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Newsletter 350 - 09/09/2022
. Parliament launched its inquiry into the affair and the first few days of the panel were marked... result in each party represented on the panel submitting its own report. Also, given the governing... to the 50-seat bonus for the winning party, which applied in the 2019 elections, rather than linking
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Greek-Turkish rift puts strain on Cyprus reunification talks
PoliticsForeign Policythat Athens and Ankara are not likely to engage in a constructive dialogue over security and guarantees... on Cyprus, Espen Barth Eide has already begun to engage in talks with Athens and Ankara in an effort to lay... tensions in Greek–Turkey relations, the Turkish-Cypriot and Greek-Cypriot sides have been finding
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Rise of fringe party complicates election arithmetic
PoliticsGreek Politicson the panel refused a request by the head of the Hellenic Authority for Communication Security... to appear before the committee since the correct process is for the panel to call experts to speak... consternation among New Democracy officials as it would impact the percentage of votes that the winning party
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Opposition eyes continuation of wiretapping probe by other means
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe case, New Democracy, which held the majority on the panel, delivered its own report on the inquiry’s... to the PEGA panel. Having seen that the surveillance scandal has had minimal impact on the government... on a fact-finding mission. Unlike the inquiry held by the Greek Parliament, journalists who were victims
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Bid to by-pass parliamentary inquiry stokes Tempe controversy
PoliticsGreek Politicsbased on which a decision is taken if a panel of 13 judges should be brought together to try the case... Democracy MPs on the panel made it clear that they would be voting in favour of Triantopoulos’s... resigned over this issue. The only finding in the survey that New Democracy can take a semblance
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Newsletter 279 - 05/03/2021
closures dropped during the pandemic Only one sector saw an increase in the number of closures in 2020... and motorcycles” which saw 8,082 closures. Mostly this was due to it being one of the most populous sectors... of company closures in the sector actually dropped 18.9 percent. In fact, only one sector saw
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Survey reveals working lives, job-finding trends of young Greeks
Societysaw it through to completion. This tended to be people who have completed tertiary education and Greek... surveyed said that they found no type of support helpful. When it comes to finding a job, the most
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Greece saw first annual deflation in almost half a century in 2013
EconomyMacroeconomyThe drop in Greece’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) decelerated to 1.7 percent in December after peaking with a 2.9 percent decline in November, according to the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT). On a monthly basis, the CPI rose 0.9 percent for the f...
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April saw first rise in Greek banks' Eurosystem funding this year
EconomyMacroeconomyGreek banks’ Eurosystem funding increased by 1.27 billion in April, showing a monthly rise for the first time since December 2013, according to the Bank of Greece's (BoG) monthly financial statement. The headline figure stood at 61.96 billion at the end...
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Most Greeks saw income fall over last year, limiting purchasing power
SocietyThe results of a survey by the Labour Institute (INE) of the General Confederation of Greek Workers (GSEE), which was published on July 17, highlighted how salary earners’ purchasing power has been limited. The survey, conducted in cooperation with Alco...
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