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Pandora's box ajar for Turkey and Greece?
AgoraErdoğan's visit to Greece was the first in 65 years after one of the founding fathers of the Turkish... to Ankara. According to Turkish press reports on November 22, one of the key targets of the visit... right before the visit. One of President Erdoğan's frequently cited mottos these days is: "We might
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Check, please: How much Alexis Tsipras's first months cost Greece
Agoraand 2020, mostly to appease the fiscal concerns of the International Monetary Fund. Fast forward one year... was the one that managed to take Greece out of the MOUs, albeit with a delay. However, can Greece’s prime... by 0.7 percent that year. In Q3, it expanded by 1.3 percent compared to the previous year, which was one
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Newsletter 145
with the number of coalition MPs, but one of those votes came from an independent lawmaker, Theodora Megalooikonomou, who previously represented the Union of Centrists. Her vote made up for the one lost... significant of those was one introducing jail sentences of up to 6 months for anyone obstructing
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Pensions continue to be main source of income for half of Greek households
Societyfall into the category of long-term unemployed. One in five households has a member who gets paid... the other responses remained broadly in line with recent years. Almost one fifth (19.6 percent) of households had one member with overdue tax obligations. For the coming year, one in four households
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Newsletter 152 -23/02/2018
review, which had not yet been completed. One of those, which involved the Council of State... that now Greece is emerging from the bailout, SYRIZA is turning its attention to one of the key pledges... will be carried out by a committee made up of 21 members (10 from SYRIZA and one from junior
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Greek families shell out for education as state system falls short
Societyis one of just a few countries in Europe with no external assessment or system of quality assurance... raising state spending on education. The issue of external assessment and autonomy is one that has... system showed that the Greek system is one of the most centralised in the OECD, with 78 percent
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Parties mark out battle lines for next elections
PoliticsGreek Politicsgovernment would be the one to take the country out. “We are taking steady steps towards the exit, leaving... coalition, despite the difficulties it has faced and mistakes it has made, is the one that will oversee... that Tsipras has to play. It is certain to be one of the main pillars of the party’s election campaign
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Growth, not just of the economic variety
Agora), there was a brief item referring to the inside pages, while one newspaper (Eleftheros Typos) bore... in the group of seven that are supportive of the government, only one (Ethnos) referenced the GDP data... growth figures. One of the possible explanations for this oversight is that the left-leaning media has
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Coalition hails multi-bill as start of clean break, opposition sees more of the same
PoliticsGreek Politicswas one of several cabinet minister emphasising over the weekend the positives that the government... of the out-of-court workout and a switch from next year to a one-out-one-in hiring policy... would retain the five-out-one-in rule that was adopted as part of Greece’s first programme. Keeping
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After an international agreement comes the domestic politics
Agorahatred. Like any diplomatic deal, the one presented by Tsipras and Zaev contains some compromises... Republic of Macedonia to Republic of North Macedonia and that the new one will be used erga omnes... as Macedonian (Citizens of the Republic of North Macedonia). This will be a hard one for many Greeks
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