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Current account deficit deepens in Mar, reaching 6.45 bln for Q1
EconomyMacroeconomypartly offset by an improvement in the services balance. March saw another deep current account.... The travel balance showed a surplus of 77.1 million euros, from last year’s figure of just 8.3 million.... Travel receipts came to 197.6 million euros, from 39 million euros in March last year, and 91.5 million
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Parties locked in tug of war over troubled universities
Societywas built upon by subsequent governments and extended with a strategy which saw the creation of numerous... of the Diamantopoulou law criticised what it saw as a deep politicisation of decision-making on all... for inviting police onto campuses for fear of appearing heavy-handed. Documented instances of serious
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Mitsotakis pledges more tax cuts in 2020 amid police violence claims
PoliticsGreek PoliticsWednesday night’s vote on the 2020 budget, which saw the economic plan approved by just the 158 New... that the government saw as a key part of the confidence-building exercise vis-à-vis foreign investors. Staikouras.... However, this has prompted accusations of heavy-handed behaviour, which SYRIZA and other opposition
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Evia flooding reopens government's summer wounds
PoliticsGreek PoliticsIliopoulos accused the ruling conservatives of being unprepared for heavy rain even though experts and locals... outlets and even blogs. It was a move that the opposition saw as a thinly-disguised attempt by ND..., which saw Greece drop five places to 70th out of 180 countries. New Democracy’s response
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Tsipras resigns, paves way for leadership contest at SYRIZA as left looks to regroup
PoliticsGreek Politicswill not take part. This ends speculation about what Tsipras might do following two heavy election... a traumatic few weeks. After running a poor campaign for the first election on May 21, the leftists saw... and still saw him as a toxic figure that will not be able to gain the trust of the centrist voters
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Response to "Medea" brings storm of opposition criticism as govt sets sights on summer
PoliticsGreek Politicsto the electricity networks. On Tuesday, heavy snowfall in Athens stopped all overground public transport... as a destination when travel resumes, while Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has been promoting... citizens of the two countries to travel freely between them, has also reportedly met with resistance
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First-wave champion Greece stumbles at vaccine roll-out
Agoratesting in schools and workplaces, and the requirement of Covid status certificates for travel... and an over-reliance on the top-heavy bureaucratic structures which traditionally characterise..., the government’s gamble on opening up the borders and lifting restrictions on interregional travel and most
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Newsletter 253 -05/06/2020
up air travel to Greece was illustrated on Tuesday, when a dozen passengers on a flight from Doha in Qatar tested positive for coronavirus, the biggest cluster of travel-related cases since March..., classified as over five years old, saw their prices increase by 6.3 percent while new apartments saw price
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Newsletter 297 - 21/05/2021
not appear to be reflected in countries from where tourists normally travel to Greece in large numbers... quietly revised down its expectations for travel receipts from its initial forecast of 50-50 pct of 2019... in Q4 2020. Old apartments, classified as over five years old, saw their prices increase by 3.4
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Tourism numbers continue to worsen as worries grow over second Covid-19 wave
EconomyFeaturesruns up to May 2020, showed that revenues in these sectors saw a collapse of up to 61 percent... advised its citizens to avoid all non-essential travel to the country, including its islands. More... tend to travel throughout the country to their villages and towns of origin, creating the potential
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