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  1. Government determined to push through hospital reforms in pre-election legislative sprint
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    unions and associations have also voiced their solidarity with the strikers. Political implications

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  2. Controversial labour law set to usher in radical changes to employment practices
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    of probationary employment periods. There are also penalties for strikers who participate in picket lines

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  3. Coalition stresses positives, expects full support for multi-bill
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    against the increase in the minimum participation needed for first-level unions to call strikes.... Apart from the legislation relating to strikes, there is also some unease in the government ranks.... The government’s concern is that the measures relating to strikes and auctions are hurting its standing

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  4. Athens makes landmark foreign policy shift by sending arms to Ukraine
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    strikes in the city of Mariupol in the country’s south, according to the Foreign Ministry. The Greek political world unanimously condemned the Russian strikes. There were six other fatalities... unhappy that Russia denied on Saturday any involvement in the aerial strikes on the Sartana and Buhas

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  5. Approach to protests, policing poses a new quandary for government

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    repeatedly supported rallies and hunger strikes in the past and is clearly reluctant to take... will hope that the protests, as well as hunger strikes by 21 prisoners, will die down as a result

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  6. Greek tourism: Hopeful yet uncertain for 2016
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    EconomyFeatures

    unpopular economic policies being voted into effect by the government, the wave of strikes that has... percent. The same pattern of strikes and protests occurred in these years as well, although without

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  7. PMI improves by 2 pts in June to rise above 50-pt mark on higher production, employment

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    continued on their downward trend on the back of weak demand and strikes at Greece’s two main ports... with port strikes led input prices at higher levels. However, output prices remained stable after

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  8. Tsipras faces challenge in turning promise of China trip into reality
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    the resistance it is meeting from port workers, who have been holding rolling strikes over the last... the strikes in Piraeus and possible further difficulties in Idomeni, where refugees camped on railway

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  9. Strike legislation, auctions present Athens with challenges in wake of SLA
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    EconomyProgramme

    . Soon after submitting to Parliament on Monday an amendment introducing a new rule for strikes... and proper debate on the alteration to the rules on strikes. The government is expected to submit one

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  10. Newsletter 143

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    to a bumpy start on Monday as the amendment submitted to Parliament changing the law on strikes so... allowing a full and proper debate on the alteration to the rules on strikes. Apart from unions, some

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