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New Year reshuffle brings more MPs into cabinet, keeps key ministers in post
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe deputy agriculture minister. Interior Minister Takis Thedorikakos has also been left out of the new... Petsas has been appointed Alternate Interior Minister, to be replaced by Christos Tarantilis... to the right” and “a party-political balancing act”. The elevation to the Interior Ministry of Makis Voridis
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University bill threatens PASOK consensus as probes launched into alleged infractions by politicians
PoliticsGreek Politicsinvestigation in the Interior Ministry, which is the suspected source of the data leak, while on Tuesday.... The Interior Ministry has denied that it provides voters’ contact information, while the chief...’s EP elections, but also because the suspicions of a data leak emerged within days of the Interior
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Human Rights Commissioner calls for improvements to battered healthcare system
Societyof 6.8 percent while OECD data indicates that spending on healthcare has been cut by nearly a third since 2009. Around 25,000 healthcare staff were also cut. Funding of public hospitals fell by more... were cut by 20 percent, and maternal and child health services were cut by 73 percent between 2009
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Opposition cries foul on government's tax priorities
PoliticsGreek PoliticsKyriakos Mitsotakis’s announcement of a permanent cut to the controversial ENFIA property tax has... minister made the surprise announcement of a permanent 13 pct cut to the bailout-era ENFIA property... on other fronts, Mitsotakis chose to make it a cornerstone of his government’s promise to cut taxes
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Our cruel summer
Agoraferry as it was about to set sail from Piraeus to Crete. CCTV footage shows he was confronted by several...” or “Pakistani” to be used liberally as a catch-all description for anyone deemed to be inferior or dispensable
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Is Democratic Left set to make a shock return to Greece's coalition?
PoliticsGreek PoliticsWhen Democratic Left quit the coalition government in June, the possibility of the small centre-left party bridging its differences with New Democracy and PASOK seemed impossible. Suddenly, though, some kind of reconciliation – a return to the governmen...
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Unemployment hit new high of 27.8 pct in October, set to rise further
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece officially assumed the presidency of the European Union on Wednesday, with the highest unemployment rate in the 28-member bloc. According to the Hellenic Statistical Agency (ELSTAT), the seasonally adjusted jobless rate in October stood at 27.8 p...
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Long-term jobless rate of 71 pct poses new set of social challenges for Greece
SocietyThere was a time when Greece’s unemployment rate caught the media’s attention as it quadrupled from 7.3 percent in the third quarter of 2008 to the recent record high of 27.8 percent in the first quarter of 2014. There is less of a fuss these days, thou...
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Greek banks' potential capital shortfalls set to be reduced by more than 2.5 bln
EconomyGreek media reported on Tuesday that the Ministry of Finance (MoF) will soon table in Parliament a draft bill which will allow the conversion of Greek banks’ Deferred Tax Asset (DTA) into tax credit. The new legal framework has to be approved by the Eur...
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ECB set to provide extra liquidity to Greek banks but capital needs remain an issue
EconomyIn its latest comment on Greek banks, Fitch noted that they remain burdened by a large stock of non-performing loans (NPLs), despite capital enhancement and progress with their restructuring plans. On the key issue of the European Central Bank’s compreh...
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