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Opposition tries to pin government down over last year's Plan X
PoliticsGreek Politicsby Galbraith. Tsipras has admitted in the past that he received advice on the possible consequences of Greece... the motivations of some of the key players, particularly Varoufakis, has given the opposition cause to believe... with Varoufakis has deteriorated significantly since he left the cabinet last year, has tried to distance
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In latest election pledge, Tsipras vows to ditch lower tax-free threshold
PoliticsGreek Politics, who has been linked to Digital Policy Minister Nikos Pappas, while also holding her current position...Alexis Tsipras has thrown a new pledge into the pre-election mix by promising not to reduce the tax... be in power when the measure has to be implemented. This could also be seen as a pre-emptive strike against
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ND anxious about impact Afghanistan tumble will have on migration
PoliticsGreek Politicsapproach to the migration issue has primarily been dictated by the fear of alienating its voter base. ND’s focus has been on reducing the number of asylum seekers reaching Greek shores and trying... of Migration and Asylum, Notis Mitarakis has advertised over recent months the decline in migrants
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Quo vadis Germany? Sunday's elections leave many questions in need of answers
Agoraparliament in Berlin. The Bundestag now has 734 MPs against 709 MPs in 2017. This number sets a new.... The 40-year-old Annalena Baerbock has been a member of the Bundestag since 2013. Apart from working as a freelance journalist for a local newspaper and holding a trainee position in a British think-tank, she
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Athens pins hopes on pan-European solution for energy crisis, as surveillance affair unfolds
PoliticsGreek PoliticsA renewed sense of urgency among European governments has revived hopes in Athens that a collective... pipeline by Gazprom. This would come as a relief for the government in Athens, which has spoken... and Portugal, has presented a number of proposals to its EU peers in recent months in the hope of urging
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Opposition fails to make inroads in spyware hearing as denials continue
PoliticsGreek Politics. Opposition parties called the hearing a travesty after the committee chair insisted on holding it behind..., the special cyber unit set up within EYP which has been linked in reports to the use of Predator, he.... In an interview given to the podcast Protagonistes, journalist Tassos Telloglou, who has co-authored
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Newsletter 363 - 16/12/2022
that Mitsotakis faces in terms of holding on for as long as possible before calling elections..., the PM has tried to keep the issue at arm’s length but each week there are new revelations and his... in November and 7.2 pct in June, according to the same polls conducted by MRB. Since June, support for ND has
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Kasselakis starts to open up as early polls show little impact on public opinion so far
PoliticsGreek PoliticsStefanos Kasselakis has given his first TV interview since his shock victory in the SYRIZA leadership race as initial opinion polls indicate his victory has had little impact so far on voters’ views... that he would continue to be “out in society”, leaving the work of holding the government to account
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Greece most socially unjust country in EU, study finds
Society). The report noted the “horrifying” increase to 23.8 percent this year of the rate of severe... that in Greece “the crisis has had a devastating effect on poverty and social exclusion... deprivation has more than doubled from 9.7 percent in 2007 to today’s 23.8 percent.” While Greece ranks
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Newsletter 86 - 02/09/2016
by 0.2 percent quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) in the second quarter (Q2), a rate slightly lower than the 0.3... in June, respectively, in the first increase since March. The new time deposit rate remained stable... on Thursday. The time deposit rate stands 35 basis points (bps) above the eurozone average, while business
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