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Newsletter 214 -12/07/2019
Mitsotakis has picked his new cabinet, held a first meeting with his ministers and decided the first... foresee the scrapping of the university asylum provisions. has a team of three deputy minister... Vesyropoulos, who’s the deputy in charge of tax policy and the public wealth, has been an MP for ND since
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Adult skills in Greece lacking, indicates OECD survey
Societyby the Paris-based organisation has found. Only about one in 20 adults in Greece attain the highest levels...-born, native-language adults in Greece. As part of its ongoing work to measure and improve adult skills around the world, the OECD has tested the skills of more than 50,000 16 to 65 year olds in Chile
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Greece tax wedge rises two places to 13th highest among OECD countries, report finds
EconomyFeaturesThe Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has published a bulletin... are subject to. Describing the tax wedge, which the OECD calculates as the measure of the tax... at the net average tax rate, which is defined as a measure of the net tax on labour income paid directly
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Govt faces fallout from hospital vaccine mandate, as school opening poses fresh challenges
PoliticsGreek Politicsleadership to suspend the measure as a “corrective gesture of goodwill”, in order to allow dialogue... while their suspension notices were being processed the full effects of the measure and the reactions... government, which has sought to emphasise the readiness of border defences as the crisis in Afghanistan has
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Newsletter 481 - 24/10/2025
protests at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier has stirred controversy within Greece’s ruling party... rights and pointed out that the monument has hosted protests in the past—including some backed by New Democracy itself. The backlash has not been limited to the opposition. Defence Minister Nikos
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First TV debate does little to fire up election contest
PoliticsGreek Politicstaking part answer questions from journalists on pre-agreed topics, left little room... deterioration in Tsipras’s relationship with the economist, which has also involved Varoufakis firing... education, which has prompted a substantial outcry from schools and parents. Attention will now shift
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A third of young Greeks would consider emigrating to escape economic problems
Societyfell significantly from 2014 to 2015, a report from by Europe’s biggest debt collector has found... situation in Greece, that figure was 32 percent in 2015. The change means that Greece has gone from... late, an answer given by 79 percent of those having paid late, was the inability to pay,” the report
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Mistrust in news reporting persists amid chaotic media landscape
Societyin various countries, has shown persistently high levels of mistrust in news sources among Greek... percent of respondents gave this answer. In keeping with other surveys of the same nature, Greeks... in the Greek online news market, but progress has been slow, amounting so far to a register for state
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Athens broadly satisfied with EU Council approach on Turkey
PoliticsForeign Policythat the tension [in the East Med] has decreased and delaying taking concrete decisions to implement... islands while their asylum request has been rejected. Pandemic dominates Turkey, however, was not on top... will be the predominant one across Europe and the answer to this is to speed up vaccinations.”
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SYRIZA maintains pressure over Covid treatment, media handouts
PoliticsGreek Politicstesting. The SYRIZA MP also called on the government to answer claims made by hospital workers’ unions... the allegations from unionists, the issue has come to the fore recently due to claims about certain...’s messages. SYRIZA has pointed to Documento’s exclusion, as well as the inclusion of seemingly
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