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Vote on child custody bill reveals rifts within ND, KINAL
PoliticsGreek Politicsparents made headlines for creating political divisions within Greece’s governing New Democracy... that Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s hitherto tightly disciplined party experienced an outright rebellion – albeit.... Among them, the bill’s sponsor Justice Minister Konstantinos Tsiaras, tried to dismiss their objections
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Loosening of restrictions on expat vote fails to secure Parliament's approval
PoliticsGreek Politicsand diaspora Greeks alike, tabled the legislation after SYRIZA’s spokeswoman on expat affairs made...’s lead appears unshakeable with 34 pct of voting intentions against SYRIZA’s 20.1 pct, while... pct of respondents give a negative score for the government’s performance across the board, while only
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NBG posts 557 mln profit in Q1
EconomyBankingpercent QoQ from 314 million in Q4. Net fee income fell 2 percent QoQ to 67 million in Q4 The bank’s... to 48.2 billion euros in Q1, while Greek deposits dipped 0.3 percent to 46.6 billion euros. NBG’s loan to deposits ratio came to 55.7 percent in Q1. NBG’s participation in the ECB’s TLTRO/LTRO
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Govt on defensive over property tax tweaks and labour bill
PoliticsGreek Politics’s labour reforms are dominating the domestic political agenda. A wave of property transactions... to voters is that the working class families will be adversely affected by the government’s handling... as part of its bailout commitments several years ago. This is in keeping with SYRIZA’s broader efforts
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Industrial turnover jumps by 52.5 pct in April on base effects
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece’s industrial turnover rose 52.5 percent from a year earlier in April, compared... the depressed levels of the first lockdown in April 2020, after March’s rise brought an end to 13 straight... by 59.5 percent, following an increase of 32.4 percent the month before. In the domestic market, April’s
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Covid rears its head again as ND reaches halfway point in tenure
PoliticsGreek Politicsstandards uptake among elderly Greeks – is a weak point for Greece’s vaccination programme. He noted... for the next generation. The prime minister insisted that the government’s proposed scheme for indoor... government’s handling of the pandemic has waned since last year, opinion polls also suggest
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PM opts for compulsory vaccinations in healthcare as Covid-19 cases continue to surge
PoliticsGreek Politics28.5 years over the weekend, with several outbreaks reported at children’s summer camps. The rapid.... The second element of Mitsotakis’s announcement concerned changes to the plans for reopening indoor dining..., but unvaccinated Greeks”. Reaction The government’s “carrot and stick” approach to promoting vaccination has
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Industrial turnover jumps by 37 pct in May on base effects
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece’s industrial turnover rose 37 percent from a year earlier in May, compared with a revised... of the first lockdown in 2020, with March’s rise bringing to an end 13 straight decreases. The increase... an increase of 59.4 percent the month before. In the domestic market, May’s increase in industrial turnover
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Stalling vaccination campaign, protests raise concerns on health and political fronts
PoliticsGreek Politicsto a combination of vaccine hesitancy and an increasingly active anti-vaccination front. Monday’s regular... the government’s pandemic measures – some doctors, and particularly gynaecologists, have been accused of over... newspaper, it is thought that up to half the participants in Saturday’s demonstrations were associated
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Wildfires rekindle longstanding political battle as heatwave forces agenda change
PoliticsGreek Politics-wing government’s downfall. In opposition then, ND pulled out all the stops to ensure that SYRIZA... on the beach.” The centre-right government’s response was to refer back to SYRIZA’s handling of the Mati fire... – an image that New Democracy held up at the time as a sign of the then prime minister’s
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