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Government U-turns again to tighten Covid measures over Christmas
PoliticsGreek Politicshours earlier. The new measures, which come into effect at 6 am on Friday and remain in place until... considered until the new year. The New Democracy government faced strong criticism from the opposition... of the downward trend in infections in the last few days. Wednesday saw the second consecutive
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Govt looks to tweak relief in anticipation of record Covid infections, new inflation high
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the rules, it now looks likely that it will have to extend the duration of most of them at least until... there will be no official decision until after the next scheduled meeting of the expert advisory committee... of living. While last week saw the introduction of a new scheme to subsidise energy costs, price
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Newsletter 332 - 18/03/2022
pay out 110 million euros to small businesses towards covering energy price increases up until April..., the pandemic. Until late last year, Greece’s poor performance in terms of containing the virus and the high... over the last few quarters, which saw the stock of main pensions applications drop from the high
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Speculation about snap polls after summer revived by PM's US trip
PoliticsGreek Politicswill opt to call elections after the summer rather than wait until the end of his government’s four... recently saw strong turnouts for internal voting procedures and Mitsotakis may have seen this as a warning... would be better off waiting until next year, when Greece is expected to regain the investment grade
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PM broaches demographics issue, stresses role of migration
PoliticsGreek Politics. The economic crisis of the previous decade, which saw birth rates fall, emigration among young people rise.... But this has, until now, only led to a very loose debate about the issue and little discussion... there until 6 p.m. on weekdays. He also pledged that more gynaecologists and paediatricians would
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Rising bond yields a concern, but not an immediate fiscal problem
Economyand a yield of 1.83 pct, doubling last year’s inaugural 10-year bond. The PDMA saw a window... the majority of Greece’s outstanding debt, is not due to start until next year with 1.74 billion... rate of the EFSF loans has been deferred for 10 years until 2022 and the ESM loans have rates close
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Newsletter 349 - 02/09/2022
to 25.1, while PASOK saw an increase of 1 point to 12.1. There was little change among the other... million euros until the end of the year. This assumption was soon overtaken by events, as wholesale... budget might have to intervene in the volume of more than 3 billion euros until the end of the year
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Election date seen hanging in balance as PM weighs pros and cons
PoliticsGreek PoliticsUntil Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announces the date of the elections this year, speculation... ruffling the church’s feathers, another option would be to hold the election on April 2, or to wait until... and calling for more active hydrocarbon exploration. Given that New Democracy already saw some of its more
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Our cruel summer
Agoraas rushing to board a ferry. It is often a feature of human nature, though, to ignore risks until... accommodation in the Koutsochero camp, which had housed refugees until the storm arrived. It was Greeks... in this summer’s devastating wildfires. Once more, the fragility of our existence was revealed to us. We saw how
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Newsletter 81 - 08/07/2016
by another 2.5 billion to 58.6 billion euros until July 21. Since mid-August, the ELA limit has been trimmed... the supermajority it is looking for hanging in the balance until then. If the government can secure 200 out..., that is until 11 June 2046. According to various media reports in Greece, HRADF wants
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