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PM set on sharing out more economic benefits in bid to recover support
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government’s efforts to turn the media and public’s attention away from the Tempe issue, which dominated the agenda during the first quarter of the year, continues with the promise of more voter-friendly measures to come. After announcing 1.1 billio...
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Clarity over fiscal space clears way for next set of relief measures
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece’s fiscal outlook has become clearer along with the ability of the Greek government to implement more voter-friendly policies as it attempts to restore its relations with the electorate. The European Commission last week activated the national esc...
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Housing costs, food prices set limits to impact of tax cuts
EconomyThe Greek government’s efforts to shift the narrative and change its political fortunes are crashing against the realities on the ground as reflected in the frequent data releases from Eurostat and ELSTAT. Months of communications build-up around the Th...
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Government hopes new affordable homes bill can help alleviate housing pressure
PoliticsGreek Politicsspeculative buying, particularly in central Athens, where entire apartment blocks have been converted... In Thessaloniki, nominal rents for apartments up to 80 sqm reached 10.55 euros per Sqm, surging 17.6
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Newsletter 16 - 20/02/2015
in his cabinet, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras chose former New Democracy Interior Minister Prokopis... government, with Pavlopoulos as Interior Minister, issued a presidential decree that allowed fixed-term
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Approach to protests, policing poses a new quandary for government
PoliticsGreek Politicsportfolio from the Interior Ministry to the Justice Ministry amid concerns that Panousis and Interior Minister Nikos Voutsis did not see eye to eye. It was notable that Justice Minister Nikos
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Will Tsipras move to centre stage to secure deal with lenders?
PoliticsGreek Politicswithin the government, even leading to thoughts of removing Panousis’s portfolio from the Interior.... Interior Minister Nikos Voutsis and Alternate Minister for European Affairs Nikos Hountis
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PM seeks to douse snap election talk, points to October polls
PoliticsGreek Politicsfuelled on Monday by an amendment submitted to Parliament by the Interior Ministry. It aims... a parliamentary majority. The rule had been introduced in 2014 but the Interior Ministry argues
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Could Greece's immigration reforms have an impact on upcoming elections?
Societygranted “skyrocketed” from 14,178 to 33,487. Interior Minister Alexis Haritsis responded by describing... inhabitants in 2017. The Interior Ministry publishes more detailed statistics on citizenship
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Government courts backlash over squat raids, while opposition is absorbed in internal debate
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe poor impression created by the raids, the government spokesman released photos from the interior... the Interior Ministry to the Ministry of Citizen Protection, essentially defining it as a public order
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