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Tsipras facing decision over timing of vote on Prespes Agreement
PoliticsGreek Politicsregarding the Macedonia name agreement, which looks set to trigger the end of SYRIZA’s coalition... that the Interior Ministry is asking for an extra 60 million euros from the Finance Ministry to carry out... to discuss election issues. Interior Minister Alexis Haritsis has reportedly stepped up his meetings
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Newsletter 279 -13/11/2020
discussion that the government had set aside the advice of some experts to cancel the religious.... Interior Minister Takis Thedorikakos was also left out of the new line-up to be replaced by Agriculture... Interior Minister, to be replaced by Christos Tarantilis. Altogether, 17 changes were made, including
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Parties gear up for vote on bill permitting private universities
PoliticsGreek Politicsdisagree. The proposal to allow foreign universities to set up branches in Greece, thereby bypassing... before receiving an email from the Interior Ministry regarding the postal vote. The inference... available and does not contain contact information. The Interior Ministry issued a statement denying
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Newsletter 52 - 20/11/2015
passed the omnibus bill containing the last set of prior actions to unlock the next sub-tranche of 2... into the Unified Auxiliary Insurance Fund (ETEA). The first set of new pension measures would reportedly target... or included in the second set of prior actions. Harder and more painful, the second set of measures
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ND prepares first three bills for votes before Parliament's summer recess
PoliticsGreek Politics’s 158 MPs would vote, but what policy agenda the centre-right party would set out over the three-day debate. The government is set to bring three bills to Parliament by August 10, when the House... is also set to contain a provision for the scrapping of the so-called university "asylum" law, which
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The "King of the North" seeking to heal a fractured kingdom
Agorafor a single parliamentary seat. In reality, though, it has become a proxy for a much larger... dependent in areas where public control is necessary for resilience. He proposes instead a set... speaks of is not a formal doctrine but a set of ideas derived from the experience of governing the city
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OECD forecasts unemployment increase into 2021
EconomyFeaturesthe single hit scenario, Greece’s employment growth is set to fall by 3.5 percent this year and by 1... year. The rate of unemployment under the single hit scenario is projected to rise by 2.1 percentage... next year. Real GDP growth for Greece is expected to shrink by 8 percent this year under a single
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Europe missed an opportunity on banking union
![Illustration by Manos Symeonakis [http://www.cartoonmovement.com/p/6035]](resources/toolip/img-thumb/2013/12/23/euflagbank_agora_symeonakis-medium.jpg "Illustration by Manos Symeonakis [http://www.cartoonmovement.com/p/6035]")
Agorabetween banks and sovereigns." In this case, the sovereigns were members of the single currency whose... on what form the single resolution mechanism for this banking union would take. Wednesday’s deal... on the countries of Southern Europe. This brings us to the second pillar, the single resolution mechanism
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Parliament's bailout probe has potential to be politically toxic
PoliticsGreek PoliticsParliament is set to discuss in the next few days (possibly on Monday) a proposal by SYRIZA and Independent Greeks MPs to set up an inquiry into the circumstances in which Greece signed up to both... forces. It is a perhaps not such an uncanny coincidence that the parliamentary inquiry is set
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Trash dispute troubles SYRIZA ahead of political lull
PoliticsGreek Politics, though, seems set to keep up its pressure on the government via other means, especially by highlighting... disbursement, Athens will have to show that it has used the 0.8 billion euros set aside from that tranche to clear arrears, which currently stand at around 5 billion euros. It will also have to set aside some
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