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Greek pro-drachma party to meet
Athens :: Greece | 5 days ago
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Greek pro-drachma party Plan B to hold first meeting "Plan B" wants to see a return of the old Greek currency, the drachma A new political party supporting Greece's exit from the euro is due to hold its first meeting. "Plan B" only has about 400
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Brewhaha in Greece as MPs ejected for "Heil Hitler" cries
Date :: Japan | 6 days ago
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An MP for the ultra-right Golden Dawn party, Panayiotis Iliopoulos, was ejected from a session in Parliament on Friday after the deputy used derogatory language to revile fellow MPs and cries of "Heil Hitler" were heard in the House. Originally
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Walker's World: Spring in Europe
Berlin :: Germany | 10 days ago
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Like the skies clearing after a storm, some small but hopeful patches of blue and even the occasional ray of sunshine are breaking through the prolonged gloom over Europe's economic prospects. The question is whether these hopeful signs last until
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Greece invokes emergency powers to block teachers' strike
Athens :: Greece | 11 days ago
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Greece has threatened high school teachers with arrest if they go ahead with a nationwide strike that would disrupt university entrance exams that start this week, the official government gazette said. It is the third time this year that Prime
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Furthering the fightback
London :: United Kingdom | 29 days ago
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The immediate trigger, let's not forget, was the banks' exposure to sub-prime lending in the US, where large mortgages were lent to indebted low-income families who were never in a position to repay. In turn, the politics of austerity has meant that
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Change of leadership in Greek Communist Party
Athens :: Greece | 1 month ago
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Greece's Communist Party has elected a longstanding activist as its new general secretary. The 57-year-old Dimitris Koutsounbas, who in the past served as head of the party's newspaper and as international relations head, had long been rumored as a
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Young and good looking: the saviours of Europe's Left
Copenhagen :: Denmark | 1 month ago
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The appeal of the party and Tsipras himself goes far beyond the usual suspects of old communists, social movement activists and anarchists. Syriza, with the new acronym Unified Social Front (EKM) added to its name, is a much broader democratic left
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We can't wish a new left party into existence
Athens :: Greece | 2 months ago
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Michael Calderbank offers an alternative view of Ken Loach's appeal to discuss a new party In a week when Labour chose not to oppose the coercion of the unemployed into unpaid work for profitable companies, it's only to be expected that activists
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Greek Politician Sentenced To Life Imprisonment For Embezzlement: Is Athens Really Cracking Down On Corruption?
Thessaloníki :: Greece | 3 months ago
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Reuters Vassilis Papageorgopoulos, former mayor of Thessaloniki, Greece's largest second city, is escorted by policemen as he leaves a courthouse in Thessaloniki February 27, 2013. The Ekathimerini newspaper of Athens reported that Vassilis
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Greek anti-bailout leftists regain opinion poll lead
Athens :: Greece | 3 months ago
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Greece's leftist opposition party has regained a narrow lead over the ruling conservatives, an opinion poll published on Saturday said. The survey by Pulse for the 6 Imeres newspaper also showed Greeks divided over their government's tough stance
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