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  1. Producer prices record back-to-back decline in Apr as energy falls by 24.4 pct YoY
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    by refined oil products that contracted by 31.1 percent, mining of metal ores down by 10.6 percent and metal products dropped by 2.1 percent. In the broader categories in the overall market, energy products

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  2. Tsipras berates govt over treatment of pensioners

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    , among others. According to New Democracy’s calculations, up to 676,735 retirees earning less than 600...-called “golden boy” executives rather than the average citizen. Tsipras argued that under his watch.... However, the introduction of almost 500 private-sector contractors does not seem to have contributed

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  3. Coalition's moves on public sector hirings under scrutiny
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    Minister Pavlos Polakis said that the government has replaced contractors in catering, cleaning and security with public hirings at 70 hospitals and that led to one of them saving more than 1 million

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  4. Authorities struggle with islanders' resistance to closed centres for migrants
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    rather than an open facility that is in effect a ‘health timebomb’”. SYRIZA spokesman Alexis Charitsis... the contractors for bulldozing forested public land to build roads to one of the sites. Violence erupted

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  5. Early details show energy emergency plan facing practical challenges
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    lead over SYRIZA. The governing party registered 31.7 pct of voting intentions, just 0.4 pct less than... cost of 150 mln euros. Contractors mulling the prospect of recommencing their activities noted

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  6. Govt rushes in new energy measures as Brussels decision on gas price cap deferred

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    of 2018-2021 by more than 20 pct, in accordance with the upcoming EU Directive. Thirdly... contractors who appear to be implicated both in the sale of the Predator spyware and in public

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  7. Minister pledges swift resolution as public anger over rail crash mounts
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    a notably more contrite tone than that with which the government had greeted the grim news... which relieved the network operator and its private contractors of the obligation to deliver

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  8. Nobody has less confidence in their government than the Greeks, OECD finds
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    Society

    The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has published its annual Government at a Glance report for 2013. The study includes some interesting data on Greece, particularly with regard to people’s plummeting trust in decision maker...

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  9. Independent Greeks to go it alone rather than join grand right-wing alliance

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    A few days after the prospect of an alliance between New Democracy and ultranationalist LAOS was floated, the possibility of even broader cooperation among right wing parties in Greece has been nipped in the bud. The anti-austerity Independent Greeks, l...

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  10. August trade deficit shrinks by 29.5 pct as imports fall faster than exports

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    Greece’s trade deficit narrowed by 29.5 percent in August, after soaring by a similar rate in July, according to the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT). The absolute figure showed the trade deficit in August fell to 1.23 billion euros, which is the...

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