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Athens struggles with civil service evaluation, reduction of arrears
EconomyProgrammeThe Greek government has its hands full at the moment with the effort to complete as many prior... and the reduction of state arrears. Civil servants’ union ADEDY has thrown a spanner in the works... not evaluated. This year, it has created an online system for the performance review, aiming to by-pass
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New Democracy proceeds with renewal, puts centrists under pressure
PoliticsGreek PoliticsNew Democracy has taken a step towards the renewal that its leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis has been... boost to party coffers ahead of the next general elections. New Democracy has responded... has advocated since 2016 but to which the government has not responded. In an interview with To Vima
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Parties mark out battle lines for next elections
PoliticsGreek Politicscoalition, despite the difficulties it has faced and mistakes it has made, is the one that will oversee... that Tsipras has to play. It is certain to be one of the main pillars of the party’s election campaign... through a minefield” once the programme is over and it has to turn to the markets. He said Tsipras had
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Growth, not just of the economic variety
Agorathat Greece has seen since Q1 in 2008. This year’s Q1 also marked the fifth consecutive quarter... and what people feel. Naturally, following an economic depression that has lasted around a decade, a consistent and robust recovery over several years is needed before it feels that a corner has been turned
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Despite debt deal likely falling short, IMF to retain a role in Greece
EconomyProgrammeInternational Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde has vowed that her organisation... Greece can expect from the debt restructuring package. “It has already been agreed by the Eurogroup... sustainability in the longer term which has two important parts: first its adherence to the agreed
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Newsletter 168 -29/06/2018
the democratic legitimacy to sign the deal. The two departures mean that the coalition now has 152 MPs (145... that will lead to speculation about how much longer the coalition can survive. Kammenos has added... businessman Ivan Savvidis, with whom the coalition has had a close relationship until recently. The term
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Kammenos claims approval of name deal a make-or-break moment for coalition
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDefence Minister Panos Kammenos has prompted a new round of speculation about the coalition’s... has strongly criticised the compromise with Skopje. Kammenos’s calls for a super-majority were... for the name settlement to be adopted. Theodorakis has already made it clear that his party will back
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Moscovici hints at possibility of shelving 2019 pension cuts, riles opposition
EconomyProgrammeTsakalotos, Moscovici said that although Athens has to abide by its commitments, those pledges...-October. The government has made no secret of its desire to scrap the pension cuts in 2019, especially... by Tsakalotos in the past weeks, has been that the reductions to retirement pay are not a subject
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More changes needed to unlock private sector's potential, report says
EconomyFeaturesGreece has to take specific steps to unleash the potential of its business economy because... the bailouts. The authors believe, in this respect, that the crisis has not been used as an opportunity..., the nominal value added of the business economy in Greece has fallen by almost 38 percent in 2017
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Fire fallout casts doubt on Tsipras’s post-MoU strategy
PoliticsGreek Politicsadministration’s time in office. The disaster has undoubtedly tarnished the government’s image... badly the coalition has been damaged. New Democracy has been at the forefront of the effort to lay... have also asked for a wider judicial investigation than the one that has been launched, which
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