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Newsletter 190 -18/01/2018
deal will go in the direction that the prime minister wants. its five MPs would be allowed a free vote on the name settlement. This means they are free to vote for or against it, or even abstain..., off target by 1.01 billion euros. The MoF noted that the shortfall was mainly due to 1.12 billion
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Deal or no deal? Greece wrestles with the Macedonia issue
Agorathat diplomacy and politics can deal in. Clearly, Greeks are free to dislike the Prespes Agreement... will be free to join NATO, and perhaps then the EU (although the latter will be a much longer process... is that it does not completely shut the door on potential irredentism or agitation from the north (mainly
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Newsletter 223 -11/10/2019
or electronically in order to qualify for the tax-free threshold. It remains to be seen if Greece’s lenders see.... SYRIZA also claims that the higher threshold for electronic transactions cancels out the tax-free..., bringing the total shortfall to 14.59 billion. This was driven mainly by a 4.1 percent rise in imports
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PM calls for unity as opposition reacts to decisions on health, labour
PoliticsGreek Politics. Mitsotakis drew several parallels between the effort Greeks made to free themselves from Ottoman rule... year the 200 years since the start of the War of Independence free of the threat from Covid-19. A day... are mainly carried out on suspected cases and, as such, Greece is not currently conducting the kind of broad
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Newsletter 410 - 02/02/2024
by farmers, mainly in central Greece. The protestors are threatening to block the Athens-Thessaloniki...-free fuel, scrapping of VAT on supplies, suspension of seizures and foreclosures, lower energy costs... what is required to secure hassle-free travel around the world. Applications are dominated by Chinese
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Relief for coalition as wildfire threat subsides
PoliticsGreek Politicscontrol a large forest fire that had been burning for three days north of Athens. The trouble authorities had in tackling the fire prompted criticism of the government from opposition parties. Issues... parts of Greece, particularly the Peloponnese, were ravaged by fire, the New Democracy government
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PM under pressure to account for destruction, as wildfires stoke anti-migrant sentiment
PoliticsGreek Politicshandling of the catastrophic wildfires which continue to burn across Greece. Also, a major fire.... Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has come under fire for remaining largely silent on the issue... and filling empty posts in the fire service. On Wednesday, the total area burned overtook
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Opposition slams PM's positive assessment of Athens wildfire response
PoliticsGreek Politicsand a 4.7-mln-euro emergency funding package for the eight local authorities affected by the fire. The prime..., who appeared briefly earlier in the day to announce that the fire was under control. Kikilias said the fire had taken 40 hours to subdue, claiming that the response started within five minutes of its
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Greek families shell out for education as state system falls short
Societythat even though education in Greece is free, families spend around 3 billion euros annually...’s constitution, education is free and state-funded. However, due to the sub-standard quality... into a free state-run university, since the degrees from private institutions operating in Greece
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Newsletter 19 - 13/03/2015
with the ECB for cheap funding. Those bonds mainly resulted from the first bank recapitalisation in 2013... to 50.9 billion in January and mainly relate to pillar II bonds. The interest cost of ELA funding... the war and that during Greece’s military dictatorship it was an oasis of international culture and free
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