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SYRIZA puts spotlight on wildfire impact to stress govt faults
PoliticsGreek Politicspopularity, although not as much as might have been expected. SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras visited northern... that Mitsotakis has not visited the area yet, even though he would risk receiving an unfriendly reception
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A busy year of diplomacy for Athens, but Greek-Turkish ties stagnate
PoliticsForeign PolicyGreece was active on the diplomatic front throughout 2021: High-level agreements were signed, while Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias visited several countries... with Greece. Mitsotakis visited Sofia in mid-December to meet his new Bulgarian counterpart
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Row over independent probe into surveillance affair threatens to boil over
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe latter visited the offices of a telecommunications provider to ask for information regarding... their authority. Tsipras, who visited Dogiakos in early December to urge a swifter investigation
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PM inspects flood damage hoping to rescue stricken government
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis visited flood-stricken central Greece on Friday to survey the damage done by Storm Daniel but also to shore up the government’s defences against criticism about its.... SYRIZA frontrunner Efi Achtsioglou visited the port city of Volos on Friday, where many residents have
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Athens and Berlin have reasons to take a closer look at each other
AgoraMitsotakis visited Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in Rome. His next stop was Berlin on Tuesday, where..., Olaf Scholz, was in office for almost two years before Mitsotakis visited him in Berlin for official
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Government fears losing momentum to new Tempe backlash as GSI tensions rise
PoliticsGreek Politicsbe carried out to establish the exact cause of death. Thousands of people have visited Ruci’s camp..., Konstantopoulou visited Ruci to offer her public support for his cause and said she would hold
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Athens grapples with awkward reduction of tax-free threshold
EconomyProgramme. As a result, the tax credit was cut by up to 200 euros and ranged between 1,900 euros (for a single) up... October revealed that by lowering the tax credit from 1,900 to 1,600 euros (entailing a tax-free threshold... in the tax credit results in incremental revenues of 200 million euros. The World Bank noted
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A snapshot of the Greek economy
Agorathe country’s sovereign credit rating to B3 from B1 and Fitch’s confirming its own rating at BB... and passenger tickets for air transport. Bank Credit and Deposits: In January 2019, the annual growth rate of total credit extended to the economy stood at -1.4 percent from -1.3 percent in the previous month
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More changes needed to unlock private sector's potential, report says
EconomyFeaturesto the structure of the Greek economy during the crisis and that few sectors have experience growth. “Large firms.... It highlights that the Greek business economy experienced a 38 percent decline in gross added value since 2008.... Value added of medium-sized and large firms also experienced a sharp decline, but by 2017 was back
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Lower expenditure helps Greece post 707 mln primary budget surplus in first half of 2014
Economyin June from deficit of 340 to 520 million euros in the preceding three months. Similarly, the budget deficit narrowed to 429 million in June from 844 million in May and 698 million in April. The actual... lower levels (less than 600 million for each item) indicating a strong fiscal performance in June
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