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EU Council boosts recovery fund hopes, falls short on Turkey
PoliticsGreek Politicsbegin. Their response to the failure to move forward with sanctions was that the EU makes one step... Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis should not accept anything less. The Council’s decision to hold off
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Current account deficit increases to 767.4 mln in Oct as service surplus shrinks
EconomyMacroeconomyshowed a surplus of 507.9 million, nearly one third of last year’s 1.44 billion. Travel receipts were... to offset the precipitous fall in the services balance that is worse off by 13.57 billion euros. The total
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Epiphany crowds strengthen churchs's hand and intensify lockdown dilemma
PoliticsGreek Politicsfollowing a week of strict measures. A stand-off between the Church of Greece and the government over... outside churches. Summing up the situation in a radio interview, one bishop said that “the church
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PM hopes for return to normality by summer, but vaccine progress remains slow
PoliticsGreek Politicsvirtual Davos meeting, Mitsotakis said “one can envision a return to normal by late spring, early... by the end of the summer. In his remarks, Mitsotakis shrugged off the focus on daily vaccination
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Newsletter 284 - 12/02/2021
population had received at least one jab. More than 350,000 people had been vaccinated once, while... lockdown measures, they were considering people laid off as still employed if the duration
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Pandemic raises economic pressure as govt hopes for imminent relief
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat the opposition party is playing a duplicitous game by encouraging protests on the one hand, but blaming...%. The survey suggests that the public has largely welcomed the government’s stance on the stand-off
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New political clash over police violence, but ND seems unperturbed
PoliticsGreek Politicsto protest his prison transfer. One ruling party MP went as far as naming the man and the anti-establishment... suggested that 62.9% of Greeks backed the government over its stance in the stand-off
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Newsletter 288 - 12/03/2021
some protestors pulling a policeman off his motorcycle and beating him. The police suggested... and a deferred tax asset write down also of 160 million euros. Adjusted for one-offs, Eurobank said
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Mitsotakis defends pandemic handling, denies snap election plans
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAs opposition criticism mounts on all fronts, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has offered a defence of his government’s handling of the pandemic and the economy, while seeking one more time... four-year term. Whether this kills off speculation about snap polls later this year remains to be seen
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Newsletter 293 - 16/04/2021
, this one also suggests that despite the wear-and-tear of the last few months, the ruling... these businesses off the ground following the pandemic. The aim was clearly to present SYRIZA as the party
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