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After support package, government turns attention to "everyday" issues
PoliticsGreek Politicsno university facilities occupied by students or other protest groups. Public service evaluation In another... employees. It also does not cover the health service or the citizens’ service centres which are set... disorder and improving the delivery of public services. School bullying, campus radicalism
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Special tax structure would benefit hotels and jobs, bank argues
EconomyFeaturestheir competitiveness in both service and price, create new jobs in the hotel industry and satellite industries, allow for investments to improve service, reduce competition from short-term rental... reputation and quality of service. In parallel, interest is also growing in terms of investments
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Bid for better use of digital tools likely to have decisive impact on ND's goals
PoliticsGreek Politicsof procedures needed. Pierrakakis also vowed to bolster the role of Citizen Service Centres (KEP), which... steps in the process will be putting the general secretariat for information systems at the service... and running by the end of the year. Although calls can be accepted, the service does not yet have
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Greek leaders' contrasting visions all a blur
Agorathe VAT rate in the food service sector from 24 to 13 percent, a three-year VAT grace period and 40..., the limit on hirings has to be matched to the needs of the civil service, some parts of which... with greater incentives to ensure that their local authorities deliver an adequate service. One
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PM sets criticism aside, highlights unprecedented conditions behind fires
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat it is impossible for the fire service and emergency services to prevent any damage being done by the blazes... was compounded when it was revealed on Thursday that the fire service had not used the National Observatory... by the fire service during the last few years. Local officials outside of Athens have also been
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Greece and the euro: The flight of Icarus
Agoraof the workforce was employed in the civil service and where public spending reached unrivalled levels, I’m... that led to the size of Greece’s civil service doubling in three decades. Under the leadership of Costas... of money and even some school buses are being put out of service. This is a dramatic change
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Mitsotakis marks first year at ND helm by emphasising tax cut goals
PoliticsGreek Politicsto former Prime Minister Antonis Samaras’s decision to lower VAT in the food service sector in 2013... be reduced. He has insisted that there will be no dismissals in the civil service, a pledge that he... of the government recently on the state of the health service, implying that there is a lack of investment
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Under relentless pressure from opponents, Tsipras unveils plans for new crisis agency
PoliticsGreek Politicsand replaced by a national crisis management service that will be headed by someone who will be approved... and other bodies, such as the National Meteorological Service. The prime minister said that 500 million euros in funding has been secured for the service, which will be provided with extra staff
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Spying scandal triggers high-level resignations, serious questions for government and PM
PoliticsGreek Politics, Grigoris Dimitriadis, and the head of the National Intelligence Service (EYP), Panagiotis Kontoleon... an MEP, revealed that a check by a European Parliament service found there had been an attempt to entrap... from within the PM’s office, and the head of the service, Kontoleon. Test of credibility However
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First head-to-head clash over spying scandal in Parliament fails to deliver decisive blow
PoliticsGreek Politicsearlier this month of the head of the National Intelligence Service (EYP) and the Prime Minister’s... on Androulakis’s phone was found during a check by a service at the European Parliament). Katrinis set out... of the intelligence service’s individual targets and challenged Tsipras to tell Parliament whether he had any
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