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Assessing the OTE deal at face value
A strategic partner with enormous experience in the telecommunications field is buying a share in OTE, Greece's biggest telecom operator. The company wants to invest in Greece, one assumes, in order to make money. It's up to us (and the terms of the expected deal) to also make some profit out of this. |
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COMMENTARY |
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Back to the future
I received a text message the other day from a close aide of George Papandreou, PASOK's leader. «Papandreou is finally changing everything. The old guard is out of the Political Council,» it said. «I've heard that one before,» I thought, but then reproached myself for being too cynical and nonchalant.
The morning after found me staring at the names of the newly elected national council members. The list included ex-unionist Christos Polyzogopoulos, former deputy Stefanos Tzoumakas, and PASOK's former organizational secretary Lefteris Katsikarelis. |
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OPINION |
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The challenge to Erdogan’s AKP
The Turkish military establishment is trying to regain lost ground after a string of defeats by the moderate Islamist Justice and Development Party (AKP) via a request by state prosecutors to close down the ruling party and to ban a number of its officials, including the prime minister and president, from politics. The excuse this time around is the headscarf ban. To a Westerner, the prosecutor's proposal seems preposterous but EU-aspirant Turkey has a history of military and judiciary coups. |
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