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Government lines up crackdown on NGOs as next piece in harsher migration policy
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government is doubling down on the stricter migration policy and harsher rhetoric on the issue, which has intensified since Thanos Plevris took over as the country's Migration Minister. The ruling New Democracy party is hoping that this change of st...
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New Year reshuffle brings more MPs into cabinet, keeps key ministers in post
PoliticsGreek Politicscalling for in recent weeks. One of the highest-profile casualties of the reshuffle is Labour Secretary... – however critics note that it is still far from representative, with women still holding fewer than one... the deputy agriculture minister. Interior Minister Takis Thedorikakos has also been left out of the new
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Newsletter 24 - 24/04/2015
on May 6, of which around one-third is held by foreign investors, who remain reluctant to roll over... incremental ELA usage of 1.1 billion in just one week. From Riga with nought Greece fails to secure... to be overcome for one to be reached. At the same time, the liquidity pressure on the Greek government
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China’s Footprint in Southeast Europe: Constructing the "Balkan Silk Road"
Agoraand challenges for the extension of China’s Balkan Silk Road. The final piece will place China’s activities... Corridors In one major respect, the FYR of Macedonia is an outlier in the Chinese investment and economic... was escalating. One means to achieve this objective was to simultaneously recognize Taiwan, which in turn
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University bill threatens PASOK consensus as probes launched into alleged infractions by politicians
PoliticsGreek Politicsto have persuaded one of the rebels to toe the line, while the other is hinting that they may abstain... investigation in the Interior Ministry, which is the suspected source of the data leak, while on Tuesday.... The Interior Ministry has denied that it provides voters’ contact information, while the chief
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Newsletter 16 - 20/02/2015
Tackling the revenue lag EU institutions may object to certain changes for paying tax arrears One... week. Revenue collection is one of the key issues for the new government since the January figure fell short of target by almost 1 billion euros. One of the reasons for this revenue lag, according
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Politicians have commissioned, and largely ignored, multiple reports on wildfires
Societyto implementation”. To return to the issue of firefighting planes, which is just one of many: In 2007, according to one of the most detailed reports on the subject, Greece was already equipped with the largest... prevention and suppression responsibilities which had been implemented through a landmark piece
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Awaiting the magic wand that will end the pandemic
Agoranot happened yet. Currently, 46.30 percent of the population in Croatia has been vaccinated with at least one... of Freedom". The last one lasted as long as four hours and was held on the central square of Zagreb... and misinformation about the virus and vaccination. Among other things, one could hear that the vaccine
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Newsletter 72 - 06/05/2016
of the “one in, one out” agreement with Turkey from human rights groups – these are just some... on a small scale, other times on a larger one, to receive and integrate refugees into their communities. Organised by the Public Diplomacy Council of Catalonia (Diplocat), the one-day event saw a series
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Locating Europe's pulse in the refugee crisis
Agoracriticism on moral and legal grounds of the “one in, one out” agreement with Turkey from human... stories of efforts, sometimes on a small scale, other times on a larger one, to receive...), the one-day event saw a series of experts, officials and activists give their accounts of schemes
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