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Athens moves ahead with expansionary measures as it waits for lenders' response
EconomyProgrammebenefit for low-income pensioners, admitting that scrapping the handout was one of SYRIZA’s “big defeats... to abide by its commitments. Primary surplus One issue that Tsakaltos is certain to be quizzed about
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How SYRIZA lost and New Democracy won
Agoratheir first ballots. Connecting with the youth was meant to be one of Tsipras’s assets. An exit poll from... percent versus 29.3 percent for SYRIZA. A new landscape One of the ways that the Greek crisis reflected
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Mitsotakis urges voters to give ND clear majority amid KINAL turmoil
PoliticsGreek Politicsto guarantee a strong government for the Greek people, one which can implement the necessary reforms quickly.... It will have to find a new message to present to voters, one that will be less divisive than the “many
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ND to highlight range of policy proposals after emphasis on tax cuts
PoliticsGreek Politicsto gain and something to lose from a one-on-one discussion between its leader and the prime minister
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Mitsotakis steps up pressure on voters to avoid July 7 letdown
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor the centre-right party appears to be a low turnout. One conservative official after the other... government which could be formed at that time is one of national cooperation,” he said. “I sense
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Outright majority in sight for ND as campaign takes detour through recent past
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDemocracy stands at 36 percent (one point higher than a week earlier), while backing for SYRIZA remains... that one or both might not enter Parliament, where the threshold for electing MPs is 3 percent. According
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EFKA fund data shows 30 pct in part-time jobs earning less than 400 euros on average
EconomyMacroeconomyThe Unified Social Security Fund’s (EFKA) latest employment data as of December 2018 has shown that around one in three employees earn a gross monthly wage of around 390 euros. The summary statistics.... With part-time work representing roughly 30 percent of the total, this is equal to almost one
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Mitsotakis, ND officials rebuff suggestion of credit line
PoliticsGreek Politicscould be used as a guarantee for one of the proposed institutional schemes to reduce banks’ NPLs via... in the enhanced surveillance. The idea of agreeing any kind of MoU is politically toxic at the moment and is one
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New team at Finance Ministry tasked with familiar old juggling act
PoliticsGreek Politics. Theodoros Skylakakis, the deputy minister responsible for government spending, is one of the non... the party since 2013. Mitsotakis’s may have made one of his shrewdest choices in appointing the highly
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Talks to begin on plan to rescue PPC from dire financial straits
EconomyOne of the first orders of business for the new government is to tackle the beleaguered state-controlled energy company, the Public Power Corporation (PPC). Reports suggest that representatives from... in February collapsed. During the initial process, PPC received one binding offer for the Melitis unit
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