speculation that New Democracy might make such a move
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Deal or no deal? Greece wrestles with the Macedonia issue
AgoraAnyone who has tried to approach the Macedonia name issue with an open mind since it surfaced... history, complicated geography and ugly politics. This maelstrom has been at its fiercest over the last... kills off chances for reasoned discussion. But to compound matters, the public debate in Greece has
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Newsletter 195 -22/02/2019
officials have indicated that Athens has much work ahead of it if the March 11 Eurogroup is going... to be launched, which suggests that either the existing law has to be extended or there has... surveillance period. One eurozone official told Reuters that the report “is likely to say that Greece has
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With June EU Council looming, ND clarifies stance on North Macedonia and Albania
PoliticsForeign Policy. But the developments so far are not positive since France has already sent a clear message that Paris... Zaev of treachery in regard to the Prespes Agreement. For Greece, which has always favoured EU..., Kyriakos Mitsotakis has many times publicly described the compromise as "shameful." ND’s stance has
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Newsletter 202 -12/04/2019
to tap markets Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos has travelled to Washington with the aim of clinching... of the second post-programme review, the Greek government has identified the early repayment of some... owes to the IMF has an interest rate of nearly 5 percent. From a debt sustainability and fiscal
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Newsletter 210 -07/06/2019
on Monday by SYRIZA are similar to the ones that New Democracy has put forward in recent months but With parliament now dissolved ahead of the July 7 elections, Greece has shifted into election mode... will combat this by arguing that it has a more coherent plan for the economy, which includes shaping
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What will it take to reverse the Greek 'brain drain'?
SocietyMitsotakis has spoken of tempting recent emigrants back through “lower taxes and contributions, more... capacity to achieve even a limited objective. While there has been a great deal of public debate on the subject, informed by a wealth of studies and surveys, very little has been advanced in the way
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On lockdown: The moments that will remain
AgoraEuropean countries, death and suffering from Covid-19 has been limited in Greece. This gave us... will be the tokens to fire up our memories when the absurdity of our current predicament has long.... In these moments, we resembled Dr Rieux, the narrator of The Plague by Albert Camus, a book which has found
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PM denies asylum-seeker pushbacks, argues Covid-19 under control
PoliticsGreek PoliticsMediterranean. The Greek PM insisted that Turkey has been acting provocatively... Times, which alleged that Greece has been conducting illegal pushbacks of asylum-seekers from... of the reporting, linking it to a Turkish disinformation campaign, and stressed that Greece has always
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