MacroPolis

Show/Hide Search

Search

Results 4781 to 4790 out of 8401. RSS

  1. SYRIZA fails to make any friends with new public sector wage grid
    Photo by MacroPolis

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    The government has found itself under attack from all sides over the changes to the public sector... of the multi-bill of prior actions that Greece has to pass in order to receive the next 1 billion euros... some employees in the public sector will see their income trimmed. This has triggered a reaction from

    3%

  2. Unemployment among Greek doctors hits record levels
    Photo by Alex Proimos via Flickr https://flic.kr/p/bt29wL

    Society

    Unemployment among Greek doctors has reached record levels, with 27.5 percent of members of the Athens Medical Association (ISA) unemployed or underemployed, a conference has heard. Data presented... in Greece is well above the European average. While Greece has 6.1 doctors per 1,000 inhabitants, the EU

    3%

  3. Opposition party leader Leventis a coalition partner-in-waiting?
    Photo by MacroPolis

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    -Independent Greeks coalition was sworn in three months ago, there has been speculation that the Union.... Leventis, once among the early members of PASOK, has spent three decades, mostly via late-night TV.... Leventis has been mostly equivocal in his stance, at times praising Tsipras and at other times being

    3%

  4. New Democracy counts down to Sunday's leadership vote
    en_GB Photo by MacroPolis

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    . Recent polls put Meimarakis ahead but also show that Mitsotakis has done a good job in raising his... to the biggest weakness that Mitsotakis has in Sunday’s contest, which is that despite his father once..., and support from first round candidate and former health minister Adonis Georgiadis, Mitsotakis has

    3%

  5. Mitsotakis win gives New Democracy chance for renewal but creates fresh risks
    Photo via @kmitsotakis

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    New Democracy, which has suffered three consecutive election defeats (four if the July referendum... that the ex-prime minister’s influence has waned and that there has been a realignment of power within... cornered. For instance, Mitsotakis has said that he will not support the government’s pension

    3%

  6. Mitsotakis targets Tsipras, floating voters and populists in first speech to his MPs
    Photo by MacroPolis

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    for the government’s proposed pension reforms, which Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos has been discussing with his eurozone counterparts over the past few days. He said that he has assembled a team... in September. Mitsotakis has also picked Cretan MP Lefteris Avgenakis, a New Democracy MP since 2007

    3%

  7. Mounting pension protests exert more pressure on coalition
    Photo by Harry van Versendaal

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    contributions and immediate cuts to new pensions) it is no surprise there has been a reaction from... the negativity flowing from the measures that it has to adopt is for it to pursue its pledge to tackle... has already supplied Athens with 10,000 data sets for bank accounts held by Greeks in Switzerland

    3%

  8. After criticism over public sector jobs, gov't names new revenues chief
    Photo by MacroPolis

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    The government’s approach to public sector appointments has drawn negative publicity in recent... doctors being forced to resign was raised. “Over the last year there has been no break with bad old... later and has, for the time being, been replaced by Stavros Lekkakos, who was previously non-executive

    3%

  9. With bailout review in balance, PASOK's role back in spotlight
    Photo by Myrto Papadopoulos [www.myrtopapadopoulos.com]

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    and tense. The likely absence of a swift conclusion to the review (Gerovasili insists that it has... “neoliberal” policies. This has opened up the possibility of PASOK and SYRIZA moving closer together... alliance. Gennimata’s scepticism towards Mitstotakis has created some friction within her party. She

    3%

  10. Mitsotakis aims to prove credentials by tackling party's finances
    Photo via @kmitsotakis

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    are just over 8 million euros, while it earns around 4 million per year. This has caused New Democracy... small, as well as large contributors. He said a new platform has been created so party members can.... Getting New Democracy into financial shape would allow Mitsotakis to argue that he has broken

    3%