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VIDEO - How could Greece put the EU recovery fund to best use?
AgoraIn the latest episode of the video discussions organised by Agenda Publica and MacroPolis as part of the Future is Blue newsletter, MacroPolis editor Nick Malkoutzis speaks Olivier Vardakoulias, an economist with WWF Greece, and Marcus Bensasson, a fina...
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PM announces extensive measures to build on recovery, counter inflation and put govt on track
PoliticsGreek PoliticsProjecting the message that “Greece is changing,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis set out a range of measures at the Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF) on Saturday that he hopes will allow his government to turn a new page and build new momentum o...
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Tsipras tries to put PM on spot by pushing for 800-euro min wage
PoliticsGreek PoliticsSYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras has gone on the offensive against the government, calling for the minimum wage to be raised to 800 euros and for the consumption tax on fuel to be lowered as counter-measures to confront the wave of inflation troubling Greek...
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ND, SYRIZA put squeeze on KINAL as centre-left party's poll rise continues
PoliticsGreek PoliticsFollowing its recent impressive rise in the opinion polls, centre-left KINAL finds itself at the centre of political machinations as both New Democracy and SYRIZA attempt to impede its advance, which has created doubt about when the next elections will ...
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Series of failures provide opposition with platform to put pressure on PM
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAlthough it is still largely absorbed by its leadership contest, which is not due to conclude until early September, recent events have prompted SYRIZA to take a more aggressive stance regarding Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s premiership. The left-wing party was...
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State braces for losses as bank divestment plan is put into action
EconomyBankingThe Hellenic Financial Stability Fund (HFSF) formally launched last week the process of divesting its small participation in the share capital of Eurobank. This set in motion HFSF's plan to dispose of its holdings in the four systemic banks, bringing to...
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Athens not put out by Turkey-Egypt rapprochement, but watching closely
PoliticsForeign PolicyAthens is assessing the results of the historic meeting between Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Wednesday, in Ankara. The two leaders discussed ways to further repair the long-frozen ties between the...
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Greece takes first round against Covid-19 but fight continues
Agorathe 1:1 ratio for the health service, and to continue the hiring programme put in motion... being put under lockdown. In the ensuing couple of weeks hospitals in Lombardy – a far better.... Greece’s lockdown was put in place gradually between March 9 (two days prior to the first recorded death
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Govt brings energy saving to forefront as cost of support set to skyrocket
PoliticsGreek Politics. Finance Minister Christos Staïkouras put the total amount earmarked for this year at 10 billion euros... interruption of natural gas supplies from Russia. Greece is supplied via the TurkStream pipeline...The energy price spike prompted by the indefinite shutdown of Russian gas supplies to northern
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What Dijsselbloem didn't say
Agoracomment was misunderstood and put his comments down to “Dutch directness” and a strict Calvinistic culture..., meeting the bailout conditions put a severe strain on the economies of the countries concerned. They put their public finances in order, they embarked on structural reforms and endured falls
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