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Newsletter 468 - 27/06/2025
. The session, focused on whether Karamanlis should face criminal charges for breach of duty, marked the second... deficit. The balance of payments would also be impacted by the drop in travel receipts from reduced... are also positive as the latest data released this week regarding travel receipts showed that April
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Authorities struggle with islanders' resistance to closed centres for migrants
PoliticsGreek Politics”. There was condemnation from all sides in Parliament for the heavy-handed use of riot police to quell... disquiet, even in a society accustomed to witnessing heavy policing of urban protests. While... the contractors for bulldozing forested public land to build roads to one of the sites. Violence erupted
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Newsletter 45 - 02/10/2015
burden in the last quarter of this year appears very heavy, with a large amount of taxes due by the end... performance, which saw its share of the vote increase slightly to 28.1 from 27.8 percent in January... and household equipment, where it fell by 24.1 percent. Furniture, electrical and household equipment saw
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Newsletter 288 - 12/03/2021
was held in the capital’s Nea Smyrni neighbourhood on Tuesday in the wake of heavy-handed behaviour... to an index of 67.5 in Q3 2020. Old apartments, classified as over five years old, saw their prices increase... to five years old saw price increases of 2 percent in Q4, compared to a rise of 4.2 percent in Q3
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Newsletter 274 -20/11/2020
of the coronavirus. The opposition parties saw the move as excessive and an affront to democratic sensibilities... of the worst across the EU, due to the high dependency on tourism and international travel. The Autumn... 15 pct of GDP over the next 20 years, and decrease to 13 pct of GDP by 2060. The European Travel
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Summer optimism undermined by uptick in Covid-19 indicators and subdued expectations for tourism
PoliticsGreek Politicsof 4 pct. Wednesday also saw a rise in the number of patients intubated in ICUs from 639 to 642... of the first week of reopening bars and restaurants and relaxing the rules for domestic travel and retail... revised down its expectations for travel receipts from its initial forecast of 50-50 pct of 2019
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Newsletter 241 - 28/02/2020
in a society accustomed to witnessing heavy policing of urban protests. While the government has... borders for 72 hours so Syrian refugees can leave the country and travel on into Europe. Meanwhile... travel and trade due to the spread of the coronavirus. Trade with China will be among the first areas
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Are hirings in the public sector out of control?
EconomyFeaturesof whether Greece can be trusted to manage its own affairs once the heavy surveillance of the programme... permanent public sector staff and 15,000 contractors, at a cost of 600 million euros. These accusations... contractors. Their numbers have swelled from 3,413 in 2012 to 15,601 at the end of 2017. By far the largest
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Govt forced to back down over Easter travel, turns focus to May re-opening
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government has abandoned tentative plans to allow Greeks to travel to their ancestral villages for the upcoming Orthodox Easter, but hopes that this will allow schools and businesses to re-open... would not be able to allow Greeks to travel between regions ahead of the May 2 celebrations due
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Newsletter 271 -30/10/2020
on this front so far, though. Pandemic takes heavy toll on Greek workers Research by GSEE finds that all... and exposing them to a particularly high risk of poverty. Losing a job comes at a particularly heavy... that a large portion of workers fell into one of three categories: Either they saw their work suspended
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