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Newsletter 279 -13/11/2020
Mitsotakis said in a TV interview in December. At the time, the premier admitted that the lockdown... has worsened substantially by 59.5 points. Retail trade dropped by 7.8 point month-on-month.... Interior Minister Takis Thedorikakos was also left out of the new line-up to be replaced by Agriculture
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Newsletter 60 - 29/01/2016
euros in Q3, down by more than 1 billion from last year. The fall is mostly due to an 8 percent... point is contested. The sheer scale of the refugee influx last year (more than 850,000 arrived... Europe. The other point concerns what more Greece can do once refugees and migrants arrive on its
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TV permit auction boosts Greek coffers but questions linger
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the auction result is that Skai TV, with which the governing parties have had a long-running... Marinakis, a shipowner who is also chairman of Olympiakos football club, to the TV market is likely..., the government suggested it could get 340 million euros in revenues from the TV licence tender
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After joy of TV permit auction, Tsipras faces programme restrictions
PoliticsGreek Politicswith the representatives of the four firms that were successful in last week’s TV licence auction... Nikos Pappas, who has overseen the whole process of regulating the TV market. It is clear, however... disposal. The prime minister, however, will want to maximise the political benefit from the TV tender
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After TV permits setback, scrutiny of State Minister Pappas intensifies
PoliticsGreek Politicsin the wake of the failed TV permit tender that he oversaw. It was reported recently that Pappas travelled... that the government will launch a new effort to regulate the TV sector. In an interview with Le Figaro newspaper... licencing procedure. In a TV interview in Greece on Tuesday night, Pappas welcomed New Democracy proposing
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OECD sees economy shrinking by 8 to 9.8 pct, depending on whether virus returns
EconomyMacroeconomythat GDP will fall by up to 8 percent in 2020 under a single-hit scenario, with a recovery of 4.5... as high as 20.4 percent under a double-hit scenario. Private consumption is expected to fall by 8
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Fallout from Ukraine war being fed into calculations about next general elections
PoliticsGreek Politicsaccompanied by another change to the electoral system. Speaking to Mega TV on Saturday, Alternate... for their first 25 percentage points of support and then an extra seat for each 0.5 point above... fall by 1 point since January, down to 31 pct. Backing for SYRIZA is also down by 1 percentage point
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SYRIZA under fire for TV permit tender, tinkering with watchdog
PoliticsGreek Politics. The dispute over the TV licenses has been brewing for some time as the opposition suspects SYRIZA is trying to favour friendly media groups. The coalition counters that previous governments have allowed TV
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TV permit auction drags on as coalition tries to draw line under ELSTAT controversy
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe auction for four broadcasting licenses on Greece’s national digital TV network dragged on into a third day on Thursday, with the results expected by the evening. Originally, the government had... from its efforts to regulate the TV broadcasting market, the government seems to be trying
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TV permit tender triggers turmoil in Greek judiciary, questions about gov't role
PoliticsGreek PoliticsTwo issues that have been thorns in the government’s side in recent weeks: The TV licence tender and friction in the judicial system combined on Wednesday to pose a fresh problem to the coalition... there was no chance of the court deeming the TV auction to be unconstitutional, even though
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