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  1. Building permits increase by 12.4 pct in November
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    . The corresponding surface area rose by 4.4 percent, while volume rose by 3.4 percent. On a regional... (+62.1 percent) and western Greece (+38.5 percent). The two decreases were seen in Attica (-4.4 percent... quarterly Bank of Greece (BoG) figures showed that apartment prices rose by 9.1 percent YoY during

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  2. New asylum law comes up against old failings
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    Agora

    At the reception centre for asylum seekers in Rijswijk, bicycles are parked neatly like they would be outside any apartment complex or office block in the Netherlands. Joyous shrieks are heard nearby... where there is a reaction from local communities, such as in Vilia, where locals attacked a hotel

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  3. Evia flooding reopens government's summer wounds
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    of developments in Austria, where Chancellor Sebastian Kurz announced he would be resigning pending... a living there. This attack elicited the somewhat strange response from Alternate Interior Minister... the Austrian Chancellor was awarded a media freedom prize. Tsipras intimated that the New Democracy

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  4. Newsletter 52 - 20/11/2015

    Newsletters

    government, meanwhile, has put forward the idea of creating a “mini-Schengen” including Austria, Germany...-building within Europe is also a problem for Greece. EU interior ministers were due to agree on Friday

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  5. Greece being boxed in by refugee crisis and security concerns

    Agora

    a “mini-Schengen” including Austria, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. According... interior ministers were due to agree on Friday to tighten passport checks at the external borders

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  6. Pressure on Greece to stem migrant flow puts strain on EU ties
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    of crossings drop, while the number of migrants reaching Germany has also fallen since Austria became stricter... of refugees and migrants to northern and central Europe. EU interior ministers urged Greece to have the hot

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  7. Greek effort to heal rift with Balkan neighbours may have come too late
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    in the response from Athens is one of the factors that led to the cooperation between Austria... with suspicion and tension, the foreign and interior ministers of Greece’s neighbours accepted

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  8. It's the hope that kills you
    Athens Airport metro

    Agora

    The ski resort of Ischgl in Austria has been linked with thousands of infections around Europe... they would barely go over 0.5 pct before the season opened. Positive test rates reached 4.4 pct... with the outbreak in early March. Austrian prosecutors are investigating the claims that delays in shutting

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  9. SYRIZA's left wing ups pressure on Tsipras but PM retains authority for now
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    at the end of the two days of deliberations in a central Athens hotel. The first was on a proposal put... liquidity problem. Earlier comments by Interior Minister Nikos Voutsis were in this direction. He

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  10. Wealth in Greece plunged by 170 bln since 2007, report finds
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    Society

    in Austria, Germany and Cyprus have an even higher concentration with the 10 percent of wealth holders... at 3.5 – 4.4 percent respectively. In contrast, Slovakia has the lowest density (0.5 percent

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