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Greece moves step closer to investment grade as Fitch ups rating by one notch to 'BB+'
Economyanalysts expect the investment grade, which the government has set as a so-called “national goal” for 2023... before the national polls set for late spring, or early summer, is unlikely.
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Machinations intensify as announcement of election date approaches
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe Greek media appears convinced that Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is set to call elections for April 9 as a number of factors point to the countdown to polling day already having started..., for which 650 million euros has been set aside, and a one-off stipend for pensioners who did
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Moody's keeps Greece three notches from investment grade, improves outlook on back of growth potential
Economywith following the fiscal commitments of sound policies and higher nominal growth, this will set the debt burden on a downwards path over the next few years. Moody’s joins the rest of the agencies that have set
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PASOK's Androulakis eyes kingmaker role as margin between main players shrinks
PoliticsGreek PoliticsWith opinion polls showing no clear winner in the upcoming elections, the leader of Greece’s third largest political party set out his terms lending support in a potential coalition government. Nikos... system which will apply in the elections set to be held in May. A second vote under an enhanced
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Mitsotakis sets May 21 election date, eyes opposition MPs as potential allies
PoliticsGreek Politicsa second vote is inevitable, but that the first election will set the tone and decide who... Nikos Androulakis has already set some difficult conditions and the relationship between the two
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Tsipras pitches SYRIZA election manifesto as basis for progressive coalition
PoliticsGreek Politicsset out by the main opposition party consisted of specific actions, as well as bigger legislative initiatives which Tsipras said was designed to boost the economy, strengthen social cohesion and set
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Government launches new round of legislation with diaspora vote bill
PoliticsGreek PoliticsHaving set out his government’s policy goals for the next four years, and sailed through Saturday’s confidence vote, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s focus is on the new administration’s first... government’s policy agenda, during which Mitsotakis set the ideological tone for his second term, but also
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Spotlight falls on public hirings as PM pledges more health staff
PoliticsGreek Politicspublic sector hirings would be set out in September. However, he insisted that New Democracy will keep... purpose. The university police was set up during the government’s previous term. The 1,060-member force
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Mitsotakis faces down critics over handling of forest fires
PoliticsGreek Politicseasing the requirement for Greeks voting from abroad looks set to pass with more than the required..., looks set to pass with 208 votes out of 300. Aside from the substance of the bill, the debate gave some
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Fires cast growing shadow as new shipwreck probe is announced
PoliticsGreek PoliticsParliament was set to vote on the government’s economic bill on Wednesday in the shadow of the ongoing forest fires, which also claimed their first lives this summer. MPs were due to cast... measures that Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis set out on the campaign trail. These include the 150-euro
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