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  1. PM tries to wrestle back initiative as new parties reshape political landscape

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    islands, the renovation of more than 150 rural health centres, and relocation grants such as the 10,000

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  2. New parties redraw political map as ND and PASOK scramble for control
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    behind rural areas. Internally, Androulakis is unlikely to reprimand Athens Mayor Haris Doukas

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  3. Multiple facets of inequality in Greece: a decade of divergence between data and daily life
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    again due to accumulated demand, staff shortages and long waiting times. Rural areas face additional

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  4. Are hirings in the public sector out of control?
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    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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  5. Public sector staff trends survive MoU exit, change of government
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    in early summer. In June 2019 the number of public sector contractors was 103,213 and in June 2020 it had... in the latter part of 2019, however there was no corresponding fall in the number of contractors. New record

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  6. How the pension fund that invested heavily in Attica Bank lost half its reserves

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    The Engineers and Public Contractors Pension Fund (TSMEDE) found itself in the spotlight over the last few days as a result of being the major shareholder in Attica Bank, which faced a number of issues related to corporate governance and lending activities, according to an investigation carried out

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  7. Self-employed paying less for social security contributions, Labour ministry reports
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    -employed workers and reports of such workers deregistering from the status of “self-employed” en masse... Engineers and Public Contractors Pension Fund (TSMEDE) fund compared to 64.2 percent in 2017

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  8. Coalition's moves on public sector hirings under scrutiny
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    Minister Pavlos Polakis said that the government has replaced contractors in catering, cleaning

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  9. Minister discounts lockdowns, vaccine mandate extension amid Covid surge
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    limited private sector activities. As such, it would have been a shot in the arm for the contractors

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  10. Tsipras berates govt over treatment of pensioners

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    . However, the introduction of almost 500 private-sector contractors does not seem to have contributed

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