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Minister discounts lockdowns, vaccine mandate extension amid Covid surge
PoliticsGreek PoliticsHealth Minister Thanos Plevris has once again denied that the government plans to impose horizontal restrictions or extend the vaccination mandate to combat the surge in cases of Covid-19. The denials come as case numbers and hospitalisations in northern Greece have started to resemble
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Govt hails success of vaccine mandate amid continuing surge in 'hard' indices of pandemic
PoliticsGreek PoliticsOn the day when fines kicked in for unvaccinated citizens over the age of 60, the government has been hailing the success of the mandate in increasing vaccination rates. Continuing high death rates and record hospitalisations from Covid-19, however, make it unlikely that restrictions will be lifted
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Honey, I shrunk the Greeks vol. 2
Agora. That type of solution at the time would have favoured Greece as a member of the IMF but would have... political and social dynamics. When the cracks in the program design were exposed as early... claims, you end up with a “subordination risk” where private money is seen as being inferior
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Athens moves quickly to scrap pension cuts as Eurogroup inches forward on euro reform
EconomyProgrammeof the EU budget. Subject to a mandate to be given by the Euro Summit, work could proceed on the design... a High-level working group with a mandate to work on next steps. The High-level group should report... insurance scheme. We did not reach a common view on the need and design of such a function
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ESM report highlights programme weaknesses, outlines improvements for future bailouts
EconomyProgramme-making and draw lessons that will turn improve the way it fulfils its mandate. The evaluation accepts... aspects. Specifically, it finds that the ESM lacked a framework to design strategic objectives, which... must have a high-level guidance on programme design with overarching principles of design, review
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First challenges for tourism plan, as public relaxes approach to virus
PoliticsGreek Politics-risk by the EU’s Aviation Safety Agency EASA, and would be under constant review. Theoharis stressed... and safety criteria”, adding, “the EASA list is our guide”. Currently, all arriving international... high-risk by EASA, and allows its citizens to holiday abroad. The US, along with large parts of Italy
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Greece and the euro: The flight of Icarus
Agorato create the first bailout of its type to prevent a disorderly Greek default. Bigger economies than Greece... ($310 billion) from its bailout is going towards repaying existing debt means the amount Greece owes
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Deposit inflows of 1.07 bln in June, highest in first half of 2016
EconomyMacroeconomyof 223 million. The breakdown by depositor type displayed non-financial corporations displayed inflows... deposits includes gg and other euro area residents’ inflows of 428 and 310 million respectively
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Honey, I shrunk the Greeks
Agorawas the only option. Why he thought this type of blackmail was acceptable between partners, who... that the country ever had to pay for debt servicing, 15 billion euros. Even as part of the design of the first... the issue of Greece’s debt burden. Greek society has paid a heavy price for the flaws in the design
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Newsletter 36 - 24/07/2015
mandate in the autumn. There are several reasons to believe that this is more than idle speculation... to a split in the party, Tsipras could see this is the best moment not only to get a new mandate from... own design flaws. When Athens missed targets, it was because Greeks were not supportive
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