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Pension rises approved as public opinion teeters ahead of election year
PoliticsGreek Politics, although the economic environment is expected to be tougher next year than in 2022 as a result of lower... Democracy, while SYRIZA and Greek Solution abstained from the ballot rather than voting against the law... will see a rise, which will probably be lower than inflation, around a third will not as they have
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SYRIZA gears up for looming elections as poll gap narrows
PoliticsGreek Politicsa more technocratic, rather than political, background. Party officials say that they want to be on their toes in case Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis decides to call elections sooner than later... rather than a genuine effort to restore trust in Greek institutions.
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Opposition senses PM's position on phonetapping becoming weaker
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe impression among observers that rather than lay the issue to rest, as Mitsotakis would have wanted... weeks, listing more than 100 people who were allegedly targeted by Predator. The opposition sees... of willingness, even among victims, to come forward. Very few of those on the list of more than 100
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Tracking Greece's fiscal performance
Agorathe ESA results for the general government, which takes more time than recording the ongoing cash... to around 2016. The deficits reported by the MoF would typically be much smaller than the deficits... brackets more than the rich, so it is also a dubious tax from the point of view of a sound
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Arrivals nearly double year-on-year in 10M, travel receipts exceed 17 bln
EconomyMacroeconomywas higher than the 1.13 billion euros registered in October 2021. It was also higher than the 489.6... by the Covid-19 pandemic. Most notably, October’s balance is higher than the 1.2 billion euros of October 2019
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PM adds minimum wage hike to pre-election promises, with hints of more to come
PoliticsGreek Politicsever closer on the horizon. In what has become a pattern of surprise announcements, an earlier-than... that the minimum wage would be raised on April 1, a month earlier than scheduled. The announcement came after... than the eurozone average. The latest raise is expected to bring the minimum wage to at least 751
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Opposition hoping surveillance, cronyism scandals will bite ND
PoliticsGreek Politicstool to EYP’s normal bugging process, rather than being part of a rogue operation being executed... uncovered would have to be weightier than whatever has seen the light of day so far. Although most... was a key shareholder in a company that had been awarded more than 400,000 euros in public contracts
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Travel balance up to Nov reaches 15.62 bln, arrivals down 11 pct on 2019
EconomyMacroeconomywas higher than the 154.8 million euros registered in 2021. It was also higher than the 33.3 million euros... pandemic. Most notably, November’s balance is higher than the 108.8 million euros of November 2019
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Opposition dismisses PM's economic pledges as electioneering, keeps focus on surveillance
PoliticsGreek Politicsround of public sector entry exams in March for more than 5,000 positions. Speaking at an event... the economy are more mixed. Fewer than a third of respondents (29.7 percent) describe their financial situation as good, while fewer than half (47.7 percent) say they can cover their basic needs. Almost 7
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PM bats away surveillance claims, looks to final pre-election handouts
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat the public trusts the government on defence and foreign policy issues more than in most other areas... of reporting on the surveillance issue, including publishing the names of more than 100 people... million euros, more than half of which is expected to have a carry-over effect. The government
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