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Newsletter 7 - 12/12/2014
will not pay off. However, there is enough doubt about the outcome of the three rounds of voting to preclude... that cumulative collections stand at just 277 million so far. Those banks (six commercial and six
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Court ruling on pension cuts could create new problem in talks, fiscal plans
EconomyProgrammereductions as well as to pay only half of the retroactive amounts for the 2-year period, citing... pensions of a total amount of 2.07 billion and the remaining 277 million relates to supplementary
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Opposition lines up attack on government over wildfires with visits to affected areas
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat they would have to wait their turn for danger pay behind those faced with working in air conditioned... on the fires. Hazard pay controversy The latest fires have also reignited the debate over pay... to an amendment passed in July, awarding hazard pay to parliamentary staff. Seasonal firefighters described
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Newsletter 27 - 22/05/2015
that without further funding from its partners, it will not be able to pay the International Monetary Fund next month. It is due to pay 300 million euros on June 5 in the first of several debt... decline. 2 Cyprus decouples from Greece Minimising danger of contagion must now be a scenario
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Newsletter 277 -11/12/2020
PM rebuffs Covid-19 criticism Mitsotakis defends govt stance but is forced to extend some measures until Jan After being forced to extend Covid-19 restrictions into January, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis tried to defend this week his, and his gover...
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Amendment for migrant workers passes amid turmoil for government
PoliticsGreek Politics. The artwork by local Greek-American artist Georgia Lale shows a Greek flag made up of pink and white... of repeatedly bending to the will of the far right. PASOK defended the artist’s right to express herself
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Newsletter 205 -10/05/2019
to pay their dues in up to 120 instalments after being granted a reduction of the original amount... of their monthly retirement pay. For those earning 501 to 600 euros, the amount paid out will be 70 percent.... Of this available funds, 3.6 billion euros will be used in the coming weeks to pay off part of Greece’s loan from
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Newsletter 389 - 14/07/2023
an omnibus bill that ranges from the new pay scale in the public sector to the extension of some... the end of its new term, but it was quick to shut these claims down with a new pay scale that has a fiscal cost of some 500 million euros annually and intends to reward low pay civil servants and those
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Parliament's bailout probe has potential to be politically toxic
PoliticsGreek Politics. There is a danger that the memorandum inquiry and the Georgiou probe will fuel populist... Pavlopoulos, who was interior minister in Karamanlis’s government and one of the former New Democracy’s
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Coalition goes in search of deciding votes for electoral law, prepares more legislation
PoliticsGreek Politicsagainst the government’s proposal. Interior Minister Panayiotis Kouroublis did not rule out completely on Monday the possibility that some last-minute deal could be struck. The danger for the government
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