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Newsletter 178 -12/10/2018
own line Alexis Tsipras’s coalition partner, Defence Minister Panos Kammenos, has been causing... alliance with Greece’s neighbour, and suggested that numerous sites in Greece could be made available... Tsipras’s intentions to try to ratify the agreement he reached earlier this year with his FYROM
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Newsletter 218 -06/09/2019
as prime minister this weekend, when he plans to set out the government’s plans for another round of tax... brief summer holiday, the Greek prime minister has stressed his government’s efforts to make Greece... the Council of State upheld the company’s appeals against previous Energy Minister Giorgos Stathakis, who
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SYRIZA looks back at time in office as it searches for way forward
PoliticsGreek Politicsofficials have delivered their assessment of the party’s performance while in office. The evaluation of SYRIZA’s course over the last few years was compiled by a three-man team led by former Deputy Prime Minister Yiannis Dragasakis and is due to be discussed at a meeting of the party’s central committee
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On lockdown: The moments that will remain
AgoraIf we’re lucky (and, let’s be honest, circumstance will have played some part), we’ll look back... with the restrictions. From one balcony, a family’s chatter signalled an effort to maintain normality or maybe it belied the mounting tension that came from spending weeks in each other’s presence, with no job
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Newsletter 262 -04/09/2020
front as long as the priority remains supporting businesses and households affected by the pandemic’s... officials also committed publicly over the last few days to increasing Greece’s defence budget... some of New Democracy’s pledges regarding permanently lowering the tax burden and ensuring public
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Bulgaria's Covid-19 vaccination fiasco: excessive risks, mediocre results
AgoraIn a recent opinion piece by the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal, the EU’s Covid-19 vaccine rollout has been dubbed a fiasco. However, if one looks at EU’s poorest and most corrupt member Bulgaria, one will see a catastrophe. While EU’s vaccination response has been lukewarm, its
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Kasselakis completes stunning victory, taking SYRIZA into uncharted territory
PoliticsGreek PoliticsStefanos Kasselakis completed on Sunday night his astounding ascendancy to SYRIZA’s leadership less than a month after announcing his candidacy and only a few months before being named on the party’s... and voters. Kasselakis gained around 57 pct of almost 134,000 votes cast, while his only rival in Sunday’s
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Newsletter 401 - 10/11/2023
critics within the party, when SYRIZA’s central committee meets this weekend. Members of the left... because they do not believe in or trust Kasselakis’s leadership. It is likely that this will precipitate... committed to leftist politics or possibly any ideology at all. The new party’s aim will be to stem
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Newsletter 423 - 17/05/2024
to be having a major impact on the party’s prospects for the upcoming European Parliament elections. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara... vote to elect Greece’s MEPs. The joint press conference held by the two leaders saw the men praise
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Newsletter 438 - 25/10/2024
called on to offer reassurance this week, this time over the government’s handling of relations... for fear of stoking tension with Ankara. The minister’s response, which deflected responsibility... signalling their intention to challenge Mitsotakis’s pick for President when the Katerina Sakellaropoulou’s
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