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Government comes out swinging as tense week, building up to Tempe protests, begins
PoliticsGreek Politicspressure over the Tempe issue, we have not yet reached the point where his position is in direct... for this week, as far as the government is concerned, by producing a typically combative TV performance... TV. “It is, in essence, a protest against Mitsotakis.” He added that the Tempe victims
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Foreign policy emerges as potential point of friction between EU and new Greek government
PoliticsForeign PolicyForeign policy, rather than bailout terms or debt relief, is emerging as the first potential point... with emerging new powers,” he said. Unusually, there was a small point of conflict during... create an immediate point of friction between Athens and its European partners, particularly
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In tight election race, rare TV debate carries element of unknown
PoliticsGreek Politics. A Pulse poll for Action 24 TV on Tuesday was the latest to indicate that the situation remains very
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New Democracy seeks higher ground in escalating TV permits row
PoliticsGreek PoliticsA new chapter in the ongoing saga relating to Greece’s TV licences is due to be written this week, with the government hoping to recover from the blow dealt by the Council of State and New Democracy hoping to inflict further damage on the coalition. A new cross-party attempt to appoint a board
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Tsipras makes his point in Moscow but leaves with nothing tangible
PoliticsGreek Politicsannouncements. What was the point? All this then leads to the question of what Tsipras’s talks in Moscow... to stress (he referred to this point several times during the news conference) that Greece is a sovereign
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Covid rears its head again as ND reaches halfway point in tenure
PoliticsGreek PoliticsEven though Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is trying to play down the government reaching the halfway point in its two-year term in office, the unofficial performance reviews being conducted... standards uptake among elderly Greeks – is a weak point for Greece’s vaccination programme. He noted
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IMF trims 1 point off 2022 growth, makes major revision to inflation forecast
EconomyMacroeconomypoint to 3.5 pct, slowing further to 2.6 pct in 2023 and down to just 1.2 pct in 2027. According... of time and this has been the main point of contention with the eurozone on the sustainability of Greek
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First signs from new Greek government point to awkward meetings with lenders
EconomyProgrammeactivities). Asked to comment in an interview with Mega TV on the remaining layoffs of 4,000 public
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Greek deposits nosedive by 12.8 bln in Jan as balances reach lowest point since Aug 2005
EconomyMacroeconomy. In an interview with Bloomberg TV on Wednesday, Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis said that inflows
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Court ruling on pension cuts could create new problem in talks, fiscal plans
EconomyProgrammeAlexis Mitropoulos (SYRIZA) claimed in an interview with Mega TV this week that the Council of State... of pensions is retroactive. Mega TV reported that the ruling would also rule unconstitutional the zero... pensions of a total amount of 2.07 billion and the remaining 277 million relates to supplementary
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