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Government draws line between solidarity for Cyprus and involvement in Iran conflict
PoliticsGreek Politicsin the broader Middle East conflict. The message that Greece stands by Cyprus is one which simultaneously.... On Tuesday, PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis told PASOK president Nikos Androulakis in a one-to-one briefing... in Cyprus during the Persian Wars, after whom one of the frigates is named – and honoured the memory
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Newsletter 497 - 06/03/2026
command structure is fragmented, its proxies are acting autonomously, and no one can reliably predict..., offering instead one‑to‑one briefings — a choice that fuels suspicion that Mitsotakis wants to retain tight... increase non‑performing loans and force more cautious dividend strategies. One week into the conflict
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Kammenos calls for lynching of mayor but ends up boxing himself into a corner
PoliticsGreek Politicsprobe was announced, Kammenos said he was encouraging a “political lynching” not a physical one... Golden Dawn. Flirting with SYRIZA on the one hand and being compared with Golden Dawn on the other... is seeking to achieve. It seems there are rough seas ahead for the one-time Deputy Merchant Marine
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Consensus, conviction and the anti-racism bill
Agoraand policies” is particularly apt. There is, however, one thing that Samaras did not abandon, which... blows. A surge for far-right Golden Dawn is of particular concern to government officials. One... after all. One of the reasons she despised consensus was because she viewed it as “the process
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Honey, I shrunk the Greeks
Agoraby one of the many middle-aged ladies that were handing out surgical masks and asked us if we wanted..., this view that now represents the official assessment and position of one of the troika’s members was demonized and ridiculed as conspiratorial in spite of the fact that one never needed to look further than
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Coalition unwound
AgoraPrime Minister Antonis Samaras marked one year in the job on Friday by becoming the leader of what... one of its most turbulent patches in modern history. Having secured a form of stability over... Reformer: albeit one whose government has failed to make any decisive changes in the economy, public
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Is VAT all you've got?
Agora. The government hopes the VAT cut will boost one of the biggest employers in Greece’s all-important... of attracting more customers. One imagines that an agreement earlier this year, which could have been... Ministry, that the focus on the VAT in just one sector masks a much more serious economic problem
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In hindsight it would have been nicer
Agorarequire additional financing that no one in the eurozone was willing to put up. In the meantime.... Paradoxically, political instability is often referred to as one of the program’s failures although... for Greece and its people. However, there is one sentence in the 51-page document that is as striking
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If Golden Dawn MPs quit Parliament, would Greece go to elections? It's complicated
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government’s clampdown on Golden Dawn after the murder of rapper Pavlos Fyssas by one of its.... The one problem that could arise is if SYRIZA were to win more seats than New Democracy... to the one Golden Dawn lawmaker who is elected from a so-called “state” list and not in a specific
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The social and economic conditions that helped Golden Dawn flourish
Societythat party have to hold on to its votes and consolidate its position in the repeat elections one month... economic crisis. According to a Public issue analysis of the June 2012 vote almost one in three (29... unemployed for more than one year, is reflected in the fact that more than 400,000 households do
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