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Newsletter 354 - 07/10/2022
-right parties are polling between 7 and 10 pct of the total vote and if more than one... on Monday, has a lower than expected primary surplus of 0.7 pct of GDP. This is expected to help... handling of Greek-Turkish relations than they would in Alexis Tsipras, but he is also aware
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Pension rises approved as public opinion teeters ahead of election year
PoliticsGreek Politics, although the economic environment is expected to be tougher next year than in 2022 as a result of lower... Democracy, while SYRIZA and Greek Solution abstained from the ballot rather than voting against the law... will see a rise, which will probably be lower than inflation, around a third will not as they have
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SYRIZA gears up for looming elections as poll gap narrows
PoliticsGreek Politicsa more technocratic, rather than political, background. Party officials say that they want to be on their toes in case Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis decides to call elections sooner than later... rather than a genuine effort to restore trust in Greek institutions.
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PM adds minimum wage hike to pre-election promises, with hints of more to come
PoliticsGreek Politicsever closer on the horizon. In what has become a pattern of surprise announcements, an earlier-than... that the minimum wage would be raised on April 1, a month earlier than scheduled. The announcement came after... than the eurozone average. The latest raise is expected to bring the minimum wage to at least 751
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Opposition hoping surveillance, cronyism scandals will bite ND
PoliticsGreek Politicstool to EYP’s normal bugging process, rather than being part of a rogue operation being executed... uncovered would have to be weightier than whatever has seen the light of day so far. Although most... was a key shareholder in a company that had been awarded more than 400,000 euros in public contracts
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Opposition dismisses PM's economic pledges as electioneering, keeps focus on surveillance
PoliticsGreek Politicsround of public sector entry exams in March for more than 5,000 positions. Speaking at an event... the economy are more mixed. Fewer than a third of respondents (29.7 percent) describe their financial situation as good, while fewer than half (47.7 percent) say they can cover their basic needs. Almost 7
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PM bats away surveillance claims, looks to final pre-election handouts
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat the public trusts the government on defence and foreign policy issues more than in most other areas... of reporting on the surveillance issue, including publishing the names of more than 100 people... million euros, more than half of which is expected to have a carry-over effect. The government
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Vulnerable households allocated 60 pct of income for housing even before cost-of-living crisis
Economyimproving significantly since 2015 from a peak of more than 49 percent, in 2021 it was still at 36.4 percent... is growing by more than 15 percent, more than two times the 7 percent headline number. As the cost
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Survey highlights households struggling with cost of living, delivers worst outlook since 2019
Economyand the same for pensions. More than half of those surveyed said that their monthly income runs out by the 18th... in ten respondents and transport is taking up more of the household budget for more than half... and levies. More than six in 10 said that the “household budget” initiative of the government has
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Political clash brewing over fatal train collision, railway safety
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe damage of those blazes in hectares, rather than in coffins, as they did under SYRIZA. For now... sources are convinced that the elections will now be held on May 14, rather than next month. The constitution allows the PM to declare the date of the elections no less than 21 days before they are due
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