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  1. SYRIZA launches membership drive but still struggles with 2015 backwash
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    overshadowed by the dragging up of the party’s problematic past. The party has launched a website.... The effort to focus on the party’s future has been overshadowed to some extent by the revival... to avoid Varoufakis and his party profiting from the fallout. SYRIZA has settled on a narrative

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  2. Greece worst in EU for gender equality as power resides overwhelmingly with men
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    Society

    The latest report by the European Institute on Gender Equality (EIGE) for 2019 has revealed... score has risen by only 4.4 points between 2005 to 2017. The EU average score was 67.4 points... with children, women earn 22 percent less than men and 23 percent less where the couple has

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  3. Greek concerns about name deal grow after North Macedonia's EU bid is blocked
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    with Skopje during the recent European Council. Even though the Greek government has avoided... foreign minister and constitutional expert Evangelos Venizelos and has to do with the provision... but the Greek side has not made any moves so far. The issue is expected to be further delayed due

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  4. S&P raises Greek rating to 'BB-' on reduced fiscal risks, lifting of capital controls
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    Economy

    positive outlook for the country. Now S&P and Fitch are on a par, while Moody’s has Greece one grade..., the agency notes that Greece has one of the most advantageous debt profiles of all the sovereigns it rates..., after the final disbursement from the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), Greece has a sizable cash

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  5. Xi's visit carries promise of closer Sino-Greek political, economic ties
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    between the two countries and recognises that Greece has an important role to play in promoting further... that it has a more elevated political status in Beijing’s eyes. In this respect, the suggestion... Democracy may also find that it has to tread carefully in balancing its desire to cultivate

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  6. The dragon's head roars in Athens
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    Agora

    increase by a further 40 million euros as project construction progresses. The loan has a maturity... agreement which the EIB has ever made available for a maritime project in Greece. With the EIB now... in a major Chinese infrastructure project in Greece the EU now has skin in the game. Meanwhile, the Chinese

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  7. Constitutional changes and Tsipras's leadership under scrutiny
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    but these complaints were rejected on Wednesday. The opposition party has proposed an alternative system... are needed for this article to be altered. SYRIZA has made this something of a flagship issue... to introduce regarding the diaspora vote. Interior Minister Takis Theodorikakos believes that he has achieved

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  8. Constitution tweaked, consensus sought for Greek diaspora vote and next president
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    that Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis does not seem to be considering proposing a second term) has already... the nationalist party was part of the governing coalition with SYRIZA. The controversy has been fuelled... has not been averse to favouritism since it came to power even though the reaction in the local

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  9. Focus shifts to DSA, fiscal targets after IMF loan prepayment
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    EconomyProgramme

    of the outstanding obligations to the IMF has been completed after Athens paid ahead of time 2.7 billion euros... euros. Greece has already repaid the Stand-by Arrangement of the first programme and until yesterday’s... Greece has to start repaying next year. Not factoring in T-bills, the Greek authorities have

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  10. PM aims to maintain pace of economic reforms as public worries about migration

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    representing PPC workers, has strong objections to the change in hiring rules at the power company... flexibility in the company’s workforce. In his meetings with European leaders, Mitsotakis has reportedly... the government aims to make in the coming months. Progress on this front has been slow since the summer

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