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Podcast - A decade in Greece: Looking back on the last 10 years
This episode of The Agora involves a departure from our normal format as we mark 10 years since MacroPolis was launched.
Contributor: Agora Podcast
Categories: Politics (375), Economy (319), Society (136), Greece (482)
A leader from nowhere, but to where?
Stefanos Kasselakis was elected the new leader of Greece’s main opposition party, SYRIZA, on Friday. Based on 75 pct of the 133,700 votes counted on Sunday night, he gained roughly 57 pct of the vote, against around 43 pct for his rival Efi Achtsioglou, a former labour minister.
Contributor: Nick Malkoutzis
Categories: Politics (375), Greece (482)
Podcast - Understanding Erdogan's foreign policy
The Agora takes a look at what is happening just across the Aegean from Greece, where Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is back for a third term and already prompting questions about whether he is shifting his foreign policy.
Contributor: Agora Podcast
Categories: Europe (280), Politics (375), Greece (482)
Podcast - Lost at sea: The Pylos shipwreck and its aftermath
On the night of June 14, a fishing boat called the Adriana, packed with hundreds of migrants who had paid traffickers to get them from Libya to Italy, sank in the deep waters of the Mediterranean, about 90 kilometers southwest of the town of Pylos in the Peloponnese.
Contributor: Agora Podcast
Categories: Europe (280), Politics (375), Society (136), Greece (482)
Where are the Conservatives?
Kyriakos Mitsotakis won an impressive election victory in June 2023 to lead Greece for a second term as Prime Minister. He heads the New Democracy party (ND). Mitsotakis and ND profile themselves as “conservatives.” The main opposition parties, SYRIZA and PASOK, may be seen as “further left” (progressive) and “center left” (labor party), respectively.
Contributor: Bob Traa
Categories: Politics (375), Economy (319), Greece (482)