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Short-term fix for electricity bills leaves open questions for green transition strategy
Societypolluting lignite for power generation. Although the contribution of brown coal to the generation mix has.... The Public Power Corporation (PPC), the majority state-owned power company which operates Greece’s legacy... electricity consumption dropped significantly, renewables produced half of the power used in Greece
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For Greek families, electricity goes from given to must for survival
Societythat had been cut off from the power grid due to being unable to pay their bills. It also promised..., the Public Power Corporation (PPC) revealed that it was cutting off electricity to about 30,000 homes... using due to a lack of electricity. A citizens’ movement that illegally reconnects homes to the power
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Don't celebrate a French reconnection for EU just yet
Agora, bringing it to power in January 2015. The refusal of left-wing candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon to endorse... results for PS. Vacuum The power sucked away from parties like PS, PASOK, Labour in the UK and PSOE...). The Netherlands, for instance, is used to having a plethora of parties in Parliament but power has become
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I know what you did the summer before last
Agorawas elected to power and the morning of July 13, when a bleary-eyed Tsipras emerged from long... SYRIZA came to power, yet this scheme has also been claimed by American economist James Galbraith... how a small, radical party of opposition that was so detached from reality was able to gain power
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Fears and reassurances over PPC's dire finances
EconomyFeaturesa billion euros from continued operations, the future of the Public Power Corporation (PPC) has been a topic.... The national power company has been treated with kid gloves by various Greek governments during.... Old-fashioned Although its hold over the Greek power market has been loosening lately as consumers
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Losing game: Another doomed effort to revive Greek football?
Agorathe sport as a vehicle for wielding power and advancing their business or political interests. Too... contract with public broadcaster ERT. Soon after coming to power, New Democracy announced... been down this road before and little changed. Also, this appeal to a higher (and foreign) power
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North Macedonia's road to Brussels: Breaking the vicious cycle
Agoraand loss of its transformative power, which was so necessary and expected by the citizens... in interethnic relations is mainly maintained through the division of power between the political elites... citizens with power and powerful institutions. We need the EU, but not as a replacement for our
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Snow melts in Athens, political row over storm response heats up
PoliticsGreek Politicswere the result of trees falling onto power lines, leading to some 250,000 households in Attica being... in a coordinated and efficient manner. New Democracy argued that because collapsed trees caused the power outages... technicians could begin work on the power cables. Government officials also pointed to the fact
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Newsletter 285 - 19/02/2021
and related revelations. Around 250,000 households in Athens lost power between Monday and Tuesday, largely due to trees falling on overhead power cables, because of the heaviest snowfall seen in the Greek... that was damaging for the government. Around 250,000 households in Athens lost power between Monday and Tuesday due
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Tsipras hits back with own economic pledges, choice for voters to ponder
PoliticsGreek Politicsinto power. Tsipras by-passed this choice and argued that the upcoming vote, or votes, would be about saving.... The SYRIZA leader proposed the renationalisation of the Public Power Corporation so that the state holds... leaving power in 2019. He said that retirees earning up to 500 euros per month would receive a full
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