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Medics highlight weaknesses in frontline care as parties debate emergency measures
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government has announced it will step up checks on highways and at ports and airports ahead of Greek Orthodox Easter next Sunday to ensure it keeps a lid on the coronavirus outbreak, which has yet to test Greece’s health service to the full. The relatively limited number of Covid-19 cases
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ND focussed on keeping coronavirus numbers down in build-up to Greek Easter
PoliticsGreek Politicsas reminders that the danger is not over yet. In an interview with Sunday’s Ethnos newspaper
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PM offers vision of stronger post-pandemic Greece, as ND reaps approval in polls
PoliticsGreek PoliticsIn a televised address at the start of Holy Week, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis warned the Greek people that “the pandemic is subsiding, but the war is not won yet”, and called for the continued observance of social distancing measures in the run-up to the most celebrated festival
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Snap election scenarios circulate as ND's pandemic response fuels surge in polls
PoliticsGreek Politicsits election defeat last summer and Alexis Tsipras’s rebuilding project has yet to be seen
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Coronavirus to delay much of privatisation plan
EconomyFeatures, though a timeline is as yet unavailable. Hellinikon The main privatisation which continues to remain
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Will the Covid-19 crisis undermine the EU Green Deal? A view from Europe's periphery
Agorapackages towards a green transition. And yet, dig behind the rhetoric and the dissonance between
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Reshuffle speculation rebuffed as Greece launches third stage of lockdown relaxation
PoliticsGreek Politicshas not yet clarified if primary schools will re-open, a move that most Greeks appear to oppose
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Tsipras struggles to revive and repackage SYRIZA
PoliticsGreek PoliticsOpposition leader Alexis Tsipras is still struggling to find his footing since last year’s elections and the much-advertised shift towards the centre-left, with the aim of attracting a greater number of voters, has not yet materialised for SYRIZA. Opinion polls continue to show the left-wing party
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BoG highlights how Covid-19 compounds legacy issues and structural challenges
Economyinvestment gap. It adds that Greece is yet to resolve some of its deep structural issues of low
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More flights land at airports, but tourism expectations remain grounded
PoliticsGreek Politicssatisfied with the government, while the opposition has yet to make its mark. Carried out
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