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Govt ploughs on with reform bills as politicians' wealth declarations draw attention
PoliticsGreek PoliticsParliament has been voting on some of the government’s reform bills but the political and media attention has mostly been focussed on MPs’ annual derivation of wealth declarations. The relevant... of its services. The parlous state of the country’s cadastre has been a constant source of friction
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Economic sentiment rises to 113 points in August, but consumer and retail confidence slide
EconomyMacroeconomyto last year, the EEI has risen by 5.4 points. Meanwhile, compared to August 2020, the ESI has increased... of the pandemic when it dropped to 87.6, but it has been improving since. The EU average ESI stood... in August. Compared to the same month last year, consumer confidence has dropped by 0.1 points
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Androulakis receives strong mandate for renewal at KINAL
PoliticsGreek PoliticsIn a development that could cause reverberations across Greek politics, MEP Nikos Androulakis has... in the first ballot and around 156,000 in the second. The 42-year-old politician from Crete has... dignity.” In truth, Androulakis has revealed little about his political beliefs during the campaign
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Mitsotakis unveils property tax reduction, searches for pre-election narrative
PoliticsGreek Politics. The Finance Ministry has been working on the details of the revised ENFIA over the past few months... review. Finance Minister Christos Staikouras has been stressing the need to keep public finances under... suggest that although ND retains a big lead over SYRIZA, its popularity has been waning and it has been
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Traditional sectors carry burden of job creation as unemployment levels fall
EconomyMacroeconomyon the recovery path it has been following since July 2013, when monthly unemployment rate peaked at 28 pct... covering the two-year period. Although it has some methodological differences due to not being seasonally... then, and up to Q3 2021, employment has increased to 4.12 million, a rise of 638,400 more jobs. Busy
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Athens bracing for fresh tension with Turkey, sends letter to UN
PoliticsForeign Policyurged the US not supply Turkey with the F-16 fighter jets. Ankara has been putting pressure... demonstrate Turkey's revisionist stance.” Athens acknowledges that a new round of tension with Ankara has.... This was Greece's response to Ankara’s letter to the UN last September. Turkey has been criticising
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ND draws battle lines around universities as tensions flare over reforms and policing
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government’s latest education reform bill has been put to public consultation amid tensions..., and were later repealed. The union representing academic staff, POSDEP, has already rejected the new... on university campuses around the issue of policing. This is a divisive issue that New Democracy has promised
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Tsipras talks up prospects of snap elections
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAlexis Tsipras has added to the ongoing speculation about snap polls in the autumn by indicating... months ahead of schedule. Tsipras, like his New Democracy counterpart, has been touring the country... has realised that his policies are leading to a dead-end for his party, forcing the PM to prepare
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ND stakes claim on social policy, highlighting referendum anniversary
PoliticsGreek PoliticsNew Democracy has announced that it is launching a debate on social policy, in a move widely... the government believes it has delivered on social issues. The list included a reduction in unemployment from... noting that while New Democracy has a substantial lead over SYRIZA in many policy areas, social
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Newsletter 344 - 01/07/2022
positive surprise. The challenge for the ministry is that it has already allocated all... five months of the year. The total package has reached 8.44 billion euros. Five billion euros of this comes from the Energy Transition Fund and does not hit the deficit. Nevertheless, the budget has
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