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PM adds minimum wage hike to pre-election promises, with hints of more to come
PoliticsGreek Politicsbe reallocated to represent expat voters. Evros retraction German magazine Der Spiegel’s decision
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Kasselakis offers more hints of a positive narrative for SYRIZA's post-Tsipras era
PoliticsGreek Politicswas wrong because it disadvantaged expat Greeks, suggesting that he would change the law to only apply
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Investigations into voter email leak continue despite denials from government
PoliticsGreek PoliticsProtection Authority, while several expat Greeks have filed separate lawsuits against the Greek state
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Post-election blamestorming or Why Harris lost and the Democrats should nominate Oprah
AgoraAs an American expat in Europe, it is a familiar quadrennial exercise to be called upon to explain to friends, colleagues, and even random strangers in shops why America elected who they did as president. The reasons this year are both complex and simple. Complex, because there was a general sense
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Migrant boat tragedy forces temporary halt on election campaigning
PoliticsGreek Politicson Wednesday. The sinking of a fishing boat believed to be carrying migrants from Libya to Italy has claimed 79 lives while 104 have been rescued, however estimates of the total number on board range between
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Fires cast growing shadow as new shipwreck probe is announced
PoliticsGreek Politicsof migrants travelling from Libya to Italy drowning in the Mediterranean, off the coast of Greece... are estimated to have lost their lives in the shipwreck. Another probe, this time initiated from
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New Democracy tries to win over voters with crackdown on bank charges, migration
PoliticsGreek Politicsapproach on migration in response to increased arrivals from Libya also comes at a time when New... of measures will be relatively painless for banks, costing an estimated 20-30 million euros, while
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Greek Q4 GDP down 2.6 pct, shrinks 3.7 pct in 2013 - better than troika estimates
EconomyMacroeconomy: The Greek government and the troika estimate a GDP rebound by 0.6 percent with BoG and Fitch Ratings... decelerating from the 3 percent drop posted in the third quarter, according to flash estimates... similar trend (low double-digit drop) over the past three quarters. ELSTAT’s latest flash estimates
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Early tourism estimates point to increased airline pre-bookings and lower cruise passengers in 2017
EconomyMacroeconomymore than those in 2016. This estimate is due to be revised by the end of January and could...). The preliminary estimates for airline seat planning point to an increase of 19 percent for Greek regional
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Stability Programme revises growth down to 2.5 pct as investment estimates prove too rosy
EconomyMacroeconomyby 1.6 pct, another ambitious estimate of investments of 14.4 pct, exports up by 4.9 pct and imports... that the forecast was ambitious as most of their estimates ranged between 2 and 2.5 pct. Most
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