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Greece a gateway and scapegoat in EU's refugee crisis
AgoraArea because of concerns about its patchy approach to the refugee crisis. Tsipras has much... Policy Yiannis Mouzalas claims that Greece has repeatedly asked for more help from Frontex but has... capitals that Athens had been resisting help from the EU border agency, which has been involved
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The first cut is the deepest? Greek pension reforms in context
EconomyFeatures– a look he has affected for well over a decade – adopts an alarmed look. The caption screams “NEW... the timestamp of any date from 2010 to the present day, as pension scaremongering has become... of Greece’s elderly. Although a burgeoning pension deficit has been the elephant in the room of Greek
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The main economic challenges that will define the Mitsotakis reign
Agorabetter economic shape than in it has been for many years. While many of the scars of the long crisis are still evident, the recovery has begun. Albeit modestly, the economy has been expanding continuously since the first quarter of 2017, while employment has grown by more than 300,000, which has
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Our cruel summer
Agora” or “Pakistani” to be used liberally as a catch-all description for anyone deemed to be inferior or dispensable
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ND's opinion poll decline thrusts PASOK back into spotlight
PoliticsGreek Politicshas dropped from 30.2 pct to 27.4 pct following the deadly train crash. As in the other surveys..., it is notable that the gap between the two leading parties has narrowed to 2.9 points from 5.9 points..., including cost of living and the “correct functioning of the state.” The opposition party has consistently
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Newsletter 407 - 12/01/2024
PoliticsMarriage equality bill draws attention in modernisation driveThe focus this week has been... has referred to as Greece’s “modernisation.” The public consultation period for two bills, one... Democracy came to power in 2019, has been completed. A bill concerning the creation of a National
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The nightmare of our choice
Agoratwo years has been like Marlow’s: As we picked our way through crumpled, charred train carriages... – it has been corroded by our own caustic mix of inefficiency and selfishness. As the Financial Times... is threatening to bring our Potemkin village of success crashing down. Two years on from the tragedy, nobody has
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Newsletter 14 - 06/02/2015
the temporary arrangement is in place. The broader agreement, to be clinched before Greece has to pay.... The government has around 1.5 billion euros in cash reserves and about the same amount from general... Parliament, this one will reject them out of hand. Instead, what Varoufakis has indicated that Athens
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After an international agreement comes the domestic politics
Agora) counterpart Zoran Zaev will hold. In the short-term, Zaev has committed to putting the deal to a referendum... on both sides. Skopje has apparently accepted that it will have to change the country’s name from..., in other words domestically and internationally. Furthermore, Zaev has agreed to review his country’s
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Newsletter 444 - 06/12/2024
by the state intelligence service. The PM has tried to draw a line under the affair by promising an investigation, but the PASOK leader has accused him of trying to sweep it under the carpet without... to disagree on specific policy proposals that PASOK has been putting forward in recent days, including
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