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Opposition renews attack on government over hospital capacity
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s announcement of fines for unvaccinated over-60s has further... the age of 60 who has not booked a vaccination appointment by mid-January. The prime minister argued... vaccination compulsory. Opposition SYRIZA has not been able to come back with a convincing response
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Androulakis receives strong mandate for renewal at KINAL
PoliticsGreek PoliticsIn a development that could cause reverberations across Greek politics, MEP Nikos Androulakis has... in the first ballot and around 156,000 in the second. The 42-year-old politician from Crete has... dignity.” In truth, Androulakis has revealed little about his political beliefs during the campaign
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Govt treads carefully on economic relief measures, hoping normality is near
PoliticsGreek Politicsto the fiscal limitations since Greece has to return to producing primary surpluses from next year... million euros. Together with the measures already announced to subsidise energy bills, the government has... being considered, such as a temporary reduction in VAT, has been nipped in the bud by Finance Minister
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Athens homing in on non-permanent seat at UNSC
PoliticsForeign Policyparticipated, Greece has decided to present its candidacy as a non-permanent member of the UNSC... crises occur. Athens has already begun its diplomatic campaign, even though it is also busy watching... officially at the organisation. Ankara has been sending official letters to the UN regarding the issue
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Mitsotakis tries to dig way out of snowstorm fallout
PoliticsGreek Politicsparties and parts of the media has focussed on how car and rail passengers were trapped in and around... power for more than 24 hours in some cases. However, this has also raised questions about the state... in the narrative put together by Mitsotakis and his team – namely that New Democracy has not been able
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Mitsotakis unveils property tax reduction, searches for pre-election narrative
PoliticsGreek Politics. The Finance Ministry has been working on the details of the revised ENFIA over the past few months... review. Finance Minister Christos Staikouras has been stressing the need to keep public finances under... suggest that although ND retains a big lead over SYRIZA, its popularity has been waning and it has been
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Traditional sectors carry burden of job creation as unemployment levels fall
EconomyMacroeconomyon the recovery path it has been following since July 2013, when monthly unemployment rate peaked at 28 pct... covering the two-year period. Although it has some methodological differences due to not being seasonally... then, and up to Q3 2021, employment has increased to 4.12 million, a rise of 638,400 more jobs. Busy
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Newsletter 329 - 25/02/2022
regulator has also prepared domestic electricity producers for the possibility of switching generators... households will be taken next month, once the Finance Ministry has the data for tax revenues in February... that the government has been advertising over the last two years, which have been implemented thanks
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Parties pick from energy policy menu as EU response opens up more options
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe past week has seen the range of potential policies for tackling high energy prices expand... the coming weeks and months, perhaps leading up to the next election. The New Democracy government has... as high prices persist. It has been clear for some time, however, that PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis and his
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Parties re-work strategies as clearer picture emerges for election run-up
PoliticsGreek PoliticsKyriakos Mitsotakis has dropped any thoughts of holding snap elections in the coming months, partly... of the local media has interpreted this comment as a laying down of the gauntlet to third party KINAL, whose new leader Nikos Androulakis has so far not indicated any desire to establish a working
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