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Greek housing market at new juncture as Covid-19 shakes foundations
EconomyFeaturesthe trend. The Covid-19 pandemic has had a chilling effect on the sector, as it has on most areas... fell by 74 pct between 2007 and 2014. Starting in 2017, there has been a slow recovery, led by Athens...-term trends, the increase in construction permits has been credited to a freeze on VAT brought
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Greece prepares to relax lockdown amid concerns about toll on economy
PoliticsGreek Politics, noting that – along with Finland – it currently has the lowest positivity rate and that the number of intubated patients has fallen substantially since the peak of more than 600 in the autumn. On Thursday... of the economy, such as retail, to start getting back to normal activity. The government has come under
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Newsletter 297 - 21/05/2021
despite an uptick in the last couple of weeks. Mitsotakis admitted that Greece has not yet built... that has been given to citizens and businesses, jeopardising the effort to bring the infection data... concern about the tourism industry’s prospects this year. The Finance Ministry, for instance, has
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Economic sentiment drops off in Sept as consumer confidence falls for fourth month
EconomyMacroeconomypoints, after a drop of 2.2 points in August. Since the start of the year, consumer confidence has improved by 6.4 points. Consumer confidence has been falling since the previous high of May when... this year, recovering from 90.7 points in January. Since the start of the year, the ESI has increased
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Newsletter 333 - 01/04/2022
to an acknowledgement that he was becoming unpopular. Androulakis has been prodded both by New Democracy and SYRIZA... summer to mitigate against price hikes. The government has made a conscious choice to avoid a major...-income households. Up to now, the budget has not been affected by the electricity bill subsidy
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Newsletter 353 - 30/09/2022
. ND has picked up 0.8 pct since late August, and SYRIZA has gained 0.6 pct, while PASOK shed 0.9 pct..., but has fallen 3.8 points from the peak experienced in the wake of the leadership elections. The boost... place in August while parliament was in recess and many Greeks were on holiday, while it has also
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Tsipras resigns, paves way for leadership contest at SYRIZA as left looks to regroup
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAlexis Tsipras has announced that he is stepping down as leader of SYRIZA after roughly 15 years... that he might seek a new mandate to stay on as leader of SYRIZA, which he has been president of since... has brief experience in government, serving as general secretary at the Shipping Ministry when
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Newsletter 397 - 13/10/2023
their trust in New Democracy and the choices it made,” said Mitsotakis. ND has a strong chance of securing... the timeline it has set out for providing compensation to farmers affected by the flooding in central Greece. This is not the first time that regional funding allocation has featured in the governing
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Newsletter 416 - 15/03/2024
, officials and relatives of the victims. However, since New Democracy has the most MPs... claimed that the report, which was adopted because the ruling party has a majority on the inquiry... in his Skai interview, saying he did not see an increased threat from New Democracy's right, he has
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Newsletter 429 - 28/06/2024
of the week that the discussion about uniting the centre-left has begun because New Democracy’s poor result on June 9 has caused concern within the “system” about Mitsotakis’s prospects and is looking... are being interpreted as an attempt to tarnish the image of his predecessor, Alexis Tsipras, who has
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