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Parties rehearse arguments on social policy as labour law comes to vote
PoliticsGreek Politics. The government’s “Jobs Again” bill comes to the vote in Parliament today in what is shaping up to be a major... the government’s aim was to support the “real unemployed” and distinguish between “real unemployed... institutions. Parliament’s scientific advisory committee has offered some support to critics
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Newsletter 335 - 15/04/2022
of the authorities that an expansive fiscal policy would stretch this year’s deficit and would lead... the Ukraine conflict. The Commission’s latest DSA, published with the 13th post-programme review... ministry officials compare this year’s rise in unpaid taxes to the depth of the debt crisis when unpaid
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Mitsotakis lays out confidence-boosting roadmap to end of term
PoliticsGreek Politics, Kyriakos Mitsotakis seems resolute on shifting the focus back to his government’s strategic vision..., Mitsotakis repeated his assurance that Greece’s energy supply was secure, and that natural gas supplies... government’s top priority. He conceded that the measures “do not cover all the price hikes
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Implementation snags hang over ambitious post-Covid recovery plans
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreece’s national plan to allocate EU Recovery & Resilience funds is moving apace at the planning... board, a development which may delay Greece’s access to the second tranche of RRF funding due in June..., doubts have been expressed about the country’s capacity to absorb the amounts available within
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Internal ballot boost SYRIZA membership numbers, bolsters Tsipras
PoliticsGreek Politicsto re-elect him as party president. Although Sunday’s vote was largely ceremonial given that Tsipras ran unopposed, SYRIZA supporters were also asked to elect the members of the party’s new central... the 2019 elections to 62,000 ahead of Sunday’s ballot. When SYRIZA was defeated three years ago
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PM eyes pre-election prize as enhanced surveillance draws to conclusion
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreece’s imminent exit from the enhanced surveillance regime that followed its three adjustment..., Thursday’s announcement had considerable symbolic value as it marked the end, or near-end, of 12-year period during which Greece’s policy was either dictated or heavily supervised by its lenders
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Government attempts to offer reassurance against winter energy shortages
PoliticsGreek Politicsas long as LNG continues to be available. Among the reasons behind his optimism, the minister’s statement listed the increase in storage capacity at the country’s only LNG terminal at Revithoussa, the good operational state of PPC’s five lignite units and the plans in place to switch as many as five
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Govt presents menu of energy proposals in Brussels as power subsidy cost balloons
PoliticsGreek Politicson Greece’s day ahead market reached a record 466 euros per MWh on Monday, reflecting an 11.9 pct increase in the price of natural gas. At the start of the week, natural gas generated 43.5 pct of Greece’s... at a European level, this time trying to present alternatives to the European Commission’s “Save
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Digital initiatives challenged by opposition focussed on cost of living and political hires
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the service becoming available on Thursday morning. The push is part of New Democracy’s ongoing... of the administration’s track record in this area. Reaction Opposition SYRIZA responded by questioning the significance of the most recent announcement. A statement by the party’s digital policy spokesman asked
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Surveillance affair snowballs as opposition makes new spyware claim
PoliticsGreek Politicssent the messages after he issued two statements about the government’s surveillance activities... journalists that appeared on Wednesday before the European Parliament’s PEGA committee, which... on the parliamentary committee probing Androulakis’s surveillance walked out of the inquiry in protest at New
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