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Is a lack of spending hampering Greece's firefighting capabilities?
SocietyFire Service has historically been prodigiously well-equipped in terms of land and airborne.... Nevertheless, the increase in firefighters’ pay and pensions is more than ten times the annual cost
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Newsletter 320 - 10/12/2021
year’s very modest performance, annual growth for 2021 will land at 6.6 pct. During Q4 2019... billion euros. In the ten months of 2021, the trade deficit increased by 23.8 percent, bringing the total
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Athens moves to avoid repeat of EU division over migration policy
PoliticsForeign PolicyLast week’s decision by the SPD-led coalition government in Berlin to impose temporary controls on Germany’s land borders is provoking strong reaction within Europe, putting the migration issue back... back almost ten years, to the refugee crisis of 2015-2016, when panicked leaders began closing borders
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Government hopes new affordable homes bill can help alleviate housing pressure
PoliticsGreek Politicsconcessions on selected public buildings or land to private developers. In return for covering all design... at 70 percent of market rates for ten years, after which tenants may buy at a capped price
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Newsletter 494 - 13/02/2026
. With the government’s full constitutional package set to land in March, just as PASOK holds its congress... in ten earn below €1,200 gross. The most worrying aspect of this paradox is that little suggests
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EU prosecutor challenges government’s narrative on corruption
PoliticsGreek Politicswhose cases ultimately land in the courts of each member state. She praised the Greek prosecutors... businesses, only 300 have turnover above 300 million euros, he noted, and the top ten have combined
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Newsletter 4 - 21/11/2014
billion in unpaid taxes, of which almost ten billion was created within 2014, requires some kind... that the first ten months of 2014 have produced a revenue shortfall of 900 million, which could increase... rise in the yield for the Greek ten-year bond. Mid-week it stood at 8.34 percent. Back in June
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Newsletter 60 - 29/01/2016
. There are few people crossing Greece’s land border with Turkey, where there are natural obstacles (a river) and man-made ones (a 10.5-kilometer fence and land mines), but the Aegean Sea is a different... islands to prevent them simply moving on en masse to other parts of Europe. On this subject, a lot
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Search for solutions, not scapegoats in EU's refugee crisis
Agoraspokeswoman Ewa Moncure recently highlighted. There are few people crossing Greece’s land border with Turkey, where there are natural obstacles (a river) and man-made ones (a 10.5-kilometer fence and land... refugees and migrants arrive on its islands to prevent them simply moving on en masse to other
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Waiting for Godot in Greece
Agoraattention is being given to the consistent rise in the yield for the Greek ten-year bond. Mid-week..., yields on the three-year debt are within striking distance of its ten-year peer. In early.... Once the international creditors have finally returned, the complex process of shaping a narrative
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