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Fighting fake news is a "to be or not to be" battle
Agorathing was confirmed – the enormous power of the fake news to do harm. This danger is especially evident... and groups unrelated to the established centers of power. Most of the misinformation was not original... is the power derived from their size and global connection and the balanced approach towards respecting
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Politicians have commissioned, and largely ignored, multiple reports on wildfires
SocietyDemocracy came to power promising to deliver a more competent government than its predecessor, having... with expensive and “over-rated” air power, and it recommended shifting the focus to improving the ground... was provided by snowstorm Medea in February 2021. After falling trees brought down power lines causing
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Papandreou joins KINAL leadership race amid questions about long term
PoliticsGreek Politicsby Papandreou’s return almost a decade after he was forced to relinquish power as the economic crisis... of restoring his legacy and reviving the party, which went into freefall after finding itself in power... in poor management of public finances after it first came to power in 1981. Papandreou, though
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Earth, wind & fire: Greece, clean energy & the climate crisis
Agoraof journalist Evridiki Bersi, we also take a closer look at wind power and why there are concerns about how... notes: Kyriakos Mitsotakis at COP26: https://youtu.be/iBvhVsb5WTk Evridiki's article on wind power for Reporters United: https://www.reportersunited.gr/en/6557/too-much-of-a-good-thing-wind-power
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Snow chaos puts government planning on the spot
PoliticsGreek Politicslarge sections of Athens’s northern suburbs without power for several days. Schools in the capital..., with the power network manager HEDNO/DEDDIE complaining that crews could not access faults because the roads had... power utility PCC sold a 49 pct stake in the distribution network to Australian asset manager
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Mitsotakis tries to dig way out of snowstorm fallout
PoliticsGreek Politicspower for more than 24 hours in some cases. However, this has also raised questions about the state..., when SYRIZA was in power in 2018, Mitsotakis pledged an improved response to natural disasters... to cultivate since coming to power. The government’s competence and effectiveness has now been questioned
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Parties pick from energy policy menu as EU response opens up more options
PoliticsGreek Politicson imported natural gas, and the privatisation of the national power utility PPC. In a statement issued on Wednesday, Tsipras accused Mitsotakis of protecting the profits of power companies at the expense... with a revision of floating rate calculations used by retail energy suppliers and windfall taxes on power
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Tsipras strengthens hold on leadership at fractious SYRIZA conference
PoliticsGreek Politicsmeant that SYRIZA has waited a long time for an opportunity to regroup since losing power to New... as an election manifesto, but it is clear that given the current balance of power the SYRIZA leader... acknowledged that SYRIZA is “the main but not the only power in the progressive space,” and invited
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Newsletter 337 - 13/05/2022
for a windfall tax on the “excess” profits of power companies. On Friday, Greece’s national energy regulator RAE published its report into the profits of power companies between October 2021-March 2022. The report found that vertically integrated electricity companies – those who act both as power
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Athens buoyed by content, mood of Mitsotakis trip to Washington
PoliticsForeign Policythat the visit marked for Greece a “dynamic return to the global and regional level as a leading power... Interconnector. The proposed HVDC interconnector between the Greek, Cypriot, and Israeli power grids via the world's longest submarine power cable (310 kilometres (190 mi) from Israel to Cyprus and 898
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