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Slow pace of civil service evaluation, Hellenikon deal add to review agenda
PoliticsGreek PoliticsSeveral areas of potential tension between the government and Greece’s lenders have emerged ahead of the third review. Athens is still struggling to find a way to conduct a performance evaluation in the public sector after civil servants’ unions instruc...
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Minister's clash with catering sector highlights pitfalls ahead as pandemic squeezes economy
PoliticsGreek Politicsas the coronavirus has knocked the 2021 budget off track after just the first month of the year... to Kathimerini, the food service sector – one of the worst hit by the lockdowns – is poised to seek compensation... to direct some of the extra relief funds it is currently working on amassing towards the food service
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Androulakis hopes surveillance ruling will lead to embarrassment for government
PoliticsGreek Politicsto request information on his surveillance by the national intelligence service. Androulakis claims... an official briefing on the reasons provided by the intelligence service EYP to allow them to eavesdrop... embarrassing the government and the prime minister to whom the intelligence service reports directly. PM
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Refugee influx pushes Tsipras towards crisis nexus
Agora. Arrivals by sea will drop off but there will still be great pressure to register and house the refugees... is appointed to the Asylum Service and First Reception service; put in place an effective return system... set up a service to manage these resources. If Tsipras cannot put his own house in order
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Newsletter 266 -18/09/2020
was a reminder of the way in which Mitsotakis’s premiership can be knocked off course by non-political...” has paid off as Turkey withdrew the Oruc Reis research vessel and aides to the two country’s leaders... efforts to clear all state arrears by mid-2021. On the macro front, the Commission maintains its latest
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S&P raises Greek rating to 'BB-' on reduced fiscal risks, lifting of capital controls
Economybuffer that according to the agency’s estimates covers the central government's debt-service... conditions are met. However, the agency notes that based on experience from Spain, Ireland, Slovenia... anticompetitive behaviour, particularly in the services sector. The business-friendly reforms would enhance
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Health at focus of government priorities as PM presses ahead with reform agenda
PoliticsGreek Politicson the promise to improve citizens’ experience of public services, including a pledge to modernise.... In response, New Democracy said they planned to draft in support from the army and the fire service to speed... reform as a cover to privatise public health services, which they warn will effectively bring an end
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Newsletter 458 - 04/04/2025
in a position where he will be expected to announce pay increases in the police, coast guard and fire service... that Greece would experience serious second-round effects even before the latest tariffs were... rises for the coastguard, fire and police services. As a result, Mitsotakis was forced to commit
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Newsletter 172 -27/07/2018
by the heads of the police and fire service at a press conference on Thursday evening as they explained... is that the news conference was an attempt to absolve the government (and the emergency service... package of measures” includes one-off payments of 5,000 euros to families and 8,000 euros
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Newsletter 101 - 23/12/2016
– even though eurozone finance ministers signed off on the measures at the December 5 Eurogroup... their concerns about the Greek government’s handouts and seeking pledges that these were one-off... to service their loans as a result of the recession and lack of liquidity. The sectors that displayed
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