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  1. Search for solutions, not scapegoats in EU's refugee crisis
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    at the hot spots. Despite its economic difficulties, Greece has also agreed to pay its share (25.1... Greece’s European partners also want it to serve as a prison warden. Even before 2015, Greece, along... refugees and migrants arrive on its islands to prevent them simply moving on en masse to other

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  2. Newsletter 60 - 29/01/2016

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    it to serve as a prison warden as well. Even before 2015, Greece, along with Italy, were the main gateways... islands to prevent them simply moving on en masse to other parts of Europe. On this subject, a lot... that one of the ideas mentioned during an EU interior ministers’ meeting this week was for a large refugee

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  3. Learning the lessons of Greece's toxic decade
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    the negotiations with the lenders and by selecting Prokopis Pavlopoulos, the interior minister during 2004-2009... seemed like the end of the MoU era. In the meantime, SYRIZA had parted ways with the radical side

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  4. ND in danger of being blown off course by farming subsidy scandal

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    to plead the case of a local olive farmer who was in danger of missing out on a legitimate subsidy

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  5. Flashpoints fuel contest for centrist voters
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    activist Zak Kostopoulos, where four police officers were acquitted of contributing to his death... Georgiadis and Interior Minister Makis Voridis transferred to New Democracy in 2012. The comments

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  6. Government commits to uniformed personnel pay rises amid clamour for higher incomes

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    Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has been forced to commit to pay rises for all uniformed..., coast guard and fire service to be awarded more pay following the recent announcement of wage... that more pay increases would be announced in due course but “under the right conditions and at the right

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  7. Amid risk of 2015 re-run, Greece searching for deal with lenders
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    , particularly with respect to supplementary retirement pay, and that a proposal by the Greek side to raise... that the negotiators parted on bad terms, with European Stability Mechanism managing director Klaus Regling

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  8. Stournaras in firing line for arguing Greeks can pay more taxes
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    and indirect taxes should increase, in fact what he meant was that Greeks as a whole do not pay enough tax. He... had already been done. His original comment was interpreted as a suggestion that Greeks should pay... Antonis Samaras described 2013 as the worst year on record in terms of the taxes Greeks had to pay

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  9. ‘We’re dying to pay our taxes’
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    , in Thessaloniki, Greece’s second city, to pay the first of six instalments of Greece’s new property tax... to pay our taxes even if it’s the last thing we do,” he said. This month marks the anniversary... of a pensioner while queuing to pay another austerity-related tax could be seen as a metaphor for how

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  10. Coalition adopts court ruling that restores judges' pay, others poised to follow

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    The coalition passed an amendment through Parliament this week which means it will have to pay... pay scale means that Supreme Court judges will be paid 4,134 euros per month gross. At the other end.... On top of that, the coalition has to pay them an extra 69.6 million euros per year. The amendment adopts

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