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Govt and opposition stake out positions on pandemic impact measures
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAs Greece gradually lifts its emergency measures, the main political parties are using... to cover 100 percent of employment costs for businesses which will remain closed under emergency... billion euros to businesses in emergency support and 3.5 billion in deferred taxes and contributions
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Wage ruling gives gov't immediate fiscal headache, political one may come later
PoliticsGreek Politicsand emergency services should not have had their salaries slashed in December 2012 as part of the coalition’s... for the government. According to reports, judges ruled that members of the armed forces and emergency... in the armed forces and emergency services will be restored as they had only reduced them under
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Report exposes fractured and incomplete response to refugees
Societyis still defined as an emergency response. As such, the Greek system would be unable to cope... unaccompanied minor shelters, with the IOM stepping in to keep some of them open through emergency.... This had risen to 109 by the end of April. The PHILOS project (Comprehensive Emergency Health Response
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Is Greece facing a new migration crisis?
Societyin arrivals by announcing a series of emergency measures. They include accelerating the transfer... of the migration crisis, Greece’s reception structures remain in perpetual “emergency mode... government and opposition, that have been playing out over recent years. Beyond the adoption of emergency
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Politicians have commissioned, and largely ignored, multiple reports on wildfires
Societybeen framed almost exclusively in terms of operational civil emergency response. The ND reforms Despite... Civil Protection Law (4662) brought together a range of emergency response functions under... of emergency funding as the fire season approached. Meanwhile, the forestry service, which prior to 1998
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Newsletter 36 - 24/07/2015
front, on Wednesday the ECB again raised its emergency liquidity assistance (ELA) funding for Greek...-euro jump in emergency liquidity assistance (ELA), which reached 86.77 billion – the highest since... of agreeing a new bailout. Similarly, if there is to be a split within SYRIZA, prompting the emergence
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ND presents united front at anniversary event, but factional tensions lurk
PoliticsGreek Politicscontract under pandemic emergency powers to a polling company run by a close associate. The paper linked... members. Georgiadis responded to defend the emergency procurement process, while disputing... ignited fears of the emergence of new political entities which could draw support away from ND’s
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SYRIZA's left wing hoping to prevent Tsipras from concluding bailout talks
PoliticsGreek Politicscommittee, which is due to hold an emergency meeting on Thursday. Tsipras had proposed on Monday that an emergency congress be held to allow SYRIZA to settle its differences over whether the government... with the creditors. 2) An emergency congress would mean new delegates being elected rather than the ones who
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Newsletter 242 -06/03/2020
the move. The European Commission approved 700 million euros of emergency funds to help Greece cope... the European civil defence mechanism, including medical personnel and emergency supplies. Hosting... for public dissent from the governments’ actions. With the situation presented as a national emergency
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Will the Covid-19 crisis undermine the EU Green Deal? A view from Europe's periphery
Agorahave equally called for post-emergency recovery packages (fiscal and monetary expansion to prop up our... for a transformative green recovery strategy in the EU, after the emergency stage of the epidemic is over... serious “green recovery package” (i.e. post-emergency green fiscal expansion) aligned with the EU Green
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