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Independent watchdog in eye of storm as parties clash over surveillance probe
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe political clash over the surveillance scandal went up a notch on Tuesday, when SYRIZA leader... to prompt the PM’s resignation. SYRIZA is expected to bring up the issue in Parliament on Wednesday... of ADAE marks another step in the scaling up of the bitter political feud over the surveillance scandal
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Seeking showdown in Parliament, SYRIZA tables censure motion over surveillance report
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe report. The opposition leader’s actions were widely expected to lead up to a grand gesture... minister himself as lies and fabrications. Tsipras accused Mitsotakis of setting up the surveillance... service. The SYRIZA leader also accused the government collectively of colluding to cover up the affair
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Newsletter 367 - 27/01/2023
the surveillance scandal was ratcheted up this week after SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras tabled a censure... record in tackling the cost-of-living crisis, which has so far featured much higher up voters’ list... taxation. In reality, the cost-of-living crisis and the inflation wave that have pushed up tax revenues
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Tsipras positions SYRIZA as defender of democratic institutions amid row over police corruption
PoliticsGreek Politicsof several appearances by Alexis Tsipras to drum up support on the road to elections. During... that he will keep up the pressure to bring the government and Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis... in allegations of a cover-up. Sunday’s edition of To Vima featured an investigation into high-level
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Car sales start 2023 with uptick of 54.6 pct
EconomyMacroeconomyat 18,218. The remainder was made up of lorries (2,781) and buses (130), both up by 39.2 and 88.4... by 90.7 percent and used passenger car sales also up by 19.1 percent. In the full year 2022, 205,130 road motor cars were sold. The 3.3 percent rise was led by passenger cars at 177,844, up by 6.8
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Survey highlights households struggling with cost of living, delivers worst outlook since 2019
EconomyThe effects of the cost-of-living crisis in Greece were summed up in another business association... in the country. There is an equal allocation in source of income, with wages taking up 44 pct... allocate more on utility bills, while 65 pct now spend more on food. Heating has also gone up for six
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PM hails uptake of food voucher scheme amid growing evidence of hardship
PoliticsGreek PoliticsNew Democracy continues to roll out support measures in the run-up to spring elections... of government initiatives to tackle the cost-of-living crisis. The scheme covers up to 10 pct of the amount... had been made since the online platform opened earlier this week. Up to 85 pct of the population
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Jan delivers most negative hiring balance since 2017
EconomyMacroeconomyof the total, with the remaining classed as layoffs and termination of contracts. Layoffs are up by 40,222 year-on-year, while voluntary exits were up by 9,915. Hires were up by 48,330 jobs compared... to 52 percent. Part-time and shift work made up 39 percent and 9 percent of hirings, respectively
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Does the EU Commission suffer from optimism bias? (Part 2)
Agora(!) in productivity growth. This “leveling up” assumption in productivity growth drives the optimistic EU real GDP...—governments have skin in the game to talk things up. The pressures are so high on Fund staff... the euphemistic phrase that “the risks are slanted to the downside,” that routinely shows up in the risk
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ND suffers ratings blow after train crash, hopes time is on its side
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor smaller parties, like radical left MERa25 (up from 2.7 to 3.5 pct) and ultra-nationalist Greek Solution (up from 3.6 to 3.9 pct) but the proportion of voters saying they would cast spoiled ballots also went up from 1.3 to 2.3 pct. The percentage of undecided voters remained stable at around 10 pct
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