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Athens closes border, looks for EU support to ride out migration storm
PoliticsGreek Politics), which states that: “In the event of one or more Member States being confronted by an emergency... that migration is the one area where his government’s opinion poll ratings have been consistently... prime minister had to show that he is set on doing things differently. The closure of the border
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S&P keeps Greece at 'BB-' but revises outlook to stable on Covid-19 concerns
Economythe outlook from positive to stable. S&P had upgraded Greece by one notch last October, with a positive... and the current level of rating. According to S&P, Greece has one of the most advantageous debt..., which translates into a primary deficit of nearly 5 pct, the first one after four years
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On lockdown: The moments that will remain
Agorawith the restrictions. From one balcony, a family’s chatter signalled an effort to maintain normality or maybe..., so desperate where officials in Athens that none of them noticed that one of the countries... in this crisis is the same as swallowing everything that was written about Greece in the last one. During
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Economic relief eyed as Greece launches fourth round of lockdown easing
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat mean there can only be one customer for every 2 square metres and no more than six people in total... is also set to re-open primary and nursery schools from June 1, although there will be restrictions... of their tax pre-payment (one of the support measures offered by the centre-right administration
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Govt scurries for effective Covid-19 response as opposition finds more holes to pick
PoliticsGreek Politicsless than 48 hours after Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis informed Greeks that a month-long set.... Opposition pounces This is one of the issues which the opposition seized on to argue that the current... to announce any specific measures for churches and turning a blind eye to mass gatherings, such as the one
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BoG insists on need for bad bank, sees EU funds boosting recovery from 2021
Economyin the following year. The bank presents two alternative scenarios, a milder one that recession does not exceed 9 pct and a more severe one that sees a stronger and longer impact of the pandemic, where... assisted by a large securitisation of one systemic bank and are down by 48.5 billion euros since
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Newsletter 279 -13/11/2020
Kerameus, whose removal the opposition had been calling for in recent weeks. One of the highest-profile..., with women still holding fewer than one in four posts. However, it is the inclusion of controversial... discussion that the government had set aside the advice of some experts to cancel the religious
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Clashes add to political tension over division, police violence
PoliticsGreek Politicsinvolved in a recent protest linked to the hunger strike launched by terrorist Dimitris Koufodinas. One... as police clashed with some protestors. One policeman was dragged off his motorcycle and beaten. Along..., with one policeman shouting “Let’s go and kill them.” There were also reports of policemen attacking
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Piraeus announces transformation plan amid 2020 loss of 662 mln
EconomyBankingfrom Covid and one-off loan securitisation losses. The bank offset this news with the announcement... percent in Q3, while the coverage ratio dipped one percentage point to 44 percent. Pro forma... for the year came to 1.32 billion euros, with one-off initiatives and provisioning related to Covid
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Ex-PMs engage in public spat, highlighting contrasting approaches to Turkey
PoliticsForeign Policyelse put forward by Turkey could be negotiated or resolved in court. The precedent set by Helsinki... with the European Union. On the one hand, we solve the complicated issue of Cyprus’s induction... of “vital interests and concerns in the Aegean Sea” is one point that has always provoked conflicts between
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