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Newsletter 178 -12/10/2018
own line Alexis Tsipras’s coalition partner, Defence Minister Panos Kammenos, has been causing... counterpart, Zoran Zaev, while the latter proposal does not represent government policy, which has centred... vote to be held. There has been speculation that New Democracy might make such a move
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Greece drops to 72 in Doing Business index as long-term problems persist
EconomyFeaturesThe latest Doing Business Indicators report for 2019 by the World Bank Group has shown that Greece.... The IMF in particular has noted the lack of reform in the bureaucratic aspects of doing business... the ideal scenario, the score for Greece has risen to 92.4. Additionally, the steps required to start
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Newsletter 218 -06/09/2019
three of the visits (The Netherlands, Germany and France) Mitsotakis has made since returning from his brief summer holiday, the Greek prime minister has stressed his government’s efforts to make Greece more business-friendly and to attract investments. The weight of this message has been helped
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Newsletter 253 -12/06/2020
the coronavirus pandemic has subsided, it has not completely disappeared. Senior government figures were... of hygiene measures after a spate of new cases were recorded over the past few days. As Greece has..., suggesting that any numbing effect of the two-month lockdown on peoples’ movements has subsided
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Newsletter 277 -11/12/2020
. Although the number of daily deaths has dipped below 100 – edging down to 81 on Thursday – almost 600... has intensified, with opposition parties issuing daily statements criticising the government’s... to deflect the criticism he has received for his personal behaviour, after photographs of him
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Newsletter 278 -14/12/2020
. Partly in response to the damage wreaked by the Covid-19 crisis this year, the government has been... sector. In the meantime, the government has been able to take credit for a series of inward investments... and the second lockdown, which has been in place in Greece since the first week of November. Naturally
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Newsletter 280 -15/01/2020
the tax burden for businesses and the middle class. A year and a half after the elections, little has... sensitivities. However, as the pandemic has rolled on, opinion polls have suggested that some of ND’s lustre has worn off and the public’s confidence in its handling of the Covid-19 crisis has somewhat
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Record FDI flow into Greece raises bar, but is it sustainable?
EconomyFeaturesGreece has reported record flows of inward investment in 2021 and looks set to exceed the amount again in 2022. This positive development has been greeted with enthusiasm by the government, which..., the government has set the bar at 7-8 billion euros, with almost 5 billion already secured in H1, which
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Newsletter 360 - 25/11/2022
that New Democracy has yet to be severely damaged by the affair. Sunday’s To Vima reported... ND because of the surveillance scandal. The Alco poll indicated that trust in Mitsotakis has fallen by one point to 30 pct, while trust in SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras has risen by 2 points to 22
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New Democracy continues to court right-wing voters with defence package, identity politics
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDemocracy has little to be complacent about, while rumblings from the conservative wing of the party... parliamentary party convenes to elect a new head. The PM’s pick, MP Apostolos Vesyropoulos, has already... candidate from the traditional wing of the party. Mitsotakis has promised to give the podium to any MP
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