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  1. Newsletter 494 - 13/02/2026

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    the handling of the sheep pox crisis. Nearly half a million animals have been culled, and breeders

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  2. Farmers roll back into Athens as government fails to resolve long-running dispute
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    compensation for income lost to sheep pox outbreaks, while reiterating the government’s refusal

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  3. Are hirings in the public sector out of control?
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    EconomyFeatures

    permanent public sector staff and 15,000 contractors, at a cost of 600 million euros. These accusations... contractors. Their numbers have swelled from 3,413 in 2012 to 15,601 at the end of 2017. By far the largest

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  4. Public sector staff trends survive MoU exit, change of government
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    Society

    in early summer. In June 2019 the number of public sector contractors was 103,213 and in June 2020 it had... in the latter part of 2019, however there was no corresponding fall in the number of contractors. New record

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  5. How the pension fund that invested heavily in Attica Bank lost half its reserves

    Agora

    The Engineers and Public Contractors Pension Fund (TSMEDE) found itself in the spotlight over the last few days as a result of being the major shareholder in Attica Bank, which faced a number of issues related to corporate governance and lending activities, according to an investigation carried out

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  6. Self-employed paying less for social security contributions, Labour ministry reports
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    EconomyFeatures

    -employed workers and reports of such workers deregistering from the status of “self-employed” en masse... Engineers and Public Contractors Pension Fund (TSMEDE) fund compared to 64.2 percent in 2017

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  7. Coalition's moves on public sector hirings under scrutiny
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    Minister Pavlos Polakis said that the government has replaced contractors in catering, cleaning

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  8. Is a lack of spending hampering Greece's firefighting capabilities?

    Society

    , which contribute seasonal contractors to the fire-fighting effort, have also enjoyed a greater

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  9. Authorities struggle with islanders' resistance to closed centres for migrants
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    the contractors for bulldozing forested public land to build roads to one of the sites. Violence erupted

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  10. Minister discounts lockdowns, vaccine mandate extension amid Covid surge
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    limited private sector activities. As such, it would have been a shot in the arm for the contractors

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