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Wildfires and healthcare failings test government over summer season
PoliticsGreek Politicsout of control. The government has attempted to reassure the public, noting that fire service... to the firefighting effort; however, critics say the utility is neglecting its legal duty to maintain... when an elevator carrying heavy medical equipment plummeted several floors. Georgiadis posted
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Tsipras calls snap elections after heavy defeat that puts ND on course for clear majority
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Alexis Tsipras called snap elections on Sunday after SYRIZA suffered a heavy defeat in the European Parliament elections, making it virtually impossible for him to hold on until the end of the government’s term in September. New Democracy was on course late on Sunday to win
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Pandemic takes heavy toll on Greek workers, study finds
EconomyFeaturesof poverty. Losing a job comes at a particularly heavy price in Greece, since after two years
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OECD sees heavy hit from pandemic, gradual recovery in 2021 picking up pace in 2022
Economyto 13.5 percent in 2022. Exports will suffer a heavy hit this year, declining by almost a quarter
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Govt, experts sound alarm over risk of Covid-19 control being lost
PoliticsGreek PoliticsA steady rise in new Covid-19 cases has prompted the Greek government to intensify its warnings and tighten hygiene measures to bring infections back under control. Greece counted 121 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday, of which only 12 were registered at entry points into the country, while the rest
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The risk of losing control before help arrives
Agoraconspiracy theories, that the virus is like the flu or that vaccines are a novel way to control
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Opposition cries foul on government's tax priorities
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the recent extreme weather - to accelerate the erosion in ND’s popularity. Critics of ND’s tax priorities... cut to fuel duty, on the grounds that he considered the move regressive compared to reducing... and KINAL accused the government of hypocrisy for arguing that fuel duty cuts would benefit the wealth
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PM embarks on persuasion exercise as political veterans pick up on public discontent
PoliticsGreek Politicsmedia the government sees it as its duty to “listen to society and work persistently to solve people’s everyday problems”, adding, “this duty is all the weightier, as in an unstable global environment... to democracy posed by the erosion of trust. Former PM Kostas Karamanlis told an audience gathered
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ND tries to swerve fresh graft claims as EP scandals, phonetapping hang over budget debate
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe announcements, painting Mistotakis as a leader out of control and “in such a desperate freefall... are emerging from surveys of the erosion of public confidence in their ability to perform on this front too. Erosion of support A report by the SYRIZA-affiliated Nikos Poulantzas Institute highlights
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The nightmare of our choice
AgoraSpirtzis, to be lifted due to suspicions of breach of duty in connection to Contract 717, a partly EU-funded scheme to ensure there was a fully functioning remote traffic control and signalling system.... The rumour mill spun out of control, sucking in the government and the opposition as they batted
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