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  1. Refugee influx pushes Tsipras towards crisis nexus

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    . This poses a different type of challenge for Tsipras as SYRIZA has traditionally had a very migrant-friendly... of refugees, as agreed by EU leaders in September. However, Greece will also be expected to detain migrants... to round up and detain migrants, will the prime minister face a backlash from his party and MPs? While most

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  2. Pressure on Greece to stem migrant flow puts strain on EU ties
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    of refugees and migrants to northern and central Europe. EU interior ministers urged Greece to have the hot... parts of the EU. At the same time, Greece is expected to step up efforts to detain migrants

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  3. Newsletter 114 - 07/04/2017

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    , with the overall figure for flexible type of work dropping to almost 51 percent from around 57 percent... last year. On the flipside, the respective figure for the state budget fell by 611 million to reach

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  4. Greek pensions laid bare
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    paid in March with a cost of 277 million euros, which corresponds to an average supplementary pension... assets do not have the capacity to support the retirement pay under any type of asset management

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  5. Newsletter 454 - 07/03/2025

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    for interfering with the scene of the crash. The motion was carried with 277 votes in favour, 12 against and 4... factors. It is precisely for this type of situation that, as we have previously highlighted, Greece's

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  6. First round of local elections leave Greek politics finely balanced
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    Democracy’s incumbent Vassilis Michaloliakos was beaten into second place by independent Yiannis Moralis... incumbent Giorgos Kaminis all the way. According to Interior Ministry projections Kaminis was expected

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  7. With eye on elections, Tsipras talks up public sector hirings
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    to be beaten in those ballots and it would risky to hold a national vote in the wake... with 4,500 next year. Meanwhile, the Interior Ministry estimates that there are roughly 35,000

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  8. New Democracy tries to win over voters with crackdown on bank charges, migration
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    severely brain-damaged after being beaten and sexually assaulted by a Pakistani migrant on the island... politician met with EU interior ministers on Tuesday in Copenhagen, where he pressed for faster

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  9. Samaras shoots, Samaras scores!
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    “Samaras rescues Greece” – it’s the headline the prime minister and many in his office would have cherished. But Giorgos Samaras, the striker without a club, has beaten premier Antonis to the title... can progress. It is the type of feeling that political parties pay advertising agencies millions

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  10. This is where the last few days have left Greece and lenders
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    in the next few weeks the volume and type of tax and pension measures Athens will have to adopt, as well as the counter-measures that will be triggered if future fiscal targets are beaten. Once

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