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PM appoints new national security advisor as talks with Turkey hang in balance
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced on Tuesday the appointment of Thanos Dokos to the post of national security advisor, with a mandate to formulate national security strategy and build the National Security Council, a new body created by the p...
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Re-opening plans hang in balance due to unrelenting virus
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government does not seem set to abandon its hopes of further relaxing restrictions on economic activity next week even though the Covid-19 data continues to look alarming. On Tuesday, a record 4,340 new coronavirus cases were recorded as the number ...
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Greece prepares for next stage in Covid relaxation as tourism hopes hang in balance
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe next steps in Greece’s gradual emergence from a six-month lockdown are set to be confirmed on Wednesday, although Covid-19 numbers have eased only marginally and there are doubts about the tourism sector’s ability to capitalise on the official reope...
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Implementation snags hang over ambitious post-Covid recovery plans
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreece’s national plan to allocate EU Recovery & Resilience funds is moving apace at the planning stage, but appears to be stumbling at implementation. With the post-covid stimulus package emerging as more key to economic recovery than ever in light of ...
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ND tries to swerve fresh graft claims as EP scandals, phonetapping hang over budget debate
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe Qatargate scandal centred on PASOK MEP Eva Kaili may have given ruling New Democracy some respite from defending its administration against mounting evidence of a domestic spying operation, but an investigation by the EU prosecutor into one of its o...
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Athens waits for Moscovici visit, eyes debt relief and lower volume of measures
PoliticsGreek Politicsare beaten. However, this is not enough for Athens. It also wants clarity on the fiscal targets... of Greece governor Yannis Stournaras said that some legally-binding commitment to medium-term debt relief
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This is where the last few days have left Greece and lenders
Agora, as well as the counter-measures that will be triggered if future fiscal targets are beaten. Once... in Greece. Debt relief The vital element to binding all this together and actually presenting Greece
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Newsletter 85 - 05/08/2016
Revenues beat revised target Hellenic Financial Stability Fund posts huge revaluation losses In a non-paper issued on Wednesday, the Finance Ministry clarified that budget revenues had beaten... of finding settlements for cooperative borrowers subject to their capabilities and peculiarities
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Newsletter 431 - 12/07/2024
picked the leftist opposition. Social democrats PASOK are narrowly beaten into third place with 11.1...PoliticsND faces voter displeasure as opposition looks inwardA month on from the European Parliament elections, New Democracy is finding it hard to shake off the downbeat feeling among voters, while
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New Democracy and PASOK ponder next moves after election defeat
PoliticsGreek Politics(with 4.68 percent it was beaten by Independent Greeks into seventh place among the seven parties... winning margin of more than 8.5 percentage points raises questions about whether Samaras will be able
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