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A campaign that leaves Greece in pain
Agora– the first vote in Greece since the general elections of September 2015 – has confirmed the dire state... attempts to argue that Greece’s centre-right party has to be defeated as part of an EU-wide effort... the future of the EU and Greece’s place in it. The campaign has been little more than a proxy war
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EU elections in Greece: Applying a different scale of values
Agorafigures are best assessed from a distance. “When the perspective of time has lengthened, all stands...’ thoughts. Also, when there has been a notable shift there is a temptation to exaggerate its importance... populism in Greece either started, or has finished, with SYRIZA’s troubled reign. Populism in the everyday
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Parties' competing tax pledges come up against challenging reality
EconomyFeaturesof national elections which are now scheduled for July 7. Lowering the tax-free threshold in 2020 has... has declined at an even higher rate. Around 82 percent of all income declared in 2017 came from... distribution has also shifted, with low-to-middle income earners (up to 20,000 euros) shouldering
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Newsletter 214 -12/07/2019
Mitsotakis has picked his new cabinet, held a first meeting with his ministers and decided the first... foresee the scrapping of the university asylum provisions. has a team of three deputy minister... Vesyropoulos, who’s the deputy in charge of tax policy and the public wealth, has been an MP for ND since
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Newsletter 248 -24/04/2020
from the virus has passed and Greek politics, as well as daily life, can start returning to what might.... The government has put together a special task force focussing on ways to reopen the tourism sector..., building on the confidence that Greece has earned in the markets and in its handling of the pandemic
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Newsletter 282 -29/01/2021
in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean. However, a new, broader process has also begun regarding EU-Turkish... that in the past the Turkish side has also tried to put on the table of talks issues related... following Monday’s meeting, but the Greek side has played down expectations about any kind
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Newsletter 286 - 26/02/2021
of the National Theatre earlier this month. Much of the opposition’s attention has been focussed on Culture... almost three weeks ago. SYRIZA has called for Mendoni to resign, if not for appointing Lignadis..., will also help switch the focus to other matters. Top of the agenda is a labour reform bill, which has been
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Excess of vaccines in Serbia will go to waste
AgoraTo Good Health (Uzdravlje)! In one video we can see a boxer putting on a mask even though he has defeated... has hinted that something was awry, although there still hasn’t been any official indication... the beginning of the year he said several times that he will get the vaccine, but that has
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Newsletter 291 - 02/04/2021
the government has called “Greece 2.0”, includes around 170 investment projects and reforms..., which subsidises energy efficiency upgrades for households, has Of the 18.2 billion euros... the government has stated that many of the digital objectives are also spread out of the other three
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Politicians have commissioned, and largely ignored, multiple reports on wildfires
Societydisasters. In the intervening two years it has staked its reputation on the management of the Covid-19 pandemic. The unfolding fire disaster, however, naturally raises the question of how much has changed since 2019, and how far ND has gone in improving Greece’s wildfire preparedness. The political
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