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Watchdog raid strains testy relationship between banks and govt
EconomyBankingis an independent authority and as such no government official was informed or involved in any way... topic a couple of weeks ago when the Greek systemic banks announced a coordinated rise in their service... customer charges for various services in the domestic market. The raid lasted up to the late hours
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Crunch time nears for health system as Covid surge meets staff suspensions
PoliticsGreek Politicswithout pay. Official figures show that up to 20,000 hospital workers (almost 20 pct of the total) have... rates are lowest in the fire service, where just over half the force is vaccinated. Wildfire debate... lined up for the vaccine mandate are the emergency services, which have some of the lowest reported
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Mitsotakis rules out another lockdown, dismisses criticism of new Covid measures
PoliticsGreek Politicsexceptional status accorded to the church and uniformed service personnel a desire to pander to conservative and far-right voters, and has accused Mitsotakis in an official statement of “political... services and the armed forces, admitting that the government had been surprised and deterred
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Balance of payments shows shipping on course for bumper year, but economic benefits unclear
EconomyFeaturescompared to 6.4 billion for the same period in 2021 according to official figures from the Bank... it also accounted for over a third of all of service receipts, where historically it is surpassed only... restrictions on Russian oil have increased the demand for shipping services. Somewhat controversially, many
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Govt unveils spyware bill as it launches communications fightback
PoliticsGreek PoliticsIntelligence Service (EYP), including the creation of an internal audit unit, and allows people who have... the drafting of the bill, given that it is the official watchdog for such issues.... of spyware and any other form of wiretapping that is not conducted by the intelligence services
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Flurry of bills due in Parliament as legislative work resumes
PoliticsGreek Politicsof corruption and cronyism within the service. It is Chrysochoidis’s fifth stint at the ministry, which.... The consensus at the time was that the former PASOK official was removed from his post because of a poor response from emergency services to wildfires, but also because the police had attracted
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Fight against tax evasion yields results, reveals challenges
Societyof a new, independent revenue-collecting service provides hope that Greece is on the way towards having... also come under the new official’s control or remain under the auspices of the prime minister. Some
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SYRIZA gives up on "odious debt" write-off but not major debt relief
PoliticsGreek Politicsper year to service it," he said. "This must come from budget surpluses and privatisations. It is our... overwhelmingly in the official sector. In his interview, Stathakis suggests that Greek debt will have
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Greek pensions: The thorniest issue in talks between Athens and lenders
EconomyProgrammeand not a horizontal cut across the board. According to the latest official figures from the social security system’s online service (IDIKA), a total of 4.54 million pensions were paid to 2.65 million pensioners
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Greek pensions laid bare
AgoraThe latest official figures provided by the social security system’s online service (IDIKA
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