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Impending lockdown decision highlights cabinet tensions, casts unflattering spotlight on experts
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government’s messaging over Covid-19 has fallen into disarray, as the looming threat... by the government’s Covid advisory committee, and was succeeded by a series of seemingly ad hoc corrections... closures, according to the minister. Kikilias’s cabinet colleague, Development Minister Adonis
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Banks tout ambitious NPE plans to return to European mainstream
EconomyBankingGreece’s banks have started what was set to be a difficult year for them by winning plaudits... week Moody’s raised the outlook for Greek banks to “positive” on prospects of further reducing... in 2021-2022. Speaking at the Bank of Greece’s annual shareholders’ meeting on Tuesday, the central bank’s
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ND courts youth vote with targeted pandemic relief, recovery schemes
PoliticsGreek Politics’s 24.5 pct, with third party KINAL trailing at 7 pct. Mitsotakis has gained a percentage point.... SYRIZA’s Alexis Tsipras dropped a point to 26 pct, falling behind the 27 pct of respondents who chose... in the surprise boost to domestic confidence delivered by Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias’s public confrontation
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Late May Day rallies highlight divides in left and labour movement
PoliticsGreek Politics, Mitsotakis used it to illustrate his government’s willingness to take political risks in order to implement reforms. Mitsotakis contrasted ND’s political ownership of labour policy to the externally mandated reforms associated with Greece’s bailout, and argued that the legislation was there to protect
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SYRIZA lays out alternative vision to counter government's RRF plan
PoliticsGreek PoliticsSYRIZA’s alternative vision for deploying the funds at an event on Monday. The leftist opposition party were quick to condemn New Democracy’s plan, codenamed “Greece 2.0”, when it was unveiled... corporations. SYRIZA’s alternative proposition, dubbed “Greece+”, claims to be more socially inclusive
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Parties gear up for confrontation over labour bill
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government’s proposed labour reforms will be at the heart of a political battle in Greece this week as the draft law moves to Parliament’s full assembly ahead of a vote that is likely to take place on Wednesday. Last week’s general strike has added to the tension over the bill and reports
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Newsletter 301 - 18/06/2021
Labour reforms adopted amid outcry PM dismisses opposition’s united criticism, portrays unionists as stuck in past One of the landmark bills of this government’s term in office was passed this week... formula to attack centre-left KINAL, describing leader Fofi Gennimata’s address as “a crescendo
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Delta variant shifts goalposts for tourism season and vaccinations
PoliticsGreek Politicsreiterated the government’s hope that tourism would be able to fetch half the revenues in 2021 as it did... to allay French and German concerns about Greece’s policy of allowing free entry to Russian visitors... further undermines the Greek tourism season’s prospects. The UK is Greece’s second largest market
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Pandemic surge creates fresh political and economic doubts
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government’s hopes of emphasising its political dominance and other achievements as it reaches... on Tuesday at the Prime Minister’s Office, where the main topic of discussion was how best to clamp... on the government’s plans. New Democracy had been hoping this would be the moment to leave the virus behind
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Newsletter 306 - 23/07/2021
, autumn The week’s political developments were dominated by Covid again, culminating in Parliament... vaccine numbers and build the wall of immunity, SYRIZA senses that the centre-right party’s handling... support and if this season proves nearly as bad as in 2020, the Finance Ministry’s fiscal plan may have
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