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A brief lexicon of the Cyprus issue negotiations
Agorasettlement is not to make the conflicting sides love each other and sing Kumbaya together. The aim
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Elections results present fresh challenges for SYRIZA and New Democracy
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe final results from Sunday’s European Parliament elections confirmed that SYRIZA gained... on Monday and repeated the request he made on Sunday night for general elections to be held “as soon... it handles Sunday’s victory and if it can strike a balance between keeping up the pressure on the government
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Tsipras shuns growing calls for compromise on presidential vote
PoliticsGreek Politicsto win the presidential vote, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras used an op-ed in Sunday’s Ethnos to make..., on Sunday, Tsipras insisted SYRIZA will not back down from its insistence that elections should be held... and national catastrophe.” Also, perhaps wary of the way that Samaras was forced to abandon his anti
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Edgy atmosphere ahead of new protest over Macedonia name issue
PoliticsGreek PoliticsA frenzied atmosphere is developing ahead of Sunday’s protest over the Macedonia issue as talks.... One of the people claiming to be helping organise Sunday’s rally also called in a social media post... of Athens on Sunday. Anarchist groups have also planned a counter-demonstration to be held in the capital
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Credit contraction decelerates to 0.9 pct in April, net additions climb to 659 mln
EconomyMacroeconomy. The positive flow in April is almost entirely attributed to corporate sector net additions of 763... positive for the third successive month, with net additions climbing to 763 million in April
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Nightmare on Democracy Street
Agora. There was a stark reminder of the country’s unresolved past on Sunday, September 15, when hundreds...-old man, Pavlos Fyssas, who was reportedly targeted because he used anti-fascist lyrics in his rap... have added to this with a fierce anti-immigration policy and a failure to clamp down on Golden Dawn’s
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As SYRIZA looks towards centre, will New Democracy turn to its right?
PoliticsGreek Politicsof Greece, where many still see the leftists as anti-European. “We are a pro-European force... allies, the anti-bailout Independent Greeks and Democratic Left (DIMAR), both performed terribly on May... that there is not much more support for SYRIZA to draw from the far left. Anti-capitalist ANTARSYA and pro
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Tsipras is at his strongest, but for how long?
AgoraWorking out how Alexis Tsipras went from anti-austerity crusader to comfortably winning an election... responsibility” for the murder of anti-fascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas. Many Greeks decided there was no point..., with the referendum in July with Sunday’s vote, and ending up on the winning side, Tsipras may start
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The "great replacement" comes to Greece - how a far-right meme appeared in mainstream politics
Society, particularly those of a quasi-religious or nationalistic nature, such as the anti-Prespes movement... the first Sunday after Christmas the “Day of the Unborn Child” as a contribution to solving... as false or misleading. The Athens Metro poster copies an anti-abortion internet meme which misrepresents
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Mitsotakis clinches big majority in second election, but small parties could complicate matters
PoliticsGreek PoliticsKyriakos Mitsotakis was re-elected as Prime Minister with a convincing win on Sunday as his party... be seen as a knock-on effect of the anti-vax movement that emerged in Greece during the Covid pandemic and an anti-abortion movement that has been evident over the last few years. Questions remain about
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