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  1. New waste strategy dials down recycling targets, promises to address landfill problems
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    reducing the portion of waste sent to landfill to 26 percent by 2020, were rejected as unachievable... ending up in landfill, there are at least 53 recorded illegal waste sites currently operating across...-running dispute over a new landfill site in Corfu has resulted in garbage accumulating in the streets

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  2. Podcast - Long live the revolution: The legacy of Greece's 1821 war of independence

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    Greece is celebrating the 200th anniversary of its war of independence, which began in 1821 and allowed Greeks to free themselves of Ottoman rule and oppression, and form their own nation-state. To mark this occasion, we spoke to Sakis Gekas, the Hellenic Heritage Foundation (HHF) Chair of Modern

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  3. ND highlights housing initiatives as Athens waste row rekindles hopes of progressive alliance
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    in a dispute with the conservative governor of Attica over landfill charges, in a move echoing the tactical... them to put properties back on the market. Properties returning to the long-term rental market... sector initiatives. Athens waste row A heated dispute over landfill charges in Athens has reawakened

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  4. Manufacturing PMI up to 59.3 pts amid ongoing concerns over supplier delays, input prices
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    . Nevertheless, supplier delays pushed costs up again and input prices also increased significantly... historically elevated amid seemingly relentless supplier shortages and delays to material deliveries

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  5. Helped by trading gains, Eurobank posts 305 mln in Q1 profits
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    EconomyBanking

    Eurobank posted an adjusted net income of 305 million euros in the first quarter of 2022 (Q1), compared to a profit of 72 million euros last year. Core pre-provision income (PPI) rose by 10.4 percent year-on-year (YoY) in Q1 to 240.4 million euros, with 62.1 million euros of loan loss provisions

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  6. Turkey's Aegean moratorium eases tension as Berlin tries to foster talks
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    in an interview with CNN Turk. Kalin reportedly said that Turkey’s President has told his aides to “put... by Spain’s Foreign Minister, Arancha Gonzalez Laya, who visited Ankara just before her official trip to Athens. Following her talks with Turkey’s political leadership, Gonzalez Laya said on Monday

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  7. Greece stands on fault line between vicious and virtuous cycles for 2016

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    previous ones meant that any troika financing was put immediately on hold. This left Alexis Tsipras’s... institutions in the quartet consider a sustainable gross debt servicing burden. What will put pressure... with that of the left. Even the prospect of debt relief will not be put on the table before the successful

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  8. Bulgaria's Covid-19 vaccination fiasco: excessive risks, mediocre results
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    was it then that Bulgaria decided to ignore prudent practice and put all of its eggs in one basket... of the price tag the Bulgarian government had put on its citizens. These are the savings from choosing... with Macropolis (Greece), Lupiga (Croatia), Sbunker (Kosovo), Ne Davimo Beograd (Serbia), Analiziraj

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  9. Greece's EU journey: Solidarity hard to come by, but two-way approach also lacking
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    with North Macedonia, while the government is also swayed by populist media that always put..., in partnership with Macropolis, Lupiga (Croatia), Sbunker (Kosovo), Ne Davimo Beograd (Serbia), Analiziraj... with its neighboring countries. Additionally, Greece did not send any medical supplies, like masks, even

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  10. The Parable of the Populists and the Contemplatives
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    can take from the earth but we cannot put it back or increase or make a replacement for it as we used... the residues in a terrain behind the factory, or buries them in the ground in a landfill, and some

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