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Newsletter 230 -29/11/2019
targets The Greek Finance Ministry announced during the week that the process of prepaying some... Ministry (MoF) budget execution bulletin confirmed during the week. The primary surplus surpassed... euros. During the first ten months of the year, total expenditure came to 42.46 billion, landing
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Mitsotakis sets aside talk of next Greek president to meet Trump at White House
PoliticsGreek Politicson the issues that Mitsotakis is likely to raise during the meeting with Trump, which will be the first... in the discussion. During the visit, the Greek government also wants to stress that the country’s economy... and Erdogan during which the latter launched a forceful repost to the Greek president’s chiding remarks about
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Mitsotakis sets out economic goals for 2020 as govt vies for extra fiscal space
PoliticsGreek Politics. “The extra fiscal space created during 2020 will be directed firstly towards reducing taxation..., are dependent on how much fiscal space is available during the year and will require a sign-off from..., which Mitsotakis announced during his visit to the US last week, because Greece’s borrowing from
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Mitsotakis eyes multiple benefits after nominating top judge to be first female president
PoliticsGreek Politicsand was elected as Council of State president during SYRIZA’s time in power. In this sense, she should... and during his time as president, is viewed dimly by some in the conservative party. In recent years... minister Kostas Karamanlis during their time in power as they sought ways of sowing division within
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A virus is spreading across China, but so is the demand for transparency
Agoraand Taiwan-related developments during the past months. This health crisis emerged on China’s home turf... from travel bans to and from cities during the busiest holiday week in China’s Lunar New Year... censorship during the coronavirus crisis would prove counter-productive and risks intensifying
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ND targets NGOs in latest bid to bring migration under control
PoliticsGreek Politicsof hundreds of NGOs that operate in our country,” government spokesman Stelios Petsas said during his regular press briefing on Tuesday, ahead of the vote in Parliament, during which only MPs from... as well, but has not provided tangible evidence to back up the theory. During Tuesday’s debate
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Report emphasises high level of dissatisfaction with democracy in Greece
Societydecades and underlines how dissatisfaction grew during the crisis. The Global Satisfaction with Democracy... satisfaction with democracy only briefly - during the Andreas Papandreou government of 1981 to 1989... referendum, during which the Greek public voted to reject the bailout terms they were presented, although
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Govt takes up fiscal requests with EU as pressure over min wage, main homes mounts
Politicsand Finance Minister Christos Staikouras during his visit and will hear from them the Greek arguments... to meet Gentiloni during his visit. Speaking to a parliamentary committee earlier this week... comments, SYRIZA has tried to pile on the pressure. During a parliamentary committee discussion
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Newsletter 238 -07/02/2020
and accountability,” government spokesman Stelios Petsas said during his regular press briefing on Tuesday... since April 2011, when unemployment came to 16.4 percent. During November, employment decreased... their workforce during the month, resulting in an increase in employment which was the highest since May 1999
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Athens looks an as EU prepares to clear path for North Macedonia, Albania accession talks
PoliticsForeign PolicyThe European Union is set to agree on Tuesday, during a video conference of foreign and EU affairs... discussed during Monday’s EU Foreign Affairs Council videoconference. Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias... for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell said this issue will be evaluated during Thursday’s EU Council. Regarding
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