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Newsletter 285 - 19/02/2021
and effective management. The opposition party, though, is still haunted by the stigma of the Mati...’ Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis referred to the Mati fire when he responded to SYRIZA’s.... “The people asking about this issue should ask themselves about what they did in Mati, where
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Is a lack of spending hampering Greece's firefighting capabilities?
Societythe Mati fire now holds the record of the deadliest peacetime disaster in Greece... week’s fire at Mati was on a different scale. It was very brief in duration, according to the most..., and the 10 whole days that the most severe blazes raged in 2007. The Mati fire burned in all 12.7
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Government commits to uniformed personnel pay rises amid clamour for higher incomes
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has been forced to commit to pay rises for all uniformed..., coast guard and fire service to be awarded more pay following the recent announcement of wage... that more pay increases would be announced in due course but “under the right conditions and at the right
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Stournaras in firing line for arguing Greeks can pay more taxes
PoliticsGreek Politicsand indirect taxes should increase, in fact what he meant was that Greeks as a whole do not pay enough tax. He... had already been done. His original comment was interpreted as a suggestion that Greeks should pay... Antonis Samaras described 2013 as the worst year on record in terms of the taxes Greeks had to pay
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‘We’re dying to pay our taxes’
Agora, in Thessaloniki, Greece’s second city, to pay the first of six instalments of Greece’s new property tax... to pay our taxes even if it’s the last thing we do,” he said. This month marks the anniversary... of a pensioner while queuing to pay another austerity-related tax could be seen as a metaphor for how
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Cabinet act firms up details of CoCos issuance by Greek banks
Economynot pay the annual coupon in two anniversaries, not necessarily consecutive. CoCos holders do not have... is at the discretion of the bank’s BoD, which may also decide to pay the coupon in the form of common shares... bank share price. If a bank decides not to pay the annual coupon on CoCos, then it is obliged
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Coalition adopts court ruling that restores judges' pay, others poised to follow
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe coalition passed an amendment through Parliament this week which means it will have to pay... pay scale means that Supreme Court judges will be paid 4,134 euros per month gross. At the other end.... On top of that, the coalition has to pay them an extra 69.6 million euros per year. The amendment adopts
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ND prepares first three bills for votes before Parliament's summer recess
PoliticsGreek Politicsmuch ENFIA they will have to pay in the coming months. This year’s bill will be lighter by 10 to 30... on Saturday that this debt settlement scheme would be the last of its kind. Mati measures Tuesday also marked once year since the devastating wildfire at Mati, northeast of Athens, which caused 102 deaths
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After pay rises in armed forces, PM faces calls for broader wage increases
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat members of Greece’s armed forces would see their pay increase by between 13 pct to 20 pct over... sector pay scale mean that civil servants’ wages have increased by 2.1 billion euros, which
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Mitsotakis unveils major defence package against backdrop of forces pay rise dispute
PoliticsGreek Politics. The announcement comes after a week of upheaval in New Democracy, as ministers called for pay rises... following the PM’s announcement of pay rises for armed forces personnel. Several prominent politicians
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