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Personal responsibility and public healthcare: Greece on a wing and a prayer
Agoraeffort to keep the public healthcare system from buckling under the pressure of Covid-19. The hirings... austerity measures have both crippled the healthcare system’s capacity to respond to the medical needs... under-funding of the health system, with public health expenditure at approximately 5.2 percent of GDP
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Newsletter 245 -27/03/2020
Battle on two fronts for government New Democracy under pressure to bolster health system... measures to shore up the public health system as well as local businesses. Ahead of Thursday’s... inthe public health system, but Petsas claimed that Greece now has 813 ICU beds available to treat
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Newsletter 273 -13/11/2020
been challenged in recent days, as the health authorities scramble to bolster the hospital system... and increasing class sizes in the middle of a pandemic. The government’s management of the health system also... system during the financial crisis under instruction from the country’s creditors. Tsipras
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Stock taking: Where is the Greek economy now?
Agoranot always get the attention they deserve; certainly not in a political system... that were attached to these disbursements. Whether the country’s political system and acumen have... their fortunes abroad with net emigration. This reflects a lack of trust in the political system to turn
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The nightmare of our choice
Agora, there is darkness. An archaic railway system, poorly trained emergency services, inadequate forensic investigations, a jumbled judicial process and a political system interested only in looking after itself...-funded scheme to ensure there was a fully functioning remote traffic control and signalling system
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Varoufakis and his friendly fire
Agoraa parallel payment system in the government’s first months in power. First of all, let’s establish... in IT to “surreptitiously” clone the Finance Ministry’s tax system, which would involve hacking...” and he did not want lenders to know what he was doing. The shadow system would work as follows
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Newsletter 211 -21/06/2019
before MPs. He said this would include interventions in the tax system and the new Medium-Term Fiscal... the electoral law to avoid the proportional representation system adopted by SYRIZA being implemented... council as the allocation of councillors was decided based on the first round results, using a PR system
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Public sector staff trends survive MoU exit, change of government
Societyof the pandemic in spring 2020 ignited calls to bolster the public health system by hiring essential... after a series of radical headcount reduction exercises. Ailing public health system An area of particular interest due to the Covid-19 crisis is the public health system. Contesting claims have been
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Govt views pandemic window as opportunity to advance contentious reform agenda
PoliticsGreek Politics, the introduction of a new supplementary pension system and the implementation of teacher evaluations as part... to table legislation focussing on a new supplementary pension system which is to be capitalised based... consultation by the end of this month so Parliament can vote on it next month. The new system
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On campaign trail, PM promises higher pay as SYRIZA wavers over MEP assault claims
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe proportional system he will read it as a mandate to pursue a strong progressive government and avoid a second ballot. The New Democracy campaign has argued that the proportional system will not deliver a stable... the proportional system and the prospect of a potential re-run under the more familiar bonus system
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