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Minister pledges swift resolution as public anger over rail crash mounts
PoliticsGreek Politicsand control features. The minister acknowledged that the work had been delayed both under the present... saw the appointment of an expert committee to look into the causes of the accident, however critics... the country. The policing of the demonstrations has already caused controversy, after a heavy-handed
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Second round of local elections deliver worrying results for PM, glimmer of hope for opposition
PoliticsGreek Politicseven though he came under heavy criticism in connection to the extensive flooding in the area... on social media. It should also be noted that the Communist Party (KKE) saw its candidates win six... on to control of Greece’s third-largest city for a third term. New Democracy Mitsotakis, who spent
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How Greece sleepwalked off a cliff in 2009, in black and white
Agoraelections that saw Karamanlis’s administration lose to George Papandreou’s PASOK in a landslide... reasonable doubt to declare that there was no effort to control spending. The report stresses that although....” Uncontrolled spending and a ballooning deficit with a heavy dependency on market access, which was soon
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Newsletter 422 - 26/04/2024
European Parliament elections is becoming more intense, as exemplified by developments this week which saw... in motion to replace Stigas with a leader under the direct control of Kassidiaris and to embezzle... could mean lower heavy lifting to reach this year’s goal of 2.1 pct of GDP, a level that it needs
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Athens pleased about new EU-Egypt deal, seeks closer ties with Cairo
PoliticsForeign Policyurgently needs Egypt to control migration flows from its borders with Libya and, secondly, to improve its... not control the border with Libya, from where Sudanese refugees and Egyptian migrants cross... with flows to the Italian and Greek (from Libya to Crete) coasts. Europe is offering a "strategic
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Newsletter 18 - 06/03/2015
that for all the heavy handedness of the current Greek government, including its ill-advised comments... not sat well with European officials and there have been numerous complaints that the government
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Opposition cries foul on government's tax priorities
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the recent extreme weather - to accelerate the erosion in ND’s popularity. Critics of ND’s tax priorities... cut to fuel duty, on the grounds that he considered the move regressive compared to reducing... and KINAL accused the government of hypocrisy for arguing that fuel duty cuts would benefit the wealth
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PM embarks on persuasion exercise as political veterans pick up on public discontent
PoliticsGreek Politicsmedia the government sees it as its duty to “listen to society and work persistently to solve people’s everyday problems”, adding, “this duty is all the weightier, as in an unstable global environment... to democracy posed by the erosion of trust. Former PM Kostas Karamanlis told an audience gathered
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The "King of the North" seeking to heal a fractured kingdom
Agora, public control and civic renewal, can bridge that divide. Politics isn’t working for places like... that has lost control of essential services, allowed regional inequalities to widen, and become... dependent in areas where public control is necessary for resilience. He proposes instead a set
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Newsletter 45 - 02/10/2015
burden in the last quarter of this year appears very heavy, with a large amount of taxes due by the end... performance, which saw its share of the vote increase slightly to 28.1 from 27.8 percent in January... and household equipment, where it fell by 24.1 percent. Furniture, electrical and household equipment saw
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