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PM to oversee tweaks to tax bill as constitutional revision enters final round
PoliticsGreek Politicsthis one of the key themes of its attacks on the previous SYRIZA government, which it accused of burdening... uprising against the junta in 1973 passed off without any major incident amidst a heavy police presence and several days of interventions in the Exarchia neighbourhood of Athens and a long stand-off
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PM faces complex challenge as Turkey threatens free passage for refugees
PoliticsGreek Politics. In reality, there is little Mitsotakis can do apart from fend off inflows at Greece’s land and sea borders.... Political space One of the concerns is that the move to create a more right-wing, nativist party could.... Mitsotakis has so far attempted to close off this space by overhauling Greece’s asylum system with the aim
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PM increases coronavirus support package to 10 bln, while sounding dire warning to public
PoliticsGreek Politicslaid off since the beginning of March. Opposition parties have also been sounding the alarm about... is 2,000-3,000. One more patient succumbed to the virus, bringing the total to six. Tsiodras announced... and all year-end exams to be called off. The teachers claim that while the Education Ministry has
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Greece takes stock of measures to mitigate Covid-19 impact after Eurogroup reaches deal on latest batch
Economycreated in the coming months and, in the process, did not kill off completely the idea of some form... be avoided.” The immediate response from Athens, which had been one of nine eurozone capitals to publicly... off the shackles of the 3.5 pct of GDP primary surplus target, which was its fiscal commitment
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ND tweaking stimulus measures as SYRIZA flounders in Novartis backwash
PoliticsGreek Politicson the issue is that it is an attempt by New Democracy to kill off the opposition party by using.... Development Minister Adonis Georgiadis, one of the 10 political figures linked to the scandal, has also... that the opposition party is on the back foot. The pressure is now on Tsipras to shake off the serious
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Athens waits for EU recovery fund outcome as new Mati fire claims emerge
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe government plans to invest the RRF money (even though the package had not been signed off... uniformed officers if the report suggests that operation errors were also made. At one stage..., the previous government was not able to shake off the sense that, under its political leadership
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Athens hoping for de-escalation in Aegean as it seeks pension backpay solution
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThere was a slight de-escalation in Greece’s latest stand-off with Turkey in the Aegean over... that Berlin has played a crucial role in ensuring the stand-off does not escalate into something more... interlocutor and one, especially given that Germany also holds the EU presidency, that has
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Newsletter 272 -06/11/2020
adopted softer measures were paying off. The PM said he hoped the new lockdown, which is due to end... the first, the more adverse scenario of a GDP contraction of up to 10 percent is not off the table..., pointing out that one in three businesses in the industry are on the verge of bankruptcy after seeing
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Govt struggling to keep coronavirus threat at bay
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAn uptick in the number of Covid-19 cases and deaths after a brief lull looks likely to put off any... with off-road motorcycle riders during their outing and took photos with the group in which... riding one of the motorcycles. Apart from labelling this as unacceptable and insulting behaviour amid
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EU Commissioner's visit to islands highlights divisions over management of migrant centres
PoliticsGreek Politics. On Monday this week, EU Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson paid a one-day visit... for the migrants to be moved off the islands, the government has come up against strong local opposition from... at the press conference which rounded off their visit to the islands, Mitarachi firmly denied
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