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Athens fears Middle East instability, joins others to push for change in EU's Syria policy
PoliticsForeign PolicyMinister Alexandra Papadopoulou. EU’s policy in Syria Amid this uncertainty, Greece has recently been part... Council approved the European strategy towards Syria, which has since been revised multiple times... principles. For the Greek side, one other issue of particular interest is humanitarian aid, which has
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Newsletter 174 -14/09/2018
bailout ended on August 20, concluded on Friday without any definitive answer regarding Greece’s... reportedly set out its position that the measure is not necessary in fiscal terms because the 3.5 percent..., after Greece has submitted its draft 2019 budget and before the revised version has to be tabled
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Mitsotakis joins calls for EU to develop air defence system
PoliticsForeign Policyto get Patriot systems. “We all know who has them, we all know where they are, and we all know who... this framework they are also discussing the concession of anti-aircraft ammunition that Greece has, which could... also indicate that Athens, in addition to all the weapons and ammunition it has already provided
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Newsletter 66 - 11/03/2016
For Greece, EU–Turkey refugee plan has pros and many cons Greece is the only one of the countries... since mid-August that the ECB did not reduce the ELA cap, which has been lowered 13 times by a total... on border poses biggest problem Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has staked a big part of his future
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Greece most socially unjust country in EU, study finds
Society, a measure of income inequality, was the 24th highest out of 28 and it has the Greece has the second... that in Greece “the crisis has had a devastating effect on poverty and social exclusion... deprivation has more than doubled from 9.7 percent in 2007 to today’s 23.8 percent.” While Greece ranks
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Greece worst-performer in EU 28 for social justice
Society, a measure of income inequality, was the 21st (down from 24th) highest out of 28 and it has the Greece has... consecutive year, a recent study by the Bertelsmann Foundation has found. In its Social Justice Index..., the report found that the gap between Greece and Bulgaria and Romania “has actually widened again, since
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Newsletter 54 - 04/12/2015
of concerns about its patchy approach to the refugee crisis. Tsipras has much to answer for given that he...-related measures over the last two months and has declared its intention to vote against pension... by 1 percent on the 2015 figure of 48.62 billion. The Finance Ministry has incorporated revenue
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Glimmer of hope for efforts to negotiate over tax-free threshold, but not primary surplus
EconomyProgrammefor Greece’s programmes. Although last year’s fiscal space has been taken up by various measures... the institutions to drop the measure. So far, the lenders have appeared largely adamant that the change, bringing... suggested that Greece might be able to avoid the measure if there is enough fiscal space, as happened
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Labour market developments in Greece during Covid-19
Agoralabour productivity is expensive in Greece. Much has changed during and after the euro-crisis in Greece... such as vocational training, business licensing, wage policy and collective bargaining procedures. It is helpful... of the increase has been moderate. Two factors chiefly account for this difference. The government
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IMF sticks to reform, debt relief demands as programme role remains in doubt
EconomyProgrammethe compensatory measures as a way of softening the blow of the pension and tax interventions he has... director Christine Lagarde at the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday has... by the Fund for some time now, demanding reforms from Greece and debt relief from its eurozone partners. “I
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