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Mitsotakis mixes old hands and technocrats to stamp reformist bent on cabinet
PoliticsGreek Politics-on experience dealing with the banking sector of George Zavvos, one of three deputy finance ministers...’s pro-business credentials. Perhaps the most prominent role given to one of the “technocrats
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New team at Finance Ministry tasked with familiar old juggling act
PoliticsGreek Politics. Theodoros Skylakakis, the deputy minister responsible for government spending, is one of the non... the party since 2013. Mitsotakis’s may have made one of his shrewdest choices in appointing the highly
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Newsletter 214 -12/07/2019
Skylakakis, the deputy minister responsible for government spending, is one of the non-parliamentarians... which Mitsotakis himself hails from. Mitsotakis’s may have made one of his shrewdest choices
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Talks to begin on plan to rescue PPC from dire financial straits
EconomyOne of the first orders of business for the new government is to tackle the beleaguered state-controlled energy company, the Public Power Corporation (PPC). Reports suggest that representatives from... in February collapsed. During the initial process, PPC received one binding offer for the Melitis unit
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Budget primary surplus at 382 mln in June
EconomyMacroeconomyfigures to cover the one-off payments related to law 4575/2018 that were not completed in 2018 (in non-allocated expenditures). The MoF said that these one-off payments that took place until June 2019
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New Parliament sworn in as Mitsotakis picks top civil servants, maintains status quo with church
PoliticsGreek Politicsand MeRA25 were sworn in on Wednesday morning. Just over one in three (112) are serving as MPs... Tsouvalas was one of those. Tsouvalas previously served as chief of police from February 2016 until last
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Tourism responsible for up to 30.9 pct of GDP in 2018, study suggests
Featuresas one of the central pillars of the Greek economy when direct and indirect contributions from tourism..., the study showed that in 2008, tourism expenditure for trips of more than one overnight stay was 3.87
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Continuity and priorities
Agoraparliamentary representative, he stood up to neo-Nazi Golden Dawn on several occasions and was one... was encouraged that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was one of the first foreign leaders to reach out
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Preventative medicine, support for vulnerable form backbone of ND healthcare package
PoliticsGreek Politicsto their various departments. In his speech, he said that one of the main focuses of the new approach..., and developing new services to turn the system from a hospital-centered one to anthropocentric
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Budget primary surplus confirmed at 381 mln in June
EconomyMacroeconomyincorporated into 2019 figures to cover the one-off payments related to law 4575/2018 that were not completed in 2018 (in non-allocated expenditures). The MoF said that these one-off payments that took
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