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Reshuffle speculation resurfaces, swiftly dismissed by government
PoliticsGreek Politics, it is standard practice for government officials to deny changes are imminent until the prime minister... these lines, although the last reshuffle also saw him bringing in more MPs and figures from the party’s... on playing the reshuffle card until he gets closer to an election contest and might want to bring
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Post-Covid era dawns on new landscape for bad debt in Greece
EconomyFeaturescontracted, the seven-and-a-half years to June 2016 saw a seven-fold increase in the volume of loans... of this process. Moratoria on loan repayments were in effect until the end of 2020, while the suspension... will not be operational until the spring of 2022, however an interim arrangement of mortgage subsidies
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Government U-turns again to tighten Covid measures over Christmas
PoliticsGreek Politicshours earlier. The new measures, which come into effect at 6 am on Friday and remain in place until... considered until the new year. The New Democracy government faced strong criticism from the opposition... of the downward trend in infections in the last few days. Wednesday saw the second consecutive
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Govt looks to tweak relief in anticipation of record Covid infections, new inflation high
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the rules, it now looks likely that it will have to extend the duration of most of them at least until... there will be no official decision until after the next scheduled meeting of the expert advisory committee... of living. While last week saw the introduction of a new scheme to subsidise energy costs, price
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Newsletter 332 - 18/03/2022
pay out 110 million euros to small businesses towards covering energy price increases up until April..., the pandemic. Until late last year, Greece’s poor performance in terms of containing the virus and the high... over the last few quarters, which saw the stock of main pensions applications drop from the high
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Speculation about snap polls after summer revived by PM's US trip
PoliticsGreek Politicswill opt to call elections after the summer rather than wait until the end of his government’s four... recently saw strong turnouts for internal voting procedures and Mitsotakis may have seen this as a warning... would be better off waiting until next year, when Greece is expected to regain the investment grade
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PM broaches demographics issue, stresses role of migration
PoliticsGreek Politics. The economic crisis of the previous decade, which saw birth rates fall, emigration among young people rise.... But this has, until now, only led to a very loose debate about the issue and little discussion... there until 6 p.m. on weekdays. He also pledged that more gynaecologists and paediatricians would
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Election date seen hanging in balance as PM weighs pros and cons
PoliticsGreek PoliticsUntil Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announces the date of the elections this year, speculation... ruffling the church’s feathers, another option would be to hold the election on April 2, or to wait until... and calling for more active hydrocarbon exploration. Given that New Democracy already saw some of its more
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Our cruel summer
Agoraas rushing to board a ferry. It is often a feature of human nature, though, to ignore risks until... accommodation in the Koutsochero camp, which had housed refugees until the storm arrived. It was Greeks... in this summer’s devastating wildfires. Once more, the fragility of our existence was revealed to us. We saw how
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Greece and troika: Bailout tranche, funding gap and debt relief still pending
PoliticsGreek Politicsredemptions to make until May 20, when 4.2 billion euros worth of bonds held by the European Central Bank... that discussions about reducing Greece’s debt will not begin in earnest until the summer. This means..., it will also clear the way for a discussion on the funding gap that lies ahead this year and in 2015
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