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Survey attempts to map current contours of progressivism in Greece
Societyreconcile service expansion with credible, politically palatable tax reform and anti-evasion measures... resolving the taxation-service tension that sits at the centre of voters’ impatience.... of Church and State (4.11). Positions widely coded conservative—reinstating the death penalty and banning
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Government struggles to shake off impact of wildfires
PoliticsGreek PoliticsRapid Mapping Service and the European Forest Fire Observatory (EFFIS) conducted by the National Observatory of Athens’ Meteo service suggested that over the last seven years around a third of forest... Vassilis Kikilias revealed on Saturday that since May 1 the fire service has made almost 150 arrests
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SYRIZA gives up on "odious debt" write-off but not major debt relief
PoliticsGreek Politicspolitical goals the writing off of the "majority" of Greek debt. Stathakis's comment certainly appears... per year to service it," he said. "This must come from budget surpluses and privatisations. It is our... surplus target and to allow it to pay off its debt, despite lower servicing costs. This means that while
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Athens struggles with civil service evaluation, reduction of arrears
EconomyProgrammeafter the Second World War. “Decades of experience in comparably difficult cases show that crisis-prone.... “The payment of debt over very long periods has also been experienced here in Germany, for example,” he added
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Newsletter 465 - 06/06/2025
of 1.1 billion euros, with 600 million euros directed at a one-off handout to pensioners and the rebate... untie Gordian knots, you cut them,” he declared, announcing that by mid-2026, OPEKEPE’s
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Mitsotakis tests PASOK with proposal to end permanence in civil service
PoliticsGreek Politicsof scrapping permanence in the civil service. However, it also appears that Mitsotakis and his aides... of breaches of the civil service code. He also went on to criticise the evaluation process in the civil service, arguing that the assessment is being carried out by general managers and department chiefs
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Govt faces pushback from food service sector over re-opening rules
PoliticsGreek Politicswill not open their establishments because they will not be able to earn enough revenue. The food service... an indication of how concerned the government is about keeping the food service sector content and able... that the government would not abandon food service businesses – another sign of the importance
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Tsipras invokes political solution to resolve labour reform stand-off
PoliticsGreek Politicsmarket and the IMF wanting to stave this change off for the time being, while insisting that Athens has... at a technical level, noting that the IMF mostly has experience of working in non-European Union countries
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Debt relief or debt restructuring for Greece?
Agorato service its accumulated debt. Greece can only come closer to debt sustainability... unresolved situation with holdout creditors in Argentina, the experience with the twin sovereign debt... to make eight biannual instalments between 2018 and 2021 instead of having to make a full, one-off
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Mitsotakis breaks the ice in Sochi but Russia's wariness remains
PoliticsGreek Politicswill discuss the relevant options paper prepared by the European External Action Service and the European... to Brussels tomorrow to participate in the EU Foreign Affairs Council (FAC). The issue of sanctions
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