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EU enlargement - a moving target that is moving further away
Agoraof whether the process itself "is working" if no one is making progress, and many countries have not been... been, for the most part, so far. However, one year after its adoption, it has not been elaborated... is that each member state can at any time "invent" a new criterion, one that is not relevant to the nature
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Newsletter 283 -05/02/2021
service sector – one of the worst hit by the lockdowns – is poised to seek compensation from the state, claiming inadequate economic assistance. Apart from being one of the Greek economy’s key employers... off the systemic banks’ books, within one year of operation, and three months before the scheme
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Health service in spotlight as govt scrabbles for more measures to contain Covid
PoliticsGreek Politicson Wednesday, a day after the previous one, to decide on what restrictions should be adopted. Reports... a lockdown similar to the one at the start of the pandemic last year, arguing that the current one is too lax... to the New Democracy administration is one of the reasons that the centre-right party retains a sizable
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Company closures dropped sharply during the pandemic
EconomyFeaturesthe Hellenic Statistical Authority. The picture presented is one of relative stasis, which could provide... – mostly this is due to it being one of the most populous sectors, accounting for 16.2 percent of all... actually dropped 18.9 percent. In fact, only one sector saw an increase in the number of closures
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A brief lexicon of the Cyprus issue negotiations
Agora, there will be two constituent states – one Greek-Cypriot and one Turkish-Cypriot. Each constituent state... that the central government will not have the power to adopt measures that harm the interests of one... of one of the agreed parameters makes a possible settlement even more elusive. But it is not surprising
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Under scrutiny, government defends vaccine strategy
PoliticsGreek Politicspupils and teachers will only have to conduct one self-test per week before going to school, rather than... the country is best prepared to welcome visitors given it is “one of the slowest countries in Europe” to get... that Greece has administered at least one dose 25% of the population, which is almost five points below
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Anger over wildfires grows as PM prepares lines of defence
PoliticsGreek Politicsby the 112 mechanism and the limited loss of life that this helped achieve (so far only one death... but also raised questions about the strategy of evacuating one community after another and, in the eyes... to be the number one goal. However, since Mitsotakis’s speech last Thursday, the extent of damage inflicted
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The final stretch: Can fearmongering swing the German electorate?
AgoraOne week to go. On Sunday, September 26, German citizens will cast their ballots in a watershed... is a long time in politics. One more televised debate with the three competing candidates... the last week of campaigning is desperately necessary to make up lost ground and possibly overtake one
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Newsletter 309 - 24/09/2021
to set out a rival economic plan to the one presented by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis earlier... administration’s labour reforms as one of its most contentious policies, the SYRIZA chief said that he would... agenda, and one of the areas where the opposition has found grounds for attack on ideological grounds
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After travels, domestic issues and party scepticism await Mitsotakis
PoliticsGreek Politicslead in the opinion polls, the prime minister is not without his critics. One of his predecessors... amounting to roughly 3.5 billion euros this year and next. This is one of the reasons that since the TIF..., the additional growth will be shared out as a “social dividend,” which could be in the form of one-off
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