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Newsletter 423 - 17/05/2024
Siljanovska-Davkova, refused to use the country’s constitutional name during her swearing-in ceremony... led by the VMRO-DPMNE and took 69 pct of the vote in last Wednesday’s runoff ballot. Her actions... Siljanovska-Davkova’s decision not to use her country’s constitutional name as “illegal and inexcusable
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Rental subsidy rekindles political debate over housing crisis
PoliticsGreek Politicsfell to 35.2 pct in the second ballot. The Interior Ministry believes the new system will ensure... in Greece. PASOK estimates that 40,000 homes could be made available over a 5-year period on low rent... properties held by banks and bad loan services as part of a push for these homes, estimated to number
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Preparing for a new normal in German politics
Agoraand Chancellor since November 2005, announced her gradual retreat from German politics. First, she... that her chancellorship will come to an end in September 2021 when new federal elections are due in Germany. Provided she reaches that target date with her controversial ‘Grand Coalition’ between the CDU
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Farmers’ boycott scuppers PM meeting as Karystianou fleshes out political vision
PoliticsGreek Politics’ representative Maria Karystianou has shed a little more light on her plans to launch a new political... of certain political actors to her decision, noting that some appeared unsettled by the prospect of her entering politics. She insisted the initiative would not be defined by traditional ideological
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Newsletter 179 -19/10/2018
and local votes. GDP revision shows slight improvement Second estimate strikes positive note as govt submits draft budget Greece’s Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) issued its second estimate of the national... regulation of the European System of National and Regional Accounts ESA 2010. The first estimate for 2017
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Newsletter 97 - 25/11/2016
cooperation between one-time rivals PASOK and New Democracy but Gennimata prefers to keep her options open. There has even been talk of her holding discussions with former leader George Papandreou about... (440 million). On the expenditure front, the budget estimates net savings by social security
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Newsletter 286 - 26/02/2021
’s record on handling the #MeToo phenomenon and standing by Mendoni against mounting calls for her... that she had performed her role admirably and had delivered many important cultural projects, while.... On a positive note, the impact of the RRF is yet to be factored in in any growth estimates. Fiscally
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Gov't under scrutiny over relationship with judicial system
PoliticsForeign Policylegal action last month against an Athens University professor who criticised her in a blog post. The academic, Stavros Tsakyrakis labeled her “naive” and accused her of engaging in politicking as for writing to her colleagues in other European Union countries asking them to urge the country’s
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Newsletter 148 -26/01/2018
, Interior Minister Panos Skourletis said that Kammenos’s position, and his demand for a referendum... being most affected by the demonstration. Soon after an estimated 90,000 people gathered... horizon.” From January to August 2018, Greece’s financing needs are estimated at 10.7 billion euros
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Vital economic legislation lined up as ND seeks compromise over diaspora vote
PoliticsGreek PoliticsInterior Minister Takis Theodorikakos sent a new proposal on Friday. The breakthrough came after SYRIZA... were able to reach an agreement, including over a fiscal gap that the lenders estimated to be more than... prepare to share out the additional surplus from this year’s budget, which has been estimated at 380
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