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  1. More fires at Moria add to pressure for effective response to asylum crisis

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    expected that more cases will be confirmed. The accompanying track-and-trace programme has also been... for Lesvos, something that so far Athens has not done. There have reportedly been several direct offers... and on the main roads which had been barricaded by police to prevent the migrants from reaching

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  2. Covid-19 data prolongs wait for re-opening amid new clash over policing
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    for the disease even though the lockdown has been in place for week longer there than the rest... hopes of opening the food service sector appear to have been abandoned. The only concession the government has made so far is to allow 110 stores selling seasonal goods (Christmas decorations, etc

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  3. New Omicron measures met with exasperation by business and scepticism from opposition
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    of the requirement for Covid passes which has been in force since November. In light of demands from...Alarming new data on the spread of the Omicron variant in Greece has led the government to announce... businesses, but have been criticised by opposition parties as irresponsible and misguided. Just a week

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  4. SYRIZA calls for vote of no confidence, as PM's apology over storm chaos fails to chime
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    of an apology for the mishandling has been followed by a call for a vote of no confidence in the government... taken by the prime minister. SYRIZA has been clear from the outset that it lays the blame..., acknowledging that there had been “failures and deficiencies” which needed to be addressed. He stopped

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  5. Enhanced surveillance concludes, but more reforms and tougher fiscal targets lie ahead
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    EconomyProgramme

    Greece has been operating under since the summer of 2018, was released yesterday, signaling the end of another chapter in the Greek crisis. The European Commission, which has been overseeing the process... of commitments have been met. In the summer of 2018, Greece made specific reform commitments in six broad

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  6. SYRIZA leadership contenders enter final stretch, as ID cards become latest headache for govt
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    It is the opposite end of the political spectrum that has been causing a bigger headache for the government... Professor Othon Iliopoulos, were to resign for any reason. Kasselakis has said that in the event... Androulakis was still an MEP. A Kasselakis win remains unlikely, given that he has already proven unpopular

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  7. Greece stuck in the long tunnel of political transition
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    Agora

    The staggered demise of New Democracy and PASOK, which has caused the disappearance of the centre in Greek politics, has forced the country into a political transition whose duration and outcome... elections and build a decisive lead over New Democracy. The leftist party has hit a ceiling in terms of its

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  8. Newsletter 46 - 09/10/2015

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    resources in key departments and has been subject to painful wage cuts over the past six years. Put... is to now put together the implementation laws needed for the 49 milestones it has agreed with Greece’s... bailout programme by the end of November. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has set this date as his

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  9. Greece falls to 79 out of 190 economies in ease of doing business ranking

    EconomyFeatures

    The latest Doing Business Indicators report for 2020 by the World Bank Group has shown that Greece... that in the space of a year, the country has dropped by seven places. It is now ranked below Peru (79..., highlighting that while efforts have been made in Greece to launch a business, the underlying components

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  10. Economic diversification vital to Greece's post-coronavirus future
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    Agora

    Greece’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic has been admired internationally for both the control... economic austerity endured, Greece has put the USA, France and the UK to shame on both a per capita and cumulative basis. One area where Greece has not escaped though, is the economic contraction

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