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Tusk proposals over refugee quotas puts Athens on alert ahead of EU summit
PoliticsGreek Politicsyet to be relocated under the quota system agreed more than two years ago. Hungary and Slovakia... the overcrowding at hot spots. There were more than 4,000 arrivals each month in September..., less than 2,000 migrants had been sent back by Greek authorities. The Greek government seems
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Multiple crises fence in Greece
Agoratheir anger by choosing to raise their social security contributions rather than cut existing pensions... the European Union average but has risen from less than 12 percent since the beginning of the crisis due... has fallen to 3.6 million, which is less than the 2.6 million pensioners and 1.2 million unemployed
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Newsletter 114 - 07/04/2017
(1.82 billion) is owed by 83.8 percent of taxpayers (3.61 million) whose tax debts are less than... more than 300,000 euros each or 78.79 billion combined, corresponding to 84.8 percent of the total..., more than half (52.1 percent) between 2011 and 2015, while the remaining 10.9 percent relates to 2016
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Strike legislation, auctions present Athens with challenges in wake of SLA
EconomyProgrammeby first-degree unions, requiring them to have a quorum of more than 50 percent rather than the previous... rather than tag it onto legislation submitted by the Digital Policy Ministry, thus allowing a full.... These pieces of legislation aim to tackle most of more than 70 prior actions that remain
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Newsletter 175 -21/09/2018
eurozone peers in the political discussions it holds, rather than stating its case on the technocratic...) to 88.6 billion, 1.6 billion lower than the target of 90.2 billion. The current amount is equal... payment culture rather than a phenomenon brought about by capital controls. The Bank of Greece has
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SYRIZA and ANEL: Far from picture-perfect
Agorato an end now, having lasted longer than many observers expected, but its deep flaws were visible...-wing party surged from the fringes to gain 36.3 percent of the vote – more than Greece’s traditional... of thoroughness than serving any practical purpose. In between them, there was a small cup of coffee. That’s
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Newsletter 218 -06/09/2019
related to investment, growth and reforms rather than the touch subject of fiscal targets. In all... and operate a casino on the site. He also pledged to invest more than 1 billion euros. On the back... balance turned positive in August with 3,111 more hirings than firings, data from the Labour Ministry’s
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Mistaking tolerance for a free rein
Agorawillingness now than five years ago to confront the country’s problems rather than to push the blame elsewhere... investment and growing the economy. A poll by Rass at the time indicated that more than 60 percent... the country forward” rather than because of negative sentiment towards SYRIZA. If one considers
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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..., and of focussing almost exclusively on evacuations rather than getting the fires under control. By the end... unheeded. More than a decade later, the Goldammer report reiterated that call even more strongly
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Our tragedy: How could this happen?
AgoraThere is one question more than any other swirling around in our minds as we contemplate the devastation of this week’s train crash, which killed more than 50 people, mostly young Greeks: How could... these two trains had been moving towards each other for more than 10 minutes, without either driver
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