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Newsletter 142 -1/12/2017
details The government has spent the week fighting off corruption allegations in connection... of Kammenos’s problems. Apart from the fact that he has been made a target by New Democracy, which senses... with shipowner and media boss Vangelis Marinakis. Kammenos has made numerous accusations against Marinakis
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Tsipras focussed on MoU exit in 2018 but will have to avoid pitfalls
PoliticsGreek Politicsin a much more comfortable position, especially if the growth rate picks up as is expected, than it has..., the government has pushed a “clean exit” narrative, arguing that the end of the bailout means that Greece.... So far, the discussion about what form monitoring will take has been subdued outside of Greece even
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Grand projects and even loftier ambitions drive Greece's energy project bonanza
EconomyFeaturesin 2008-2010. The recession has resulted in a backlog of 21.4 million euros’ worth of infrastructure... sector is a case in point. Since Greece introduced natural gas as a fuel in 1995, it has built... domestic demand, which peaked at just 4.5 bcm in 2011 and has yet to recover to similar levels
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Newsletter 161 -11/05/2018
by May 24 but the apparent lack of progress in completing the 88 prior actions has led to some... to the Prime Minister, Dimitris Liakos, has sent a new message to ministers asking them to speed up... related to the energy sector that Athens has to complete. It is expected that a number of them
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Name settlement triggers intense political battle
PoliticsGreek Politicsdispute has sparked political turbulence in Greece. New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who... Pavlopoulos on Wednesday and asked the latter to intervene in order for the deal, which has not yet been... of Macedonia (FYROM) Zoran Zaev this weekend. Mitsotakis also raised the issue of whether Tsipras has
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Newsletter 166 -15/06/2018
the longstanding Macedonia name dispute has triggered turmoil in Greek domestic politics. Parliament is due to hold... settle a diplomatic dispute that has dragged on for more than a quarter of a century. Under... will be used erga omnes, in other words both domestically and internationally. This has long been
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Tracing the decline of the middle class as parties vie for its votes
EconomyFeaturesThe plight of the Greek middle class has emerged as the dominant theme of the campaign for the July...) households’ disposable income fell by more than a third between 2010-2016 and has shown only... from tax returns shows that there has been a dramatic downward shift in earnings over the years
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New asylum law comes up against old failings
Agora. Another key difference is that the Netherlands has developed and adapted its asylum policy over several decades, whereas circumstances and political indifference over many years mean that Greece has had... at Rijswijk refugee centre The Netherlands has focussed its efforts on creating not only a swift asylum
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Newsletter 259 -24/07/2020
and investment policies for the 2021-23 period. The government has already indicated it will be basing its..., while the OECD has pointed out in its latest report that immediate work on reforms must continue post... to Mitsotakis but the prime minister has avoided going into detail about what is in the proposal and what
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Greece's post-lockdown hubris
Agorathe general public has embraced the scientific guidance in the post-lockdown environment. What went... – flock. It is fortunate that the anti-lockdown or anti-mask message has not been consciously adopted... provided another forum for sceptics and conspiracy theorists of all stripes, whose stock-in-trade has
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