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Government hopes new affordable homes bill can help alleviate housing pressure
PoliticsGreek Politicsspeculative buying, particularly in central Athens, where entire apartment blocks have been converted... In Thessaloniki, nominal rents for apartments up to 80 sqm reached 10.55 euros per Sqm, surging 17.6
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Loan and deposit rates edge down in May but remain above euro area average
EconomyMacroeconomyof the average rate on new loans by 36 bps in April, there was a reversal in May with the average loan rate contracting by 36 bps, thus falling back to March levels. The sharp drop in May is attributed.... Overall, the drop in the average rates on new deposits by 10 bps and on new loans by 36 bps, led
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Opposition set to back same-sex marriage bill, easing passage through Parliament
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor the legislation. This means that Mitsotakis can count on 36 votes from SYRIZA and 11 from New Left, unless... voters and 36 pct of those who vote for SYRIZA. However, opinion is split on whether changing the law will have a positive or negative impact on state-funded universities. Of those questioned, 36 pct
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Newsletter 16 - 20/02/2015
in his cabinet, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras chose former New Democracy Interior Minister Prokopis... government, with Pavlopoulos as Interior Minister, issued a presidential decree that allowed fixed-term
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Will Tsipras move to centre stage to secure deal with lenders?
PoliticsGreek Politicswithin the government, even leading to thoughts of removing Panousis’s portfolio from the Interior.... Interior Minister Nikos Voutsis and Alternate Minister for European Affairs Nikos Hountis
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Launch of new movement highlights fragmentation of Greek centre-left
PoliticsGreek PoliticsFormer Interior Minister Yiannis Ragoussis is set to launch a new centre-left movement on Wednesday, highlighting the fragmentation in this part of the Greek political spectrum. With PASOK... to liberalise the taxi sector while he was interior, and then transport, minister between 2009 and 2011. He
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Bond issue decision expected as clock ticks down
PoliticsGreek Politicsin September 2015, when then-Interior Minister Panayiotis Kouroublis asked local authorities to list... Accounting Office because of fiscal concerns. It has been revived under the current Interior Minister Panos
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Tsipras facing decision over timing of vote on Prespes Agreement
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat the Interior Ministry is asking for an extra 60 million euros from the Finance Ministry to carry out... to discuss election issues. Interior Minister Alexis Haritsis has reportedly stepped up his meetings
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PM seeks to douse snap election talk, points to October polls
PoliticsGreek Politicsfuelled on Monday by an amendment submitted to Parliament by the Interior Ministry. It aims... a parliamentary majority. The rule had been introduced in 2014 but the Interior Ministry argues
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Could Greece's immigration reforms have an impact on upcoming elections?
Societygranted “skyrocketed” from 14,178 to 33,487. Interior Minister Alexis Haritsis responded by describing... inhabitants in 2017. The Interior Ministry publishes more detailed statistics on citizenship
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