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Effort to unite PASOK and Potami seems to have hit a wall
PoliticsGreek Politicsreportedly wants the campaign to last three months. The Potami leader has also proposed that the two parties cease to exist as separate political entities once the new leader has been elected, while Gennimata has indicated that she wants there to be some kind of transition process leading to unification
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Mitsotakis pledges tax cuts, looks for party balance and broad appeal
PoliticsGreek PoliticsNew Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis has pledged to reduce the ENFIA property level by 30 percent in his first two years of governing, suggesting that he has identified tax cuts as the main tool... the ENFIA tax as the prime example given that it has been a very unpopular levy, particularly
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Government under pressure from TV permit and Attica Bank claims
PoliticsGreek Politicsexisting channels. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has already attracted negative comments... upholding the appeals. New Democracy Kyriakos Mitsotakis has also intervened in the issue, though... last year the government has held up the TV tender as a prime example of its self-professed attempt
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Government also finds itself at odds with Church of Greece
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe Greek government has found itself in an unexpected war of words with the Church of Greece over... Orthodoxy and its traditions. This has upset the Church of Greece, which is trying to block the reforms... to the military dictatorship between 1967 and 1974, an issue that has long been a bone of contention in Greek
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Greece worst-performer in EU 28 for social justice
Societyconsecutive year, a recent study by the Bertelsmann Foundation has found. In its Social Justice Index..., the report found that the gap between Greece and Bulgaria and Romania “has actually widened again, since..., while Greece is standing still”. The report notes that “the crisis has had a devastating effect
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Newsletter 104 - 27/01/2017
Monetary Fund has demanded. This was not confirmed in the Eurogroup statement or in the press conference... on February 6. Details leaked to the Greek media suggest that the Washington-based organisation has... long the 3.5 percent primary surplus will have to be maintained. And there has not been any agreement
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Greece and lenders trap themselves over labour reforms
Agorathat New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis has so far presented to Greek voters. Also on the fiscal... agreeing to it with the creditors. Greece has implemented a raft of liberalisation measures since... should follow a subsidiarity principle. In his comments to MEPs, Moscovici said that it has been
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Newsletter 111 - 17/03/2017
at home and dispel some of the uncertainty that has proved damaging for the Greek economy over... the personal nature of the view expressed by Skourletis and insisted, given the coalition has 153 out of 300 MPs, that it does not need the votes of other parties. There has been a discussion
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Foreign minister opens up about EU concerns
PoliticsForeign PolicySYRIZA has made no secret of its desire to change Greece’s approach towards the European Union when... that SYRIZA’s eurosceptic approach has been watered down. Kotzias appears more constructive during... of “crisis in handling crises.” He suggested that the EU has given in to the markets and is lacking
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Study finds contrasting trends in Greek health during crisis
SocietyThe impact of the economic crisis in Greece on health has been more nuanced than previous reports suggested, research conducted by a team of British and Greek scientists has found. The research... mortality have worsened during the crisis. There has also been a significant increase in mental illness
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