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KINAL edges towards more central role in political developments
PoliticsGreek Politicsof elections in the next 18 months is starting to concentrate people’s minds. New Democracy saw its... of MEP Androulakis as its new leader in December – the centre-left party saw its ratings increase... the polls suggest, the chances of the leftist winning the next elections are extremely slim
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Court ruling on pension cuts could create new problem in talks, fiscal plans
EconomyProgrammeAs the government struggles to find common ground with lenders over this year’s fiscal targets, a legal issue concerning pension cuts threatens to derail spending plans. Deputy Parliamentary Speaker Alexis Mitropoulos (SYRIZA) claimed in an interview wi...
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Athens encounters problem in effort to foster Greek-Albanian talks
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe Greek Foreign Ministry has issued a new statement in response to Albanian Foreign Minister Ditmir Bushati who claimed in a radio interview on Monday that the two countries are discussing the Cham community’s claims to property in Greece. The Chams b...
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BoG provides insight into Greece’s housing affordability problem
EconomyFeaturesIn its Governor’s Report for 2025, the Bank of Greece dedicated a section to the factors shaping house prices in Greece and the capacity of households to finance the acquisition of a home. Housing affordability is defined as the ability of households to...
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Newsletter 392 - 08/09/2023
weather being generated by the climate crisis, but that some chronic problems in the public administration, including the country’s civil protection mechanism, need to be addressed. The problem... of ELSAT each month, rising in Q2 by only 0.1 pct YoY, while import growth also saw a modest rise
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Newsletter 410 - 02/02/2024
PoliticsProtesting farmers open new front for governmentThe government saw a new front open..., the government made only minor interventions that aggravated the problem and left the short-term rental... have voiced frustration about the government being out of touch with farmers’ problems and have
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Athens sees Cyprus talks progressing despite lack of deal in Geneva
PoliticsForeign Policyin the 1990s during the withdrawal of Soviet troops from East Germany, which saw West German troops... to avoid a solution to the Cyprus problem. He also warned that a solution without Turkey should... problems could be tackled by the police and the justice system. He proposed the creation of a revamped
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Greek media often sensationalised coverage of refugee crisis, study argues
Societyby the Greek media, some of whom saw it as the manufacturing of a situation where Turkey was handed... no longer viewed as poor, miserable people and a transit problem, but rather as being... of refugees will cause problems to public health and the local economy, for instance tourism
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Greece among hardest hit in Covid-related drop for European arrivals
EconomyFeaturesand that this continues to be a problem as the second wave hits. “The disparity of approaches adopted... at the sharpest rate. For Italian arrivals, Montenegro saw the largest decline, with Greece in fifth place... that the current crisis was an opportunity to reset tourism policies and address problems such as over-tourism
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The unbearably slow vaccination process in Croatia
Agoraenough to house a modest 9,750 doses of Pfizer/ BioNTech Comirnaty vaccine. Still, many saw... at the borders? Communication failure This brings us to another big problem that has accompanied... again. Moreover, if we sum up all these problems, the recent announcement by Mr. Plenković
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