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  1. Ministers dispatched to deal with disgruntled MPs as cost of living complaints dog ND
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    colleagues that the government has been doing its best to manage inflation and improve earnings, focussing... rebuffed the minister’s invitation to express his concerns to him privately. Vlachos has become a thorn... Hatzidakis, which Vlachos co-signed with 10 of his colleagues. The MP has since pursued the finance

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  2. Role of inflation in US elections gives government food for thought

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    Ministry bill, with the emphasis on the dozen tax relief measures it contains. The bill indeed has... as the cost of living has caused strain in the household budgets of large parts of the American public... pct in the national elections a year earlier. New Democracy has also been consistently performing

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  3. Tsipras advertises launch of rent subsidy scheme in latest voter-friendly initiative
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    Pavlos Polakis behind it on Wednesday by unveiling a rent subsidy scheme, another measure SYRIZA... the minister was granted by Attica Bank. However, the Athens Prosecutors’ Office has reportedly launched... in every five families that rent their homes. The government has budgeted 304 million euros

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  4. Racism in Greece is getting worse and authorities are to blame, damning report suggests

    Society

    There has been a significant rise in racist attacks since the 2012 general elections, when Golden Dawn entered Parliament, and it has been exacerbated by authorities’ failure to react, the Greek... and at least four deaths. Neofascist Golden Dawn has been linked to 71 of the incidents and police

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  5. Structural problems and dramatic drop in funding harm mental health care in Greece
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    Society

    austerity, a report published last month has found. The country came 28th in The Economist... expenditure has been one of the many areas that have seen significant cuts. Dedicated funding... that little progress has been made since 1984, when a reform programme was launched to switch from

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  6. Tsipras steps in amid concern deal with lenders slipping away
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    . The frequency of contact between the two leaders has intensified in the past few weeks – an indication... by the institutions than Finance Ministry general secretary for fiscal policy Nikos Theocharakis, who has played... 11. The state’s increasingly desperate liquidity position means that Greece has little wiggle room

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  7. Greek coalition braces for internal debate over agreement with lenders
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    islands. The coalition partner has indicated it would consider such a measure a possible reason.... Mitropoulos in particular has provided almost a daily running commentary on the government’s negotiations via... will point to the fact that the government has avoided scrapping the benefit for low-income pensioners (EKAS

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  8. Coalition in last-minute legislative rush, extends helping hand to MPs
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    that the coalition has chosen to delay the submission of the draft legislation in order to not heap.... The government has adopted this tactic in the past, preferring not to put SYRIZA and Independent Greeks (ANEL... affected by the measure. They will each receive a one-off payment of between 500 and 2,100 euros

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  9. Tsipras encounters obstacle in efforts to secure church deal
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    of the head of the Church of Greece, who reportedly has a good relationship with Tsipras. It also came... and remove the priests from the payroll, a move which it has the authority to carry out. This may... in a very difficult position within the church and Tsipras in danger of losing someone he has

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  10. ND targets NGOs in latest bid to bring migration under control
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    as well, but has not provided tangible evidence to back up the theory. During Tuesday’s debate... of provocation has been forthcoming. Petsas said the protests, which led to police on Lesvos using tear gas... proposal to install a floating barrier in the Aegean sea as a pilot measure aimed at deterring human

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