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Troika inquiry: talk to the organ grinder, not the monkey
Agoratransfers? Should Ireland’s citizenry really repay all of its banks’ foolish borrowing? What...The European Parliament’s inquiry into the troika and its record in eurozone bailouts sounds like a welcome effort to hold Europe’s crisis managers to account. Unfortunately, the inquiry’s report
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Opposition parties attack government narrative on pandemic handling
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAs the pandemic continues to hit northern Greece hard, the government’s claims to competent... of the urgent challenges emerging with the second wave. The government’s narrative of careful... the government’s “criminal complacency” following the suppression of the first wave. He criticised the PM
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Warnings of post-holiday Covid surge, continuing wildfires store up risk for ND
PoliticsGreek Politicsdoctors to warn of a tough winter ahead unless vaccination levels are boosted. On Wednesday, Greece’s... the government’s target of 70 pct coverage by the end of the summer is going to be missed. The worsening... variant. Fires The government may have hoped to bring closure at a political level to this summer’s
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Opposition irate over watchdog briefing as govt hints at "rogue network" behind surveillance
PoliticsGreek Politicsin recent days to assert the watchdog’s authority to conduct investigations into the surveillance... which attempts to curtail its remit. Earlier this week, Rammos wrote to the chairman of Parliament’s Institutions and Transparency Committee, asking to brief its members on matters arising from ADAE’s
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PM adds minimum wage hike to pre-election promises, with hints of more to come
PoliticsGreek Politicssupport against the cost-of-living crisis. Mitsotakis used his New Year’s address to announce... in the context of the government’s measures to cushion the effects of inflation, but Mitsotakis also noted... whose benefits will evaporate before they are felt. SYRIZA’s head of social affairs Mariliza
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Kasselakis offers more hints of a positive narrative for SYRIZA's post-Tsipras era
PoliticsGreek Politicsin the party’s fortunes may have been arrested following a stormy party conference, the new leader has... the party’s historic record and his own intentions for the future. In an interview on Mega TV... of Tsipras’s record in government, offending some of the party’s old guard. In the course
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Moscovici hints at possibility of shelving 2019 pension cuts, riles opposition
EconomyProgrammeare not “inelastic.” This was interpreted as an indication that the government’s hopes of not having... as part of the European Semester. Greece’s draft budget is due to be delivered to Brussels around mid... as it is due to be an election year. The coalition’s official position, as per statements made
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Govt hints at more relief measures as opposition lambasts electricity bill fixes
PoliticsGreek Politicsmarkets have been greeted with extreme scepticism by the opposition. Commenting on October’s figures... between wholesale and retail electricity prices following the government’s intervention... of the government’s approach to tackling high energy bills. The leftist party’s energy spokesman
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New president receives strong endorsement, hints at areas of interest
PoliticsGreek Politicson Wednesday by the vast majority of the country’s MPs, vindicating Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s choice, but also justifying SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras’s decision to support her candidacy. Sakellaropoulou, who will leave the Council of State, Greece’s highest administrative court, to take up her
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S&P leaves Greece's 'BBB' rating unchanged, hints at slower pace of upgrades
EconomyS&P on Friday reaffirmed Greece’s sovereign credit rating at ‘BBB’ with a stable outlook, citing confidence in the country’s fiscal discipline, solid economic growth, and an improving banking sector..., following Scope at the end of last year and DBRS in March. Moody’s also awarded Greece its first
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