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Turkey's Varosha move adds new complexity to Greek-Turkish relations
PoliticsForeign Policydiplomatic chief Josep Borrell had not excluded such possibility even before Erdogan’s visit... Turkey’s actions as illegal. He said “there is no room for improvement for relations between Greece and Turkey” but also for Ankara’s relations with the EU. He also reiterated the conclusions
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Government compromises on 2 pct rise for minimum wage
PoliticsGreek Politics, a symbolic increase that is the result of the government’s unwillingness to leave salaries unchanged but also... last year’s recession of 8.2 pct of GDP, but the country’s main labour union, GSEE, had been calling... the minimum wage by 11 pct to 650 euros per month despite scepticism from Greece’s lenders. In his comments
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Govt announces stricter measures for unvaccinated to curb autumn pandemic wave
PoliticsGreek Politicsprefaced his statements by saying that unlike the previous year’s lockdowns, the restrictions due... and to benefit from a public healthcare system unencumbered by the pandemic. The tenor of Tuesday’s... to such views”. Economou argued that it is the government’s duty to ensure the return to normality for those
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PM expected to reshuffle cabinet in bid to leave wildfire damage behind
PoliticsGreek Politicsof civil protection in response to this summer’s events. Opinion poll The PM will hope that this will be enough to overcome the negative impact of the fires on people’s view of his government. The first... and it suggested that recent developments have tarnished New Democracy’s image to some extent. According
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Govt faces fallout from hospital vaccine mandate, as school opening poses fresh challenges
PoliticsGreek Politicsof temporary suspension notices for unvaccinated workers. Greece’s highest administrative court...”. Earlier, SYRIZA’s shadow health spokesman Andreas Xanthos had called on the new Health Ministry..., as many reports note, are less strict than the previous year’s. Pupils will return to classrooms
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ND aiming to sway sceptical young voters despite overall poll dominance
PoliticsGreek Politicsof a concerted effort to woo young Greeks, some of whom appear to have been put off by the government’s... that the government was aware of its struggling reputation among young voters well before this summer’s wildfire..., possibly because the under-30s were less impacted by SYRIZA’s failings in office and more immune
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ND continues to lead polls amid economic worries, while former PM mulls return to frontline politics
PoliticsGreek Politicsdespite mounting concerns on the economic front and growing doubts about the government’s ability... by just over 10 percentage points. ND gets 35 pct of voting intentions compared to SYRIZA’s 24.9..., compared to Alexis Tsipras’s 24 pct. The other findings of the poll, however, give the government
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S&P holds off on new rating upgrade, ECB holds key to investment grade
Economyeconomic outcomes and budgetary projections not materializing. Following S&P’s upgrade in April, Moody’s did not take any action in its scheduled review at the end of May, and Fitch kept its rating... the pandemic uncertainty. Moody’s on the other hand, was the first major agency that upgraded Greece by one
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Police actions in spotlight again after fatal shooting
PoliticsGreek Politicscontroversy around procedures and accountability in the force, as well as the effects of the government’s..., including whether the officers were aware of the ethnic identity of the car’s occupants, and what justified... would “not be be turned into a vigilante force”, adding that “the security of the country’s citizens
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Mitsotakis rules out another lockdown, dismisses criticism of new Covid measures
PoliticsGreek Politicsof implementation. On Wednesday, PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis defended the government’s choices in a TV interview...’s all-time high of 6,700. The number of patients intubated in ICUs stands at 431, while 59 deaths.... Mitsotakis responded to the move by calling into question Tsipras’s religiosity. The leftist
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