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Latest lockdown tweaks prompt opposition backlash
PoliticsGreek Politicswave advances” and of refusing to accept the facts on the ground. SYRIZA were particularly critical... a balance between optimism and caution, warning that while warmer weather and the vaccination programme
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Home testing starts as govt aims to break free from pandemic's grip
PoliticsGreek Politicsdecision but officials are wary of sparking a new wave that would undermine the tourism sector... that the combination of vaccines, home test and warmer weather could lead to the current worrying
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Health system feeling strain of Covid-19 second wave
PoliticsGreek Politics, opposition leader Alexis Tsipras offered to work with New Democracy to confront the second wave. However, he
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Govt announces stricter measures for unvaccinated to curb autumn pandemic wave
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGrowing pressure on the health system and the threat of a new wave of Covid-19 infections as holidaymakers return to the cities have prompted the Greek government to announce a new raft of public health measures for the autumn. Presenting the measures on Tuesday, Health Minister Vassilis Kikilias
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PM makes new bid to address Covid wave, speculation about restrictions
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was due to return on Thursday to a communications tactic he used regularly during the early days of the pandemic – the televised address – in a bid to contain the latest Covid wave. Trailed for the last couple of days, the speech will reportedly provide a defence
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Parties at odds over latest pandemic measures, way to tackle Covid wave
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis appears to have played his last card, short of a lockdown, in the effort to contain the pandemic as New Democracy looks to ride out the latest Covid wave. In a televised address on Thursday, the premier announced that unvaccinated Greeks would be barred from
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It's the hope that kills you
Agorareporting close to 250 per day and already had 21 coronavirus-linked deaths. Greece rode a wave... wave should have made clear to the Greek authorities the benefits of being in relative isolation... of the first wave, the daily cases were barely moving above 100. By the end of April, when the lockdown
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Newsletter 275 -27/11/2020
. The impact and the ferocity of the second wave is reflected both on the macro and fiscal data.... Aggregate PIB expenditure came to 7.01 billion, overshooting the target by 2.28 billion. Overall, the PIB
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Clashes add to political tension over division, police violence
PoliticsGreek Politicsadvised them that the man who had been beaten was a member of a radical left group and had been... of investing in a new wave of “indignants,” alluding to the anti-austerity protests in Syntagma Square... as police clashed with some protestors. One policeman was dragged off his motorcycle and beaten. Along
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ND walks tightrope with 2022 budget, looks for answer to inflation
PoliticsGreek Politicsto reports. This will be achieved by winding down most of the existing support initiatives and through... for its policy makers. The wave of price increases is felt across the board, from supplies to food
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