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SYRIZA maintains pressure over Covid treatment, media handouts
PoliticsGreek Politics, the opposition party’s spokesman Nassos Iliopoulos argued that given the Covid death rate per million citizens... factors came into the equation. He said that each outlet’s reach and brand safety were taken... was taken by his company as the newspaper’s coverage at the time was not compatible with the campaign
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Fitch improves outlook to positive, sees investment grade hinging on fiscal performance and banks
EconomyFitch got the schedule of rating reviews in the new year underway with an upgrade of Greece’s... to upgrade Greece’s rating to ‘BB’ back in January 2020, just weeks before the pandemic broke and has... to an upgrade. Moody’s stands a notch behind, with a rating of ‘Ba3’, having upgraded Greece in November 2020
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The case for a general government balance sheet
Agorabalance sheet. One reason for this effort rests in the observation that today’s balance sheet... the Maastricht debts. Thus, the Maastricht rules only look at a partial corner of a government’s... government balance sheet. For a fuller reading of the plans of the political system with people’s assets
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Rising yields, market turbulence limit government's fiscal options
Economy’s. At the end of 2019, Greece’s public debt was 331 billion euros at 181 pct of GDP. It closed 2021... in the post-PEPP regular QE, a tall order given the ECB’s legal constraints. It started to become clear.... From the low of 0.53 pct for the 10-year benchmark in August last year, the benchmark’s yield
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ND seeks to capitalise on divergent views over defence procurements
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAlthough there was broad approval in Parliament on Tuesday for Greece’s purchase of an extra six... by Turkey in the Aegean and had been recommended by Greece’s military chiefs. “We have the right to take... suggested that New Democracy is looking at ways to further strengthen Greece’s defence capabilities
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KINAL leader gains confidence as ND ratings wane
PoliticsGreek Politics’s resurgence as a major political force of the centre-left. Since being elected leader in December... Democracy may not be able to win the next elections outright. He argued that Mitsotakis’s willingness... to reveal his intentions, but he gave no more away on this occasion, saying only that he views Mitsotakis’s
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Strike acts as focal point for cost-of-living frustration despite higher energy subsidies
PoliticsGreek Politicsof new right-wing movement by an ousted New Democracy MP. Wednesday’s strike was called by the country’s largest union, GSEE, demanding, among other things, higher wages, more public sector hirings... consumer. Wednesday’s strike served as a focal point for the opposition parties to step up
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Tsipras strengthens hold on leadership at fractious SYRIZA conference
PoliticsGreek Politicson a number of constitutional reforms as well as to elect its leadership on May 15. Tsipras’s re... support for young couples. Finally, Tsipras promised that the party would work to change Greece’s... directed at KINAL led by Nikos Androulakis, though some believe that an alliance with Yanis Varoufakis’s
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With focus on energy, Athens hopes for boost from Macron re-election
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPresident bodes well for his government’s hopes of further progress within the European Union... developments. Greek government sources told the local media that Macron’s victory is “good news.... Mitsotakis values highly Macron’s support in Greece’s disputes with Turkey and sees the defence
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Media freedom concerns continue to bedevil Mitsotakis govt as EC takes note
PoliticsGreek Politicsan open letter to the organisation criticising the report’s methodology. International organisation... bells about the government’s handling of the media in Greece. Government officials have consistently... of spyware on the same journalist’s phone. The government has once again denied that it engages
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