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Government struggles to shake off impact of wildfires
PoliticsGreek PoliticsRapid Mapping Service and the European Forest Fire Observatory (EFFIS) conducted by the National Observatory of Athens’ Meteo service suggested that over the last seven years around a third of forest... Vassilis Kikilias revealed on Saturday that since May 1 the fire service has made almost 150 arrests
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Government lines up new zoning scheme, fuelling debate over growth model
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the National Intelligence Service (EYP) as well as the alleged widespread illegal wiretapping... permission to monitor Androulakis by the prosecutor appointed to the service at the time, Vassiliki Vlachou... being monitored by EYP. Dimitriadis, who was responsible for overseeing the intelligence service, left
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Mitsotakis gets policy ball rolling as clues sought for decision on next president
PoliticsGreek Politicsfollowed Thursday’s funeral service for late PM Costas Simitis with an even keener eye, looking...’s funeral service, describing Simitis as “one of Greece’s greatest leaders during its modern history... not attend the funeral service. Simitis’s passing highlights one of PASOK’s main difficulties
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Opposition lines up attack on government over wildfires with visits to affected areas
PoliticsGreek Politicsservice and stayed behind to aid the firefighters made a “heroic” contribution to putting out the fires... to fire service personnel who have borne the brunt of firefighting efforts. The social democrats argue that the government pay scale makes arbitrary distinctions within the service which should
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Q2 GDP rebounds by 0.9 pct QoQ on higher consumption and falling imports
EconomyMacroeconomyas quarterly data related to the turnover indices for the service industries and labour force survey... The latest official estimates by the institutions are pointing to a recession of 2.3 percent in 2015... in the first half of 2015. Exports Exports of goods and services marginally rose by 0.1 percent QoQ in Q2
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Mitsotakis argues there is no alternative as SYRIZA officials push Kasselakis out
PoliticsGreek Politicssalary at 1,500 euros, a more digitised public service and a better standard of living all round
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Opposition challenges government account of prompt wildfire response
PoliticsGreek Politicsof protecting human lives was accomplished through prompt evacuations. According to official estimates... the flames with what he claimed were “thousands of gaps in the fire service”. The opposition has long criticised the government for prioritising hires in the police over other essential services. SYRIZA’s
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Where are the Conservatives?
Agoraby each average cabinet member. In Greece, each official cabinet member serves, on average, 170,000... unproductive. It takes a big number of them to service the public. Conservative governments like to think... get paid too little per person, so that productivity and the quality of services to the public suffer
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Newsletter 148 -26/01/2018
to the private sector, 3.3 billion for debt service needs and 1.9 billion for the creation of a cash... the efficiency of the e-auction system, which was only launched in November. For years, the official... Strong goods and services balances, softening from a deficit of 1.25 billion a year ago Greece’s
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Newsletter 291 - 02/04/2021
the proposals to his cabinet, followed by an official, televised presentation on Wednesday, along... index improved by 4.4 points month-on-month to -18.2 points. Year-on-year, the service confidence... worsened by 10.6 points. 2 Consumer confidence improves in March Retail, services and employment
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