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Government tries to deflect criticism over wildfires with appeal to patriotism
PoliticsGreek Politicsto an outpouring of patriotic sentiment which has put on hold much of the criticism of the response... their lives to the fires in the vicinity of Volos, bringing the death toll to five. Although the human... surveillance affair. During Wednesday’s debate, PASOK leader Nikos Androulakis put
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Majority for marriage equality in sight despite reluctance among ruling party MPs
PoliticsGreek Politics. Androulakis was also put in an uncomfortable position by one of his MPs, who told public broadcaster..., and to put the blame solely on individuals. In the weeks after the crash, the government had focussed very much on the human error aspect of the collision, particularly the role of the station master
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PM pins hopes on conciliatory approach to soften farmers' protests
PoliticsGreek Politicswill be enough to calm the voices threatening an escalation in protests which have put PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis... a series of amendments to a farming bill being debated in Parliament, while the party has also put... human error and violation of safety rules for crash, claiming that while he had fought to get safety
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Athens keeps close eye on Turkey's reactions amid MSP and GSI developments
PoliticsForeign Policyis, according to sources, considering to put forward within the next few months its plans... of human activities in the maritime space and, at the same time, captures on a map the ultimate... position we put forward, and we are bound by the Convention on the Law of the Sea that we have signed
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PM set on sharing out more economic benefits in bid to recover support
PoliticsGreek Politicsbut also bring significant human resources back to the country after the devastating crisis years, which... difficulties and re-establish a level of support among the electorate that would put it on course... been put in serious doubt by the centre-right party’s recent decline in the opinion polls. Mitsotakis
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Challenges mount for Tsipras as pension reform leads into make or break period
PoliticsGreek Politicstrailing New Democracy by 3.3 percentage points (21.3 vs 18 percent), while a Metron Analysis survey for Parapolitika weekly put the conservatives comfortably even further ahead of the leftists (23.6.... The greater concern for the government must be that the proposals it has put forward seek to keep reductions
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Could Greece's immigration reforms have an impact on upcoming elections?
Societyof the UN Convention on Human Rights. These include designating paths to citizenship for older... of jobs, subsidised mortgages, language lessons, charter flights and social support facilities
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General govt primary cash surplus expands to 3.3 bln at end-June, arrears rise to 7.2 bln
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece’s general government (gg) primary cash surplus expanded considerably to 3.33 billion euros in the first half of 2016 from just 245 million in the corresponding period last year, the Finance Ministry (MoF) gg bulletin showed on Thursday. The subst...
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Unpaid taxes keep rising, tax audits short of targets
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece’s unpaid taxes rose by 873 million in May at a slightly accelerating pace compared to the 763 million recorded in April, according to data provided by the General Secretariat of Information Systems. Following May’s performance, the year to date figure of new unpaid tax obligations stands
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Unpaid taxes rose by 1 bln a month in H1 2014, collection targets missed
EconomyMacroeconomyThe rate of increase in Greece’s unpaid taxes accelerated to 1.03 billion euros in June from 873 million in May and 763 million in April, according to data provided by the General Secretariat of Information Systems, which also revealed that most tax collection targets are being missed. The June
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