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Newsletter 217 -02/08/2019
be the last one-off scheme of its kind but promised that New Democracy would create a “permanent...Tax cuts adopted, two bills to go ND secures majority for draft law, aims to round off legislative... said that the other option the government had examined was to sell off the utility’s hydroelectric
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Hoping to deflect criticism, ND bolsters stimulus package ahead of new lockdown
PoliticsGreek Politicsfurloughed workers and the unemployed. Of that, 675 million euros will be used for a one-off stipend of 800 euros each for employees who have been forced to stay off work. Meanwhile, 308 million will go... the retail sector leads to 5 billion euros being shaved off Greece’s GDP each month. Tsipras
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Govt prepares new round of economic relief as Covid remains a threat
PoliticsGreek Politicspersistence has thrown off New Democracy’s initial planning for 2021. The government had hoped that the retail sector would open from today, but that decision was put off on Friday due to the high number..., or proof of antibodies. “We continue to expect the 2021 season to be around half the 2019 one
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Opposition parties step up pressure after back-and-forth over election date
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis may have taken the possibility of snap elections off the table... International Fair in September, when he will try to set out an alternative policy framework to the one... scepticism was misguided and that even SYRIZA’s own secret polling was substantially off the mark
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Mitsotakis underlines support for MEP Beleri as field for PASOK leadership vote widens
PoliticsGreek Politicsshe founded. At 65, she is one of the oldest candidates competing for the PASOK leadership... eventually won, beating off a challenge from Evangelos Venizelos. It is worth noting that more than... round three years ago, falling to less than 208,000 in the run-off vote in which Androulakis beat
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Controversies around president pick cause government headaches
PoliticsGreek Politicsto die in a conflagration which followed it. The suggestion that one of the carriages involved... that while Mitsotakis’s focus on the presidential pick may have paid off with his lawmakers, it has..., while 44 pct have a negative view and 18 pct are neutral. These ratings are not far off those
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PM prepares to finalise relief package as talk of electoral tweak gathers pace
PoliticsGreek Politicsto arrest a slide in living standards and head off the demographic challenges that threaten future... percent, plus one extra seat for every 0.5 percent up to a total of 50 seats at 40 percent) never... the prime minister can continue to repel suggestions that he himself has previously deemed off
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Newsletter 64 - 26/02/2016
, further infuriating Athens. Clearly, Greece is not in a position to close off its sea border with Turkey... Friday, Moody’s upgraded Greek banks’ rating by one notch to Ca with a stable outlook on the back... of the Flies requires little explanation. Its meaning is summed up in one line of the unnerving
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With review completion in sight, which way next for Greece?
Agorahas been concluded. Broadly speaking, there are two paths: The relatively smooth one and the one... at a relative minimum. Apart from one testosterone-fuelled threat by Defence Minister Panos... having to tick off dozens of “prior actions.” However, there has never been a straightforward
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PM offers vision of stronger post-pandemic Greece, as ND reaps approval in polls
PoliticsGreek Politics”. Rounding off on one of his favourite themes, the prime minister said he hoped that the crisis would... Ministry spokesman Sotiris Tsiodras reported 31 new confirmed cases, bringing the total to 2,145, and one... by an Interview poll. One in four respondents in the Interview poll said they were in favour of the lockdown
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