Political Consensus

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Editorial Ta Nea: A mature response to the demographic problem

A country that is economically stagnant and with weak social cohesion cannot have demographic growth, and it ends up with an aged population. Dynamic labour, housing, and investment policies are needed.

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Editorial Ta Nea: Consensus, measures needed to tackle demographic problem

It is necessary to have an in-depth understanding of the reasons that lead the youth to leave the country and that keep young couples from having children.

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Editorial Ta Nea: The urgent need for national unity

it is the duty of the entire political leadership of the country to back a united policy in fending off Turkish provocations and revisionism steadfastly.

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Editorial Ta Nea: Consensus on managing the pandemic, even at the last minute

Nobody is asking SYRIZA not to criticise the government. One is asking it to do the job assigned to it well, to push the government to speed up the vaccine rollout, and to unreservedly support vaccination.

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Editorial Ta Nea: Reforms

It is not the role of the opposition to constantly agree with the government. Yet, every time it battles against the essence of a necessary, long-delayed reform, nobody wins, not even the party that momentarily benefits.

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Editorial: The exception and the rule

It became glaringly obvious that the much-touted cooperation between political parties during the first wave of the pandemic in spring was merely one brief shining moment.

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Editorial To Vima:Rising to the occasion

The level of debate in Parliament yesterday was a far cry from what one used to see in the tumultuous years of Greece’s bailout memorandum and prior to that.

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Crisis brings government, Syriza closer as Tsipras backs lockdown, seeks mass hiring of tenured doctors

“We are not at the beginning of the end. We are perhaps at the end of the beginning,” the PM said in underlining the need for a continuation of the lockdown.

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Editorial Ta Nea: Action

The much-touted normalcy to which Greek society was supposed to return has been postponed indefinitely or at least for enough time to deal a new, severe blow to the economy and the labour market.

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Editorial Ta Nea: Consensus

A national consensus means that the government will avoid startling the opposition with its moves and for that reason the opposition will support the government.

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Editorial Ta Nea: Salt

Due to the critical nature of current circumstances both within the government and on the political scene more generally composure is exceptionally necessary.

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Editorial To Vima: A step toward progress

Politicians during the crisis were unable to do the self-evident – to have everyone table their proposals for the economy to transcend the impasse and find a path of recovery.