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PM presents roadmap for relaxing lockdown, highlights political messages from handling of Covid-19
PoliticsGreek Politics. In a televised address, the sixth since the coronavirus outbreak, Mitsotakis set out... from several ministers on the details of how the new set-up will work. The most significant change from..., which saw Greece being held back by incompetent leadership and populist policies rather than any
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SYRIZA ponders election footing, slow vaccination rollout rate troubles govt
PoliticsGreek Politicson possible early elections. Party officials have set out a roadmap up to April to complete all internal... by ND would put governing firmly out of its reach. Vaccination programme Monday saw the launch... season. A report by Ethnos.gr news website on Tuesday suggested that the Health Ministry could be set
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Newsletter 305 - 16/07/2021
of the National Bioethics Committee set up specifically to consider this issue. In its recommendations... October are thought to have exacerbated the second Covid wave in Greece. Wednesday saw the first mass.... The primary balance was above the target set in the 2022-2025 medium-term fiscal strategy by 831
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Stock taking: Where is the Greek economy now?
Agoraineffective, discriminatory, set up a new clientele (of which Greece is already overflowing), and pit one... an important pension/labor reform in 2021, intended to set up funded retirement schemes and thus to diversify... (which has incurred reforms and saw its wages fall)? We hope that we are simply mistaken about
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Govt looks to tweak relief in anticipation of record Covid infections, new inflation high
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe twin pressures from inflation and Omicron look set to enter new levels in the coming days... are set to expire on January 16. While the government had been hoping to be able to loosen some... of living. While last week saw the introduction of a new scheme to subsidise energy costs, price
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Newsletter 331 - 11/03/2022
published an op-ed in Politico on Wednesday in which he set out a six-point plan to address the functioning... into tricky balancing actThis week’s release by ELSTAT of the latest consumer price data, which saw... and a lower fiscal target will be set. MacroeconomyCharts of the weekCPI Greece recorded its highest inflation
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Newsletter 357 - 04/11/2022
agents and businessmen to set up a spying ring that made use of the Predator spyware. The reports... by MEPs may yield more results than the limited inquiry carried out by the Greek Parliament, which saw... of the year, and rather optimistically just one billion euros is set aside for next year, in hope
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SYRIZA leadership contest off to slow start, as ND rushes to contain political damage from fires
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe contest to succeed Alexis Tsipras at the helm of SYRIZA looks set to gather momentum... saw it lose more than half the support that had brought it to power less than a decade ago. Candidates have been slow to set out their stalls, aware that their election will have to run in tandem
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Government struggles to shake off impact of wildfires
PoliticsGreek Politicsand opposition are preparing for two key set-piece events in the coming days, which they hope will revive... box and then saw Alexis Tsipras step down as leader. Over the weekend, SYRIZA suggested that the data... recently published a set of broad policy positions. The first round of the vote to elect a new SYRIZA
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New Democracy leadership headed for showdown with right wing over migrant labour bill
PoliticsGreek PoliticsA government proposal to offer working visas to resident irregular migrants is set to pitch... party. The vote on Tuesday looks set to further strengthen the position of PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis... by the former PM, who recently told a Sunday newspaper that he saw it as his duty as a former premier
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