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Draft 2022 budget represents first attempt to restore post-pandemic fiscal order
EconomyMacroeconomy, at 10 pct of GDP. Within the same post-programme monitoring framework, the primary balance next year
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Some tasks, risks left as Greece takes another step to exit from post-bailout surveillance
EconomyProgrammeGreece has one more step to take before it completes its post-programme surveillance after the institutions published the report that accompanies the latest review, the thirteenth since the summer of 2018 when Greece agreed to a number of commitments that are due to be delivered by this summer
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Implementation snags hang over ambitious post-Covid recovery plans
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreece’s national plan to allocate EU Recovery & Resilience funds is moving apace at the planning stage, but appears to be stumbling at implementation. With the post-covid stimulus package emerging as more key to economic recovery than ever in light of record inflation and uncertainty over
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Complexities of post-election cooperation laid bare
PoliticsGreek Politicsinterview highlights the complexities of any post-election cooperation if the elections fail to yield
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Risk of poverty drops to 26.3 pct, reflecting post-Covid rebound
SocietyThe latest poverty data from ELSTAT covering 2022, using 2021 as reference year, was published on Monday. It captures the post-pandemic economic recovery, recording a drop of 2 percentage points for the population at risk of poverty and social exclusion to 26.3 percent. This came after a rise
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Rise of small parties creates pre- and post-election complications
PoliticsGreek Politicsbut also suggesting that post-election politics could be more turbulent than the centre-right leader
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OPEKEPE, Predator and Ankara tension set tone for post-Easter politics
PoliticsGreek PoliticsA compressed, post‑Easter political week opens in Athens with the government facing simultaneous pressure on two domestic fronts - the OPEKEPE case files and the revived surveillance affair - while also navigating a sharp rhetorical clash with Ankara and preparing for Emmanuel Macron’s visit later
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Minister pledges swift resolution as public anger over rail crash mounts
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the crash, the minister said that although human error was probably a factor, the appropriate safety... criticised for rushing to blame human error in his first response to the crash. Gerapetritis... which relieved the network operator and its private contractors of the obligation to deliver
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PM forced to adjust line over deadly train crash amid public anger
PoliticsGreek Politicson lifestyle issues such as book recommendations. However, this Sunday’s post carried a much more sombre... not want to, and we must not hide behind the human error.” In his televised address last Wednesday, hours after the fatal accident, Mitsotakis had suggested that the crash was mainly down to human error
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Newsletter 418 - 29/03/2024
that human error was solely to blame for the accident that killed 57 people last year. However... that led to their botched execution. He also stood by the government's claim that human error... since 2019 and more than 18 pct in the post-pandemic era. The ministry also points out that Greece
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