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ND defends economic pledges as Kammenos repeats walkout threat
PoliticsGreek Politicsstarted recovering from the crisis by easing the burden on the worst off and restoring the rights...) and maintain the limit on civil service hirings so that there have to be five departures for every... is cheaper and property tax revenues are lower, will experience financial problems. The other criticism
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New Parliament sworn in as Mitsotakis picks top civil servants, maintains status quo with church
PoliticsGreek Politicsgovernment’s attempts to change textbooks for religion classes, to move priests off the public... entirely from non-political backgrounds and many are being given jobs in the civil service... previous experience of the public sector. The government says that it will reduce the number
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Concern over ICU capacity, support for business generate pressure for ND
PoliticsGreek Politicsof elective surgery at public hospitals to be put off. Health Minister Vassilis Kikilias indicated... the latest measures will have the desired effect and Greeks will be able to experience a “more normal..., service and manufacturing carried out by Alco for the Athens Chamber of Commerce and Industry
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Mitsotakis sets off barrage of legislation to shake off introspection
PoliticsGreek PoliticsWith the opposition in disarray, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has fired off another round of reforms, hoping to regain forward momentum and put the internal scuffles in his own party behind him... workers by denying their claims about staff shortages and underfunding of health services, while he
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Greek leaders' contrasting visions all a blur
Agorathey lacked, while fending off the advances of the few. Mitsotakis pledges The vision presented... the VAT rate in the food service sector from 24 to 13 percent, a three-year VAT grace period and 40..., the limit on hirings has to be matched to the needs of the civil service, some parts of which
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Post-Covid era dawns on new landscape for bad debt in Greece
EconomyFeaturesup of commercial real estate. Sellers, including banks, servicers and distressed debt funds opting... not being serviced, peaking at 107 billion euros. In September 2016, almost half the loans... (56 pct of the total). With 28 pct of the volume of loans on their books not being serviced, however
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SYRIZA suffers new split as Kasselakis storms off to form own party
PoliticsGreek Politics. The two leading candidates will compete in a run-off vote a week later, on December 1....The turmoil that SYRIZA has experienced since its poor performance in the national elections of 2023 peaked over the weekend as former leader Stefanos Kasselakis quit the party to launch his own
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Train tragedy prompts urgent questions about railway safety
PoliticsGreek Politicsand raised questions about the possible mismanagement of the service. A passenger train crashed head... across Europe, only in Greece trains circulate based solely on experience.” Genidounias was also... that the opposition party has still not shaken off almost five years later. Opposition leader Alexis
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Samsung buys out Innoetics in latest boost for Greek tech sector
EconomyFeaturesspecialises in text-to-speech (TTS) technology. The company was launched in 2006 as a spin-off from... in recent years and in turn among the largest for a spin-off from a Greek academic and research..., education, telecoms and entertainment. Beginning with Greek, they expanded their service into 15
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The case of SYRIZA's fiscal performance
Agoraexperience with Varoufakis. On the expenditure side, SYRIZA 2 cut spending on goods and services... government of a different ideological bent to need some time to acquire experience in governing. Therefore.... For comparison, and to show that this experience is not unique to Greece, in Western Europe, after
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