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University bill a source of friction but govt unlikely to be ruffled
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThere has been further reaction to the government’s education bill this week as Education Minister...-funded universities in Greece outperform the country’s private colleges by far. According... also voiced its opposition to the government’s plans. Speaking on the radio on Friday, KINAL
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Public sector staff trends survive MoU exit, change of government
SocietyThe latest figures from Greece’s public sector staff census show a continuation of the trends established during the latter part of the country’s financial crisis. While the numbers of permanent... Democracy, and the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis. Greece’s official exit from the economic adjustment
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PM tries to contain Covid confusion as protests on education and lockdowns intensify
PoliticsGreek Politicsan extended interview to Skai TV’s evening news in which he sought to put his government’s messaging...-week lockdown on the nation’s capital after being presented with data showing an alarming increase... not come in for similar criticism. The PM was guardedly optimistic on Greece’s economic prospects
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Govt looks for positives as it steps up vaccine rollout
PoliticsGreek Politics, while almost 155,000 had received both jabs. The government’s aim is for 1.7 mln Greeks to have received.... According to the government’s plan, virtually everyone above 60 and all those in high-risk groups... to account for people’s professions. This could lead to those working in the tourism and food service
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Greek #MeToo claims snowball amid accusations of political cover-up
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAccusations of sexual assault and abuse which started with Olympic yachtswoman’s Sofia Becatarou’s... the ministry. Her claims were undermined when a group of drama students from the National Theatre’s school..., now claiming that Lignadis’s appointment was made at the behest of senior figures in the government
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Industrial turnover drops 3.5% in December as overseas markets hit
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece’s industrial turnover fell in December as nascent recovery in the overseas market... released on Friday from the Hellenic Statistical Authority. It’s the 11th consecutive decline, though... before. The index’s performance in December was led by a 12.1 percent drop in the mining
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Alpha Bank enters agreement with Davidson Kempner for 10.8 bln Galaxy securitisation
EconomyBankingworth about 230 million euros that moves it towards completing Europe’s second-largest rated NPE... Bank’s loan servicing subsidiary, the bank said in a stock exchange filing. It will also take 51... of soured loans, which benefits from 3.8 billion euros in guarantees from the government’s Hercules
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Health service in spotlight as govt scrabbles for more measures to contain Covid
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe existing lockdown in Athens and other parts of Greece is sufficient, it appears that Tuesday’s figures have forced the government’s hand. The National Health Organisation (EODY) announced 2,353 new Covid-19... under control is also hampering the government’s efforts to reopen the retail sector, which Deputy
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Pandemic raises economic pressure as govt hopes for imminent relief
PoliticsGreek Politicsand the government’s ability to keep providing businesses with economic relief. Although on Thursday... been intimations from the government’s side that it would like to be in a position to relax... Dimitris Koufodinas, are contributing to the spread of Covid-19. During Thursday’s daily media
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Govt prepares new round of economic relief as Covid remains a threat
PoliticsGreek Politicseconomic support to make up for the longer than expected impact of Covid-19, even though the virus’s persistence has thrown off New Democracy’s initial planning for 2021. The government had hoped...’s budget plans for this year. Speaking to Sunday’s Kathimerini, Finance Minister Christos
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