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  1. Greece a gateway and scapegoat in EU's refugee crisis
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    Agora

    migrants, not refugees, from travelling to other countries. One of the reasons the EU wants Frontex... one. Greece returned 39 people to Pakistan but authorities in Islamabad rejected 26 of them, claiming... of bureaucratic obstacle is one of the main reasons that only several thousand people are repatriated from

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  2. Vote on same-sex civil unions reveals common ground and divisions
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    and is seen as one of the centrepieces of the leftist party’s efforts to introduce more socially progressive... the SYRIZA side of the government that it would support the law. This is one of the reasons.... The absence of a permanent leader is one reason for this lack of cohesion from the conservatives

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  3. Newsletter 58 - 15/01/2016

    Newsletters

    fiscal strategy for 2016–19, which includes additional measures yielding one percent of GDP (0.75.... This represents a departure from one of his recent predecessors, Antonis Samaras, who sought to cultivate... three ways one could read this comment: as the product of barefaced cheek on the minister’s part

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  4. A year on, Tsipras's SYRIZA in need of morale boost
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    in Davos to give perhaps one of the most important speeches of his career on Sunday. Tsipras will address an audience of SYRIZA members at an indoor stadium in Athens on Sunday to mark the one-year... victory last January, the event is titled: “One year of the left, one year of struggle.” What under

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  5. Newsletter 61 - 05/02/2016

    Newsletters

    strike saw one of the strongest turnouts in recent years, uniting a wide range of professionals... measures now that will last in order to make it sustainable. The general strike on Thursday saw one... and farmers on one side and the institutions on the other side – are still far from reaching an agreement

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  6. Benefits and banana skins for Greece in EU-Turkey refugee deal
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    · A commitment to take in one Syrian refugee directly from Turkey for each one returned from Greece's Aegean... seekers will take part and there is no quota set by Brussels to keep to. This could be one... to open now as it fears it may lose one of the points of leverage available to convince Turkey to back

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  7. The diversions of the past

    Agora

    and embarking on a destructive and divisive seven-year reign of terror and backwardness, one would have thought... that Greeks are capable of leaving the disunion of the past behind them. One would have thought... far-left, ideology. Of course, one could argue that Greek urban guerrilla groups

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  8. Eurobank turns profitable in Q1 for first time since Q3 2011, with net profit of 60 mln
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    EconomyBanking

    of 94.4 million in the previous one. This was the first profitable quarter for the bank after seventeen quarters since Q3 2011. It is worth noting that stripping out a one-off gain of 57 million posted... income of 63.5 million in Q1, from -7.5 million in the previous quarter, mainly related to a one

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  9. Vast majority of Athens homeless ended up on streets during crisis

    Society

    a fifth lived with their families. One in ten are former prisoners. Of the non-Greek nationals.... One fifth of the total homeless (21.7 percent) said they had lost their home in the last year... to be restricted, one 51-year-old male interviewee told the researchers. Seven in ten are rough sleepers

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  10. Crisis management policy: the sad lesson of the Greek case
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    Agora

    assets with further foreign investment. One interesting idea tabled early on in the bailout period... potential by about three percent – on average of one percent a year – in the three year period from... percent per annum could be too optimistic. And growth rates of around one percent or less is all too

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