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Newsletter 236 -24/01/2020
by broadening the tax base, the total abolition of the solidarity levy in 2021 would cost 1.16 billion euros... and the subsequent furor over Greece’s exclusion from the Berlin Conference on Libya, much
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Migrant boat tragedy forces temporary halt on election campaigning
PoliticsGreek Politicson Wednesday. The sinking of a fishing boat believed to be carrying migrants from Libya to Italy has claimed 79 lives while 104 have been rescued, however estimates of the total number on board range between
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Government vows to recover embezzled subsidies in bid to stem damage from scandal
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat voters would judge New Democracy on its total record rather than the single issue of the subsidy... the implementation of new EU pact on migration and asylum and the increase in arrivals in Greece from Libya
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Banking on voters’ desire for stability, ND insists ruling majority is still achievable
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat the support of a total of 15.2 pct of respondents could be up for grabs. It is also worth... the Turkey–Libya maritime memorandum “in practice.” The government is also pushing ahead
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Newsletter 170 -13/07/2018
a decline of 1.1 percent. Total employment remained above 3.7 million. The overall labour force... revealed. June’s reduction brings the total for central bank funding to 16.31 billion euros for the month compared to May’s total of 20.87 billion, taking it under the 20-billion euro threshold
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High number of Covid-19 cases puts strain on government
PoliticsGreek Politicshealth challenge for the government, but also a political one. On Sunday, a total of 284 cases were... almost 550 cases in total over the weekend, with the pattern of Athens and Thessaloniki dominating the table continuing. The total number of deaths has risen to 242, with another 31 people being
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Public sector hires under scrutiny again with more in the pipeline
PoliticsGreek Politicsbeen the sectors hit hardest by the departures, accounting for 44 pct and 22 pct respectively of total retirement applications in 2020, and 53 pct and 20 pct of the total in 2021. The government plans.... Total hires, including temporary staff, could exceed 45,000 in 2022 according to a plan presented
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Government tries to contain fallout from breach of voters' data
PoliticsGreek Politicsgiven the ongoing investigation into a potential data breach at the Interior Ministry. The MEP... Data Protection Authority, the Interior Ministry and a public prosecutor. It was also announced on Friday that Interior Ministry general secretary Michalis Stavrianoudakis and New Democracy’s secretary
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Investigations into voter email leak continue despite denials from government
PoliticsGreek Politicsof separate investigations by the Interior Ministry, a Greek prosecutor and the country’s Data...-Michelle Asimakopoulou from the upcoming EP elections and the resignation of a senior Interior... that the email list was leaked from the Interior Ministry during the tenure of the caretaker
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A fierce political clash over medicine prices in Greece
PoliticsGreek Politicslast year a total of about 5.5 billion euros on some 6,800 drugs available on the local market.... Of the 5.5 billion spent in total last year, more than 900 million (almost 17 percent) was on generic
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