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A campaign that leaves Greece in pain
Agora– the first vote in Greece since the general elections of September 2015 – has confirmed the dire state... attempts to argue that Greece’s centre-right party has to be defeated as part of an EU-wide effort... the future of the EU and Greece’s place in it. The campaign has been little more than a proxy war
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Parties' competing tax pledges come up against challenging reality
EconomyFeaturesof national elections which are now scheduled for July 7. Lowering the tax-free threshold in 2020 has... has declined at an even higher rate. Around 82 percent of all income declared in 2017 came from... distribution has also shifted, with low-to-middle income earners (up to 20,000 euros) shouldering
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The "great replacement" comes to Greece - how a far-right meme appeared in mainstream politics
Society-religious agenda, which has adopted the vocabulary of the “great replacement” theory popular... and pseudo-scientific theories, while the subject of abortion rights has been brought to the fore by fringe.... While many of these groups have been in existence for decades, their membership has been steadily
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Newsletter 248 -24/04/2020
from the virus has passed and Greek politics, as well as daily life, can start returning to what might.... The government has put together a special task force focussing on ways to reopen the tourism sector..., building on the confidence that Greece has earned in the markets and in its handling of the pandemic
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Newsletter 286 - 26/02/2021
of the National Theatre earlier this month. Much of the opposition’s attention has been focussed on Culture... almost three weeks ago. SYRIZA has called for Mendoni to resign, if not for appointing Lignadis..., will also help switch the focus to other matters. Top of the agenda is a labour reform bill, which has been
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Excess of vaccines in Serbia will go to waste
AgoraTo Good Health (Uzdravlje)! In one video we can see a boxer putting on a mask even though he has defeated... has hinted that something was awry, although there still hasn’t been any official indication... the beginning of the year he said several times that he will get the vaccine, but that has
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Newsletter 291 - 02/04/2021
the government has called “Greece 2.0”, includes around 170 investment projects and reforms..., which subsidises energy efficiency upgrades for households, has Of the 18.2 billion euros... the government has stated that many of the digital objectives are also spread out of the other three
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Politicians have commissioned, and largely ignored, multiple reports on wildfires
Societydisasters. In the intervening two years it has staked its reputation on the management of the Covid-19 pandemic. The unfolding fire disaster, however, naturally raises the question of how much has changed since 2019, and how far ND has gone in improving Greece’s wildfire preparedness. The political
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Short-term fix for electricity bills leaves open questions for green transition strategy
Societymix - and more under certain critical conditions. In response, the government has announced... in the generation mix has increased over recent years as the country has invested in natural gas... polluting lignite for power generation. Although the contribution of brown coal to the generation mix has
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PM stands firm on Covid rules as health data deteriorates fast
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis insisted on Monday that his government has no intention... restrictions could be adopted for unvaccinated Greeks. New Democracy has made it clear that it believes... population has been fully vaccinated so far. This approach has drawn criticism from the opposition
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