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Newsletter 281 -22/01/2021
First step taken to ease lockdown Retail sector re-opens under conditions as MoF ponders more business support After re-opening the retail sector at the start of the week, the Prime Minister intimated that he would adopt a cautious approach to allowing other economic activity to resume as Greece
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Vaccination rate starts to rise as further lockdown relaxation examined
PoliticsGreek Politicsafter the retail sector was allowed to re-open on Monday. During the week, Prime Minister Kyriakos
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Govt's campus police proposals face further pushback as protests against education bill go ahead
PoliticsGreek Politicsof authoritarianism, while KINAL (Movement for Change) demanded a statement from the prime minister
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Athens prepared to be patient after resumption of Greek-Turkish talks
PoliticsForeign PolicyPrime Minister Antonis Samaras’ intervention last week when he opposed the restart of the exploratory
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Unease over political pressure on experts accompanies rumours of stricter lockdown
PoliticsGreek Politicscommittee. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has repeatedly sought to stress that the government
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PM tightens lockdown, braces for economic and political impact
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced on Tuesday that a stricter lockdown will be imposed from Thursday in Attica as Greece tries to avoid a new, damaging wave of coronavirus. The new measures mean that retail stores, which had re-opened last month, will close again and primary and secondary
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EC sees big drop for economy in 2020, expects milder recovery of 3.5 pct in 2021
EconomyMacroeconomya gradual return of tourists. In a recent event Greece’s Prime Minister had taken a much more bullish
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Greece's EU journey: Solidarity hard to come by, but two-way approach also lacking
Agorareceived few vaccines while some others, like North Macedonia, still none. Even though Greek Prime
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University bill passes as parties' ideological dividing lines are laid bare
PoliticsGreek Politicsor law and order, which critics claim is closer to the hard right than the political centre that Prime
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Govt looks for positives as it steps up vaccine rollout
PoliticsGreek Politicsrecently, along with several communications blunders, such as Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s
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