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Newsletter 279 -13/11/2020
, with women still holding fewer than one in four posts. However, it is the inclusion of controversial... Mitsotakis said in a TV interview in December. At the time, the premier admitted that the lockdown.... Interior Minister Takis Thedorikakos was also left out of the new line-up to be replaced by Agriculture
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New asylum law comes up against old failings
Agorabe outside any apartment complex or office block in the Netherlands. Joyous shrieks are heard nearby... departures, rather than forced returns, which are seen as a last resort. In 2018, the Netherlands... for Migration (IOM). Also, fewer than 2,000 people have been returned under the terms of the EU-Turkey
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Omnibus bill prompts no more than rumblings of discontent from coalition MPs
PoliticsGreek Politicsinstalments between October and February, rather than the six that were originally planned to start... Democracy rather than SYRIZA. Overall, the displeasure expressed by SYRIZA lawmakers appears to have been... revealed he has plans to present his own TV show called “Is the Maximou (the prime minister’s office
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Government focuses on cost of living and farming as polls confirm strong lead
PoliticsGreek Politicsvote. The latest polling carried out by MRB on behalf of Open TV shows the conservatives well ahead... but have also supported protests by farmers and have built a strong base among conservative rural
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Budget surplus at 1.94 bln in 6-month, 1.51 bln above target on strong underspend
EconomyMacroeconomyby 1.51 billion, reflecting a strong underspend with primary expenditure coming in 1.16 billion lower than target coupled with higher than expected Public Investment Budget (PIB) balance by 272 million... period showed primary expenditure declined by 4 percent to 19.33 billion, still entailing a strong
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Comfortable lead allows Mitsotakis to play it safe as Tsipras makes last-ditch attempt
PoliticsGreek Politicsa year-long SYRIZA embargo on Skai TV, where he is due to appear on Tuesday night for a live interview... to power is not halted by a low turnout. In an interview on Skai TV on Monday, Mitsotakis also... to implement his programme if Greek voters give him a “strong mandate.” He warned them to avoid any
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Newsletter 60 - 29/01/2016
compared to the fiscal target for a deficit of 0.25 percent. Although this is more of a preliminary than... to more than 1.1 billion euros in absolute terms, could provide a cushion in the upcoming... than the institutions had forecasted a few months ago. A similar estimate for overall stable GDP
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Car sales still going strong in 2014; up by 33.7 pct in October
EconomyMacroeconomyin October from 7,730 in September and 6,850 in October 2013. Following another strong reading... in the fourth quarter of 2013. More than 80 percent of new licenses are for passenger cars, which... (+29.6 percent) in line with the total headline figure. All indications point to a strong double-digit
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Government tries to contain fallout from breach of voters' data
PoliticsGreek Politicsis that the social democrats have lost almost 3 points of support in less than two months, as measured by Marc... given the ongoing investigation into a potential data breach at the Interior Ministry. The MEP... Data Protection Authority, the Interior Ministry and a public prosecutor. It was also announced
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Newsletter 166 -15/06/2018
settle a diplomatic dispute that has dragged on for more than a quarter of a century. Under... A diplomatic standoff that’s extended into nearly three decades seemed closer than ever to a solution... with the Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos, thereby trying to give an institutional, rather than
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