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Mitsotakis pledges more tax cuts in 2020 amid police violence claims
PoliticsGreek PoliticsWednesday night’s vote on the 2020 budget, which saw the economic plan approved by just the 158 New... that the government saw as a key part of the confidence-building exercise vis-à-vis foreign investors. Staikouras... to a certain amount that would allow the IMF to keep its presence in Greece until the end of the post
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Evia flooding reopens government's summer wounds
PoliticsGreek Politicsfinancial assistance, in the hope that this will buy it enough time until some of the restoration... outlets and even blogs. It was a move that the opposition saw as a thinly-disguised attempt by ND..., which saw Greece drop five places to 70th out of 180 countries. New Democracy’s response
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Report on minister's surveillance ups ante for ND, as PASOK reels from MEP's arrest
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat until now, the government had accused opposition parties of peddling stories and scandal-mongering... could be substantially diluted over the coming months. Kaili arrest New Democracy saw an opportunity..., Kaili had taken what many saw as an ND-friendly stance, from vehemently opposing the Prespes Agreement
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Newsletter 393 - 15/09/2023
Minister up until the May elections, replaced him. Varvitsiotis is the second minister to resign after... was at 102.2 points in Q3 2008. Old apartments - those over five years old - saw their prices increase by 14.1 pct YoY. New properties saw price increases of 13.8 pct YoY. Prices in Athens and Thessaloniki
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Newsletter 400 - 03/11/2023
this week, which saw the emergence of new revelations regarding the long-running surveillance..., who is Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s nephew and served as the PM’s general secretary until... were up by 8.4 percent. The corresponding volumes saw fuels down by 3.2 percent, a 0.7 percent drop
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Newsletter 402 - 17/11/2023
the disciplinary process. Some within the party saw this is a crude power play by Kasselakis... until his downfall.EconomyGovt turns to handouts again in face of cost-of-living irritationThe Greek... is persistent, rising by 9.9 pct, accelerating from September. Basic goods saw some
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Kassalekis goes from blank canvas to empty vessel, blowing open progressive space
Agorathey wanted. What many saw in September was someone who could beat Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis... on any internal feuding. Kasselakis responded in what many saw as a heavy-handed manner by trying... to be on an irreversible slide to the fringes of Greek politics, where the party existed until Greece’s
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Kasselakis ousts controversial MP, intensifying speculation about plans for SYRIZA
PoliticsGreek Politics: Polakis was reportedly a key figure in the process that saw Kasselakis, then a virtual unknown, run... September. Some observers saw this as the start of the effort by the young politician to show the public... to enter what until now has been a public healthcare space.
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Greek households switch to natural gas in record numbers as winter approaches
EconomyFeaturesin uptake. Heating oil dominated the domestic heating market in Greek cities until a major infrastructure... gas are estimated at 40 percent. This year also saw the relaxation of the rules governing new... from Russia, and 25 percent comes in the form of liquefied natural gas (LNG). DEPA was until recently
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Newsletter 168 -29/06/2018
businessman Ivan Savvidis, with whom the coalition has had a close relationship until recently. The term... surveillance procedure. The Greek authorities commit to a surplus of 3.5 percent of GDP until 2022, which... thereafter. This long-term forecast is a downward revision from the previous DSA parameter that saw real
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