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ND shifts into campaign mode as urban planning scandal deepens
PoliticsGreek Politicscorruption scandal inside urban planning departments. The juxtaposition is striking: the governing... for households. Urban planning scandal While ND accelerates its pre‑election preparations, the government is simultaneously grappling with a deepening corruption scandal inside urban planning departments - one
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Urban planning scandal deepens as Tsipras unveils five cost of living pledges
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe rapid expansion of an urban planning corruption scandal, which has already produced arrests... for the urban planning scandal, a network of public servants, engineers and private intermediaries allegedly operated a network inside urban planning departments in the Athens suburbs of Kifissia
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Back from the brink: What next for Greece's property market?
EconomyFeaturesin urban areas. The figure for 2007 was 4.6 percent, for 2006 12.2 percent and for 2005 10.9 percent... news was that US investment fund Fortress was in talks to take on a 90 million euro bank loan from
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Athens "Great Walk" plan scaled back amid criticism
PoliticsGreek Politicsdrastically following a slew of criticism from the public and some urban planners. The “Great Walk” which was launched by Mayor Kostas Bakoyannis in May as a major urban intervention initially enjoyed... a bitter taste in the mouth of Athenians for any future exercise of this type. If recent history is any
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Newsletter 64 - 26/02/2016
to the limit Now that the refugee crisis has started to move to urban areas, the potential for political.... Similar incidents have taken place in other European countries but this type of symbolism has been largely alien to Greece until now. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras described it as a Ku Klux Klan-type
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Volunteers try to fill void left by retreating Greek state
![Photo by Myrto Papadopoulos [www.myrtopapadopoulos.com]](resources/toolip/img-thumb/2013/10/12/indignant_myrto_1000_1210-medium.jpg "Photo by Myrto Papadopoulos [www.myrtopapadopoulos.com]")
Societyand its ever-decreasing role in a number of areas, such as social welfare, healthcare and urban.... This type of volunteerism is a relatively new concept in Greece, which has a poor record of this kind... in Greece due to cases of corruption, while some forms of activism, such as urban intervention, have
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Tsipras aiming to guide SYRIZA towards new territory in opposition
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat SYRIZA, or the Progressive Alliance, will move further away from the multi-faceted type... of interest as he will be in charge of zoning and urban development issues at the ministry. Economou’s response was that as a professor of urban planning he has acted as a consultant on a lot
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Household expenditure rises by 2.5 pct in 2019
Societypercent. The survey also illustrated the different patterns of expenditure by household type. Households... living in urban areas spend on average 1,567.44 euros per month. This translates to an average of 24 percent higher spending for households living in urban areas. Regarding inequality, the survey
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The refugee crisis and the beast within
Agoraplace in other European countries but this type of symbolism has been largely alien to Greece until now. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras described it as a Ku Klux Klan-type action, intentionally... border. But it has now started to move to urban areas, where the potential for political and social
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Eurobank first to tackle NPL reduction via APS
EconomyBankingthe bids submitted by Pimco and doValue on behalf of Fortress for 80 percent of Eurobank’s licensed... on the website euro2day.gr on Tuesday afternoon, the doValue-Fortress bid was considered a stronger bid... Fortress earlier in November. The bank had previously been in exclusive negotiations with PIMCO until
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