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ND quick out of blocks as election race gets underway officially
PoliticsGreek Politicsover the weekend. The Metron Analysis survey in To Vima suggested that support for ND is edging up.... The poll places backing for the centre-right party at 27.8 pct, up from 26.2 pct in the previous survey... also inched up to 22.2 pct, although the gap between the two leading parties has now grown to 5.6
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Hotel and restaurant jobs boost hirings balance in March
EconomyMacroeconomyclassed as layoffs and termination of contracts. Layoffs are up by 16,705 year-on-year, while voluntary exits were up by 6,429. Hires were up by 50,673 jobs compared to March last year, while departures... and shift work made up 35.4 percent and 8.6 percent of hirings, respectively. In March, hirings were
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Tsipras seizes on PM's surveillance comments in last-ditch attempt to boost poll hopes
PoliticsGreek Politics”, a verbal slip-up which was seized on by his opponents as an acknowledgement of the seriousness of the allegations that he had previously tried to downgrade as an administrative slip-up. In his rejoinder... Mitsotakis’s “co-conspriators” in hushing up the affair. In a subsequent TV interview, Androulakis defended
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Mitsotakis eyes majority in second vote as SYRIZA reels from crushing defeat
PoliticsGreek Politicsbe held on June 25. This matter is likely to be cleared up swiftly so that by Tuesday... the 3 pct mark, it will push up the threshold needed for New Democracy to gain a majority and could lead to Mitsotakis ending up with a slimmer advantage than he currently has. SYRIZA headaches However
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Mitsotakis bids to hold on to voters with loose allegiance to ND
PoliticsGreek PoliticsKyriakos Mitsotakis is not letting up in his bid to convince Greeks to give him and his New..., which is hoping to scoop up some of the votes that went to the conservatives in the May 21 vote..., Mitsotakis and other ND officials have not let up in their insistence that there are no coalition
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Mitsotakis starts second term, prepares to name cabinet and launch reforms amid far-right rise
PoliticsGreek Politicsis rumoured to be the next defence minister. Gerapetritis’s departure will lead to a minor shake-up... Papastavrou is being lined up as a new addition to the team in the Prime Minister’s Office. The alternate... and public-private partnerships. Nikos Papathanasis is being lined up for this role. Former Labour
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Producer prices for June increase in most categories aside from energy
EconomyMacroeconomy. The index was in negative territory for most of 2020 and up to March 2021, when it grew annually.... This rise reverses four continuous monthly contractions. The index over the rolling 12-month period is up... and gas supply up by 3.8 percent. Goods sold to the foreign market were down by 23.2 percent YoY
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Waiters and hospitality jobs lead way as hiring balance improves YoY in June
EconomyMacroeconomy, with the remaining classed as layoffs and termination of contracts. Layoffs are up by 20,007 year-on-year, while voluntary exits were down by 1,690. Hires were up by 27,965 jobs compared to June last year, while departures are also up by 18,317. The proportion of hirings for full-time work came to 54 percent
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Monthly rise of 3 pct for producer price index in Aug prompts cost concerns
EconomyMacroeconomy. The index was in negative territory for most of 2020 and up to March 2021, when it grew annually... the rolling 12-month period is up by 3.1 percent. The products sold in the domestic market dropped 8.3..., intermediate goods increased by 0.1 percent, capital goods were up by 2.5 percent, durables up by 1.6 percent
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State braces for losses as bank divestment plan is put into action
EconomyBankingof state capital, which pushed up state participation to almost full ownership at 98.6 pct holding. As HFSF... billion euros. Eurobank ended up with the ownership of the healthy part of the Hellenic Post Bank, and took ownership of Proton Bank, which also had received 550 million euros to tidy up its balance
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