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  1. ND under fire over fast-track legislation, pandemic contracts as SYRIZA sleaze claims surface
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    , and the government’s apparent reluctance to publish it, has become a focus of political controversy in recent days... in the work of the financial regulator. Folli Follie has been under investigation since evidence of fraud... containing pandemic measures alongside several urgent amendments turned into another rancorous

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  2. Government on mission to manage expectations in anticipation of tough winter
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    a part in dampening the earlier optimism, as Greece succeeded in gaining a partial exemption but has... crisis are being addressed. The PM has also let it be known that he intends to be out and about mixing... authorities would be asked to take a set of measures to immediately reduce energy use, including

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  3. Finance Ministry costs new support package, but questions remain over electricity subsidies
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    Economy

    presented by the PM has an allocation of 3.65 billion euros of permanent measures and 1.85 billion euros... for electricity bill subsidies, although it has several sizable interventions like the “inflation cheque... billion euros of fiscal measures for 2022. The minister said that the actual fiscal interventions

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  4. Parties get salty over cheese prices as cost of living debate heats up
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    has proposed a package of measures it argues would help bring down prices. They include capping...The clash between the government and the opposition over the cost of living has reached new... as part of a package of measures aimed at easing prices for consumers. During the debate

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  5. New data shows 6.2 pct of Greek labour force in gray area
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    underpaid or inactive and without income as a result of the severe recession that has devastated.... According to standard definitions and measures of unemployment, a population is classified in three... labour force because by the standard definition they are defined as inactive and are not measured

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  6. Eurogroup agrees on significant debt relief measures for Greece

    EconomyProgramme

    to be repaid in full by 2024. Greece has repayments totalling 4 billion euros to make to the Fund

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  7. Greece prepares reforms list, eyes solution to liquidity shortage

    EconomyProgramme

    and improvements in the collection mechanism. One of the issues the government has committed so far... and basic goods and services. Currently, Greece has two main VAT rates, at 13 and 23 percent, a reduced... would commit to implement. Raising revenues According to Kathimerini newspaper, measures aiming

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  8. Lowest income groups in Greece saw wages drop and taxes rise most during crisis

    Society

    and austerity policies on incomes, inequality and poverty in Greece has found. Entitled Greece: solidarity... has witnessed growing poverty and total pauperisation of a substantial part of Greek society as a result of the crisis and austerity measures, both in terms of absolute and relative poverty

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  9. MPs vote for referendum amid growing uncertainty about euro membership
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    that the government still has time to change its stance and seek a deal with lenders. Alternatively, she said... that the Eurogroup stands ready to reconvene to discuss the Greek issue. “The process has not ended,” he... would have no trust in the government to implement a set of measures it had just campaigned

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  10. Final push for "Yes" and "No" campaigns as referendum result hangs in balance
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    Dijsselbloem has made clear, that whatever deal is agreed would include tougher measures due to the damaging... government or he could trigger the process for national elections. Another option that has emerged... target – especially as there is already friction within the government over the measures proposed so far

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