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  1. Is Greece on track to decouple from fossil gas?
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    of the previous year alone -rather than the five-year average- would be used as a baseline to calculate the 15.... Compared to the eight months of the previous year, it reduced its consumption by 31.8%, more than... throughout the year. Thus, 2023 closed with a total domestic consumption of 50.9 TWh, 10.1% lower than

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  2. From soup kitchens to school meals, demand for welfare in Athens is surging
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    obtaining free meals said they had no income at all, while 11 percent said they earn less than 320 euros... for their children to receive free meals at schools run by the municipality increased more than four times... health, while 54 percent said they were living on the street because of financial problems. Perhaps

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  3. As EU presidency approaches, poll suggests Greeks are most isolated within Union

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    , should highlight in such an emphatic way Greeks’ growing disenchantment with the EU less than two... eurozone member states is weaker than in Greece. The survey also finds interesting differences in the way that EU citizens perceive the problems facing their countries – even for countries that share

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  4. Spain is not Greece: Part two
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    found. More than half of the Spanish youngsters are unemployed, just behind Greece’s rate. And, more... colleague, Yanis Varoufakis, and displayed in the negotiations a more hawkish stance than Germany’s Wolfgang... shouldn’t bring his domestic problems here. That’s a wrong approach. The internal problems should

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  5. Tsipras to meet Merkel amid search for political backing
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    with EU leaders rather than a technocratic one with eurozone finance ministers. The coalition... than is currently the case. Reports in Greece suggest that Tsipras will also seek face to face... the ceiling of 15 billion euros so it can overcome its pressing liquidity problems. This would help

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  6. SYRIZA's long, slow march
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    accepted that our influence on the long-term dynamics is going to be slower than expected,” he told..., will be loath to accept anything more drastic than what it has proposed. At last week’s Eurogroup, though... the country’s economic problems. Effrontery, though, is not a tradable commodity

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  7. Waste management remains Greece's biggest environmental challenge, says EU
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    Along with Cyprus, Greece recycled just short than a fifth of municipal rate in 2014, jointly the third lowest rate in the EU and less than half the EU average, a new environmental implementation.... Waste management is the area where Greece faces the biggest problems, with illegal landfilling

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  8. Newsletter 136 - 20/10/2017

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    out that Greece’s neighbour is Turkey, which can be “unpredictable” and “aggressive” rather than... in real terms last year rather than the 0 percent estimate released in March. In nominal terms... know many people are looking to invest in Greece. A lot of the problems are behind it.” Apart from

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  9. Human Rights Commissioner calls for improvements to battered healthcare system
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    than half between 2009 to 2015. Treatment services, diagnostics, and disease prevention programmes... and by more than half in 2011-2012. Further measures led to the closure of specialised clinics... by multidisciplinary teams to monitor, treat and prevent health problems. However, the Commissioner

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  10. Newsletter 292 - 09/04/2021

    Newsletters

    fared better than most European countries, an outcome which he credited to the decision to impose... of next year. This year’s estimate is marginally lower than the one forecast in the previous WEO... to crisis Buffeted by the recent resurgence of Covid-related problems and growing criticism of its

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