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Mitsotakis promises 'new normality,' lines up tax cuts straight away
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has set out his government’s priorities for the next four years... economic crisis behind and grab the opportunity it has to grow and improve. Mitsotakis spoke... Thessaloniki Expo would be redeveloped so it has a year-round urban as well as business use. Mitsotakis
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Newsletter 223 -11/10/2019
. Nevertheless, for the time being the government has achieved its political goal of showing..., the government has achieved its political goal of showing that it intends to live up to its tax cut promises... “evidence from the last 30 years” shows that reducing corporate taxes has minimal impact on growth
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Govt mulls tighter controls on movement, seeks to boost health supplies and Covid-19 tests
PoliticsGreek Politics, the head of civil protection Nikos Hardalias has taken to describing the hunt for supplies... operates Piraeus Port. The government of the UAE has also donated a planeload of supplies. Greek... smaller batches of protective equipment on a voluntary basis. The health ministry has given assurances
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Concern over ICU capacity, support for business generate pressure for ND
PoliticsGreek Politicsspaces for the appropriate treatment of patients. The government has already ordered 80 percent... believes there has been an increase in spread among pupils, as underlined by the decision to close down senior high schools in Thessaloniki. The left-wing party has criticised the government since
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Newsletter 289 - 19/03/2021
interpreted as a sign that some Greeks are growing restless because of a lockdown that has been in place... and deaths. On Thursday, the number of intubated patients reached 645 – the highest it has been this year... and opposition in Parliament on Friday has seen new battle lines drawn around the “law and order” agenda
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Govt baulks at more holiday restrictions to stem spread of Omicron variant
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe unvaccinated. Mitsotakis said that since the start of the pandemic the government has provided 80... that there has been little uptake since free voluntary self-testing was first rolled out this month... to a surge in infections as it has done elsewhere, the policy reflexes have been restrained
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Govt readies targeted support for energy bills in bid to contain cost of living crisis
PoliticsGreek Politicspandemic support. Despite a recent dip, Greece has registered the highest prices for wholesale... and 76 in Germany. The government has been taking some political credit for an agreement between... in a few weeks”, adding that “what we can do is support households”. Opposition SYRIZA has also been
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Govt pins hopes on lifting Covid restrictions in March as experts tread more cautious path
PoliticsGreek Politicsin favour of an imminent easing of national restrictions across the bloc. The decision for Athens has..., while their proposal to subsidise energy costs for industry has been denied by Brussels... time in several days that the daily figure has fallen below 100. The Covid death rate in Greece has
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Newsletter 339 - 27/05/2022
of 0.5 points taking it to 20.3 pct. In third place, PASOK-KINAL has dropped 2.6 points since April... of the support it has lost over the last few months as the cost-of-living crisis has gripped Greek households... over day-to-day issues such as energy costs rather than foreign policy. ND has a distinct advantage
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Government faces backlash over emergency energy package
PoliticsGreek Politics” for being unable to afford even a short holiday. While the rising cost of living has been named as the top concern for Greek voters for some time, this has not posed a serious challenge to New Democracy’s dominance for as long as the opposition has remained divided and mired in introspection. While
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