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PM tries to draw line under Golden Dawn affair, defends handling of second Covid-19 wave
PoliticsGreek PoliticsKyriakos Mitsotakis seeks to draw a line under the Golden Dawn affair and defends his government’s... as a way of having a final say on the Golden Dawn trial ahead of the sentencing expected this week. “I... Golden Dawn to trial and defeating the Neo-Nazis at the ballot box as they failed to enter Parliament
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Golden Dawn to compete in EP elections but its longer term future is unclear
PoliticsGreek Politicsup: Golden Dawn will take part in the contest. The Supreme Court decided over the weekend... in the elections, many of which will only receive a handful of votes. Golden Dawn, under investigation for alleged criminal activities, had set up an alternative party (National Dawn) that would have
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Greece and the euro: The flight of Icarus
Agora, as some of the people in the audience today will know very well. Greece saw joining the euro as part... meant structural factors were overlooked. A period of belt-tightening before euro entry saw Greece’s... economic model in which the state was omnipresent. The two-party system that had dominated Greek
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Newsletter 297 - 21/05/2021
and transformation of the country’s economic model. It also acknowledges the need for a radical overhaul of the country’s productive model. However, the emphasis, as presented by Tsipras, is on more... in Q4 2020. Old apartments, classified as over five years old, saw their prices increase by 3.4
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Revenues at 4.77 bln in Oct, beating target for fourth straight month
Economyto the targets being beaten over the last four months, even though there is a steady increase in unpaid...The final budget execution to October confirmed preliminary figures, released by the Ministry of Finance (MoF) on November 13, showing revenues beating monthly targets by 763 million euros
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Newsletter 461 - 09/05/2025
by Zoe Konstantopoulou, saw its support shoot up during February and March, reaching 13.4 pct... saw their backing dip from 12.8 pct to 12.4 pct. Although the gap between the two parties is slight... asked whether they saw the next general elections as an opportunity to cast a protest vote, 77 pct
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Sensing opportunity, Golden Dawn rears its head again
PoliticsGreek PoliticsTwo Golden Dawn MPs were ousted from a parliamentary committee on Wednesday after verbally abusing... seem to be feeling. After a period in the shadows, Golden Dawn MPs have begun appearing... Greece’s sovereign rights. There has been criticism of both developments and Golden Dawn perhaps
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Newsletter 271 -30/10/2020
that a large portion of workers fell into one of three categories: Either they saw their work suspended... at 7.01 bln September figure confirmed as missing target by 9.58 billion euros The budget primary balance recorded a deficit of 7.01 billion euros in the first nine months of 2020, compared to a surplus
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Lowest income groups in Greece saw wages drop and taxes rise most during crisis
SocietyLower income groups in Greece saw their tax burden increase by 337.7 percent from 2008 to 2012... percent from 2008 to 2012, the bottom three income groups saw their earnings from wages sink the most...) was in the 5th decile while those at the top saw their wage income fall by 9.3 percent. It also finds
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Rare moment of unity as MPs agree to stop Golden Dawn’s state funding
PoliticsGreek Politicsto Golden Dawn halted in the wake of charges being levelled against its leader and several MPs... the coalition’s proposal. Golden Dawn was due to receive almost 900,000 euros this year from the pot... a public relations gift by giving voters the impression it did not want to cut Golden Dawn’s funding
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