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Deadly floods blight Athens as progress sought in third review
PoliticsGreek Politicsare set to vote in favour of the handouts despite protesting against Tsipras’s announcement earlier... reports that a list has been agreed between Athens and the European Commission. The one prior action
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spending will stay stable at 6.75 billion. The pace of privatisations is set to intensify with completed... to appear in the Greek economy this year, though they are fragile. Tourism, one of the main pillars
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Tussle over arms deal sets tone for polarised politics
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat another Greek, John Sfakianakis, was the one who advised the Greek ambassador in Riyadh... of others in SYRIZA who are uncomfortable with the Saudi pact, the tone has been set for the political
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Greece prepares for Erdogan visit, limits extent of Sharia law
PoliticsForeign Policy. One of these is the Muslim minority in Western Thrace. Sharia Law Tsipras announced on November 16 a bill that will set limits to the jurisdiction of Sharia Law in the Western Thrace
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EU disunity on refugees and its poisonous effects
Agoraa small number of refugees or not but whether there is a set of rules that everyone must follow... and the feeling in some member states that they are subject to different treatment. One of the mantras
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Athens gears up for name talks as coalition and opposition try to define their positions
PoliticsForeign Policyposition and I insist on that, and I hope that the solution will be one that will safeguard national... of a composite name with a geographical qualifier set out in 2008. He added though that “the devil is hidden
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Political confrontation as Novartis case transferred to Parliament
PoliticsGreek Politics, modern type of patriotism, not one that has to do with “the Panama Papers, offshore, bribery.... Parliament now has to decide whether to set up a preliminary inquiry, whose task it will be to decide
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Athens takes cautious approach to Turkish words and actions
PoliticsGreek Politicsthis week is not likely to be a one-off occurrence. Turkish military operations in Syria’s Afrin... on Friday, on whether to set up a preliminary judicial inquiry to examine the claims that 10 politicians
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Self-employed paying less for social security contributions, Labour ministry reports
EconomyFeaturesto the latest available for January 2018. EFKA was set up by the government in early 2017 to consolidate nine separate social security funds into one entity as part of labour market reforms. The data...-employed workers and reports of such workers deregistering from the status of “self-employed” en masse
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Focus of discussion for lenders moves to debt relief, post-MoU framework
EconomyProgrammeand argued that argued that this would allow the government to “set its own reform imperatives... for Fiscal Policy Franciscos Koutentakis highlighted on one of the panels at the forum that the strategy
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