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Amid virus gloom, govt lines up support for catering and targets swift upturn
PoliticsGreek Politicstwo options. One is for a reopening ahead of Orthodox Easter, i.e. towards the end of April... businesses are facing huge debts and there has not yet been any discussion about writing off some of what... that it proposed last year a 700-million-euro scheme to provide liquidity to the sector, which is one
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PM removes under-fire ministers from posts in late-summer reshuffle
PoliticsGreek Politicsan immediate battle on their hands as the government is involved in a stand-off with hospital unions and staff... at the Health Ministry, Kikilias – a former basketball player with a celebrity wife – was one of the most... post, and one where the previous minister was often criticised, rather than leave him out
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Evia flooding reopens government's summer wounds
PoliticsGreek Politics, but officials say that there has been insufficient time since August for this initiative to start paying off...-friendly media in the meantime. The flooding in Evia was the main item on the front page of only one... to rig the process so that a businessman with pro-SYRIZA leanings would win one of the licences
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From the National Energy and Climate Plan to COP26: What has Greek climate policy learned?
Societyhikes currently working their way through the system have all, in one way or another, tested... East Med pipeline proposal, which has spanned several governments. As one recent critique outlined... was also one of 10 EU member-states threatening to block the EU’s “sustainable finance taxonomy
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Newsletter 323 - 14/01/2022
. As of Wednesday, 70.7 pct of the general population had received at least one dose and 38.3 pct had... in the pricing policies of power utility PPC and a partial write-off for private debts incurred during... initial expectations. Greece was in deflation for about one year until May this year, when the CPI
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The Parable of the Populists and the Contemplatives
Agora, with its new high volume machine, uses as one of the inputs a nonrenewable resource—something that we... is beautiful, the big car is luxurious, and the standard of living is high, but there is one drawback... and residues from the disposals and garbage that has not been properly treated, and for which no-one has ever
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Implementation snags hang over ambitious post-Covid recovery plans
PoliticsGreek Politicsa billion euros of spending on employment and roughly one billion euros of private investments.... There are signs, however, that some of the projects are having trouble getting off the drawing... previously denied that there are any delays. Greece was one of the first EU member states to submit a plan
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Political impact of spying revelations unclear, as drip-feed of information continues
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the political spectrum, and what it may mean in terms of support for PASOK. One potential outcome that now appears to be firmly off the table as a result of the spying revelations is a ND-PASOK alliance... practice of pushbacks at sea, accusing one prominent activist of insulting Greece. The Evros
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Unveiling of relief package imminent as electoral law speculation is revived
PoliticsGreek Politicspackage, one it hopes will shift attention away from the phone-tapping scandal, begins in earnest... on Saturday will help restore its popularity among some of the voters that have been put off by the phone... one that would make it easier for the winning party to gain a majority. Under the system passed by ND
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Despite PMI rise of 0.9 pts in Sept, manufacturing stays in contraction for third month
EconomyMacroeconomythat the decline was only fractional and eased from the one seen in August. The overall.... There was a strong fall in new orders, similar to the one seen in August, with the rate of contraction above... orders declining for one more month, though at modest pace. Operating costs continued climbing due
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