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Greek housing market at new juncture as Covid-19 shakes foundations
EconomyFeaturesthe trend. The Covid-19 pandemic has had a chilling effect on the sector, as it has on most areas... fell by 74 pct between 2007 and 2014. Starting in 2017, there has been a slow recovery, led by Athens...-term trends, the increase in construction permits has been credited to a freeze on VAT brought
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Heading for talks with Turkey, Athens sets expectations low
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAfter several weeks of high tension in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean, Greece has confirmed... for a breakthrough are low. “The resumption of exploratory contacts between Greece and Turkey has to do... government has long been highly sceptical about whether Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has
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Economic sentiment up to 92.3 in October, consumer confidence drops for fourth consecutive month
EconomyMacroeconomyyear, the EEI has edged down by 0.4 points. Meanwhile, compared to October 2019, the ESI has..., consumer confidence has dropped by 37.1 points. Consumer confidence has declined for four consecutive... points. Year-on-year, industry confidence has fallen by 10.4 points. The services index improved
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Alarming Covid-19 numbers fuel opposition's criticism of ND's approach
PoliticsGreek Politicsof concern is the fact that the number of patients that have been intubated has risen to 540..., which has been hit worst by the virus and where a mobile treatment unit is being set up outside... be transformed to only accept Covid-19 patients. Despite the precarious situation, the government has put
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Govt struggling to keep coronavirus threat at bay
PoliticsGreek Politicsare set to continue online lessons for the rest of December. The ruling New Democracy party has been... are not convinced by the government’s narrative. SYRIZA has also made an issue of photos and videos... “because he is a human being.” Although the government has consistently tried to deflect any
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PM identifies pending pensions as key problem, while row brews over media law
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has identified clearing the pensions backlog as one... retires. He admitted, though, in the remote meeting of ND’s parliamentary group that this has proved... credibility. Although the government has created a new electronic platform, Atlas, to help achieve
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Lockdown set to be extended as political friction continues
PoliticsGreek Politicscame to 510. Although the latter figure suggests that Greece has yet to experience the full impact... by pointing to the online platform it has created allowing Greeks to volunteer for free tests at 386 points... no longer has a spotless record in the eyes of many voters, but SYRIZA has had no success in convincing
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University bill passes as parties' ideological dividing lines are laid bare
PoliticsGreek Politicsmore police officers. Both parties suggested that ND has a hidden agenda, which is to drive students away from public universities and to private colleges, which the government has already given... Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has appealed to and continues to covet. Right-wing developments
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ND wrong-foots SYRIZA with call to lift expat vote restrictions
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe expat vote has become the latest pretext for a flare-up between the New Democracy government.... The existing law, which has not yet been put to the test in elections, requires Greeks who live abroad... and leftists MeRA25) are happy to court the diaspora vote on their own terms. KKE has gone so far as to accuse
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Athens aiming to boost EU-Balkan momentum
PoliticsForeign PolicyIt has been almost three years since the signing of the Prespes Agreement (June 12, 2018) between... neighbourhood, especially when it has already shown by signing the Prespes Agreement that is seeking... counterparts that since the landmark Thessaloniki Agenda of 2003, Greece has supported the European future
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