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  1. Deadly factory blast sparks debate on workplace safety

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    An explosion at a biscuit factory in central Greece which killed five workers has opened... has enraged the local communities where generations of workers, many of them women, lived... of the explosion that the government has been underplaying the prevalence of workplace accidents and has allowed

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  2. Newsletter 497 - 06/03/2026

    Newsletters

    PoliticsWar in Middle East puts Greek political system on edgeGreece has spent the week edging from anxious observer to actor in a crisis that is widening fast. The government has spent the week... than maintaining a principled stance. Cyprus flashpoint The deployment to Cyprus has become

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  3. Athens calibrates domestic and diplomatic response to Iran war as tension with Turkey resurfaces
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    Greece has moved into a more complex and volatile phase of the Iran crisis. The Greek government... - repatriation - has become a major logistical operation. More than 250 Greeks have already been evacuated... posture The second pillar - defence - has become the most politically charged. Athens insists its

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  4. Newsletter 498 - 13/03/2026

    Newsletters

    East has rippled through European security, global energy markets and domestic politics. For Athens, the crisis has become a test of strategic readiness, economic resilience and political steadiness. It has also given Kyriakos Mitsotakis an opportunity to reassert control, define the national mood

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  5. From soup kitchens to school meals, demand for welfare in Athens is surging
    Photo by Harry van Versendaal

    Society

    The City of Athens has conducted the first ever survey of people using its welfare services... a range of welfare services for around 20,000 people a day. All this on a budget that has been cut... 1,400 people a day but the worrying finding from the survey is that 41 percent of those attending

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  6. Words will always hurt

    Agora

    or even worse, bare-faced lies. The crisis has given rise to all kinds of allegations... into the political arena, like hand grenades from a foxhole. The leftist party has repeatedly used... as battering rams in Greece’s daily political battle. On finding out that SYRIZA leader Alexis

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  7. Come back Cleisthenes, all is forgiven
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    Agora

    Cleisthenes has a lot to answer for. Yes, he laid the groundwork for Athenian democracy in 507 BC... for the mayorship in May’s elections. Kaklamanis has dismissed Kaminis achieving a balanced budget despite seeing... that they are still finding hard to shake almost five years later. It is almost impossible

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  8. Greeks living in smaller, older, poorer quality homes during crisis, BoG study shows
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    Society

    concerns old housing loans for which either the payment has been extended or for houses that have been... drop of 3.6 percent. In terms of the number of rooms per person, Greece has the lowest ranking at 1.2... in the number of homes being rented by owners to others for no fee. Another interesting finding relates

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  9. Coalition warms to option of Kouvelis as president but success not guaranteed
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    . As things stand, New Democracy has 125 MPs and PASOK 27 – a total of 152. DIMAR has 11 lawmakers.... This highlights what a challenging task the coalition faces in finding a candidate that would be a strong

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  10. Greece must tackle foreign bribery by Greek firms, OECD says

    Society

    anti-graft watchdog has said. Published on Friday by the OECD Working Group on Bribery, which... bribery allegations to prosecutors”. Greece now has a year to prepare an oral report to the working... target the export, shipping and SME sectors.” The report, which is based on the results of fact-finding

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