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Govt's management of Covid-19 response challenged again after latest measures, PM’s trip
PoliticsGreek Politicsadvising the government on its Covid-19 policy met, as always, on Friday to come up with its latest... to be staging such public events the day after Covid-19 restrictions had been tightened up. Matters were... taken up. Attica remains a hotspot for the virus, with just over half of all cases detected in Greece
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Impending lockdown decision highlights cabinet tensions, casts unflattering spotlight on experts
PoliticsGreek Politicsof a stricter lockdown has opened up divisions among cabinet members, experts and interest groups... to last into the spring. The pressure is opening up fissures within the cabinet that are spilling out... the public debate, while up until now the government and most of the media have taken a reverential
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PM aims to press ahead with reform agenda in face of scandals and pandemic
PoliticsGreek Politicsinitiatives, with which the government hopes to keep up the pace of reform and make a tangible... programme” right up until the end of June 2021. Top of the agenda is a labour reform bill, which has... and the world of organised sport. Keeping up the pace of legislation is almost a goal in itself for a prime
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Health service in spotlight as govt scrabbles for more measures to contain Covid
PoliticsGreek Politicscases – the highest daily total so far this year. The number of intubated patients has shot up... of losing all the political capital it had built up from the competent handling of the first... that N17 failed to terrorise the Greek people and state via its activity. SYRIZA followed this up
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New political clash over police violence, but ND seems unperturbed
PoliticsGreek Politicsto disperse crowds. This official line was also picked up by much of the Greek media, drawing criticism... heavy-handedness, which critics claim is being covered up or ignored by the government-friendly media... of such issues, leaving it to other government representatives to take up the verbal battle with SYRIZA
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Clashes add to political tension over division, police violence
PoliticsGreek Politicsbeen aggressive, although this is not backed up by video footage. Meanwhile, eye-witness reports... set up to monitor police violence, headed by constitutional expert Nikos Alivizatos, has wound-up
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Alpha Bank posts net profit of 103.7 mln in 2020
EconomyBankingcame to 388 million in Q4, up by 1.6 percent QoQ. On a full-year basis, NII fell by 0.4 percent to 1.54..., the Common Equity Tier 1 (CET1) ratio stood at 17.3 percent, up from 17.2 percent in September. The fully loaded total CET 1 stood at 14.8 percent, up 20 basis points QoQ. The bank’s Total Capital
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Excess of vaccines in Serbia will go to waste
Agora. The demand was still strong, people were looking for connections to hook them up with a vaccine... mantras, even the highest officials have been hinting at numbers needed for herd-immunity by adding up... up one’s sleeve. In that regard, the authorities in Serbia are publicly boasting about
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Has external competitiveness been fixed in Greece?
Agorais called the real effective exchange rate (REER). When the REER goes up, it means that domestic... that in the 1990s, Greece lost competitiveness as prices in Greece went up faster than among its global trading... of them. How do you resolve this without blowing up the external deficit again? Further work is needed
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Re-opening plans hang in balance due to unrelenting virus
PoliticsGreek Politicssuggested that up to 50 patients in Athens had to wait 24-36 hours before being admitted to ICUs... is attempting to turn up the pressure on SYRIZA and one of its leading representatives, former digital policy minister Nikos Pappas. On Tuesday, 187 out of 300 MPs voted in favour of Parliament setting up
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