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Dead-end protests

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There is no arguing that the right to protest is sacrosanct, even when the claims being made by the protesting parties may seem like complete nonsense. But...

Coming up short, again

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Once the shock wears off, we’ll brace ourselves for the usual blame game about the blatant failures in the railway system’s safety mechanism.

Incalculable measures

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Hundreds of draft laws costing an undisclosed amount of money have been ratified by lawmakers in these past four years and during previous administrations, with the final bill turning up in taxpayers’ notifications from the Independent Authority for Public Revenue.

Parliament and independent authorities

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The separation of powers into executive, legislature and judiciary is not for fun, nor was it done for reasons of sharing the workload. It is necessary so that these powers check each other and that none of them can threaten the rights of a single citizen.

The hushed conspiracy

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The ousted king discussed a plot “to assassinate Karamanlis and to overthrow the democratic regime through a military coup” in the period 1975-1979.

The Parthenon Marbles and democracy

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Democracy is not a game based on the good intentions of good people. It works with the competing interests of players, regardless of whether they are good or bad.

When the Ark ran aground

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Today’s revelations should not be viewed as a success for those who are making them, but as a reminder of their earlier failures.

Laws and sausages

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The government’s bill conserning wiretappins contains many positive proposals. But there are issues that must be debated.

Chaos and the metro

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Isn’t the metro being constructed part of public infrastructure, which the protesters, who don’t even live in Exarchia, are trying to derail?

‘Exemplary’ laws

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These attitudes cannot be eliminated and these behaviors are not discredited by making femicide a distinct crime in the criminal code, when homicide is already punished with life imprisonment.

The unbearable lightness of 2015

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We were given just one week to read and ponder hundreds of pages of dense economic text, whereas SYRIZA notoriously complains that its MPs need more than a week to read through fast-tracked legislation.

State secrets

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Why do companies have “privacy privileges” in their dealings with the state? Has the fashion of personal data been extended to legal entities (even under private law)?