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Benefits and banana skins for Greece in EU-Turkey refugee deal
PoliticsForeign Policyseekers will take part and there is no quota set by Brussels to keep to. This could be one... · A commitment to take in one Syrian refugee directly from Turkey for each one returned from Greece's Aegean... to open now as it fears it may lose one of the points of leverage available to convince Turkey to back
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Eurogroup grants short-term debt relief but leaves Athens fretting over fiscal targets and IMF
EconomyProgrammeother key issues. While the agreement on debt relief wraps up one loose end for the government... meeting is not one that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will easily be able to sell as a major victory in the coalition’s dealings with the institutions. Debt relief The one issue settled definitively
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Newsletter 99 - 09/12/2016
of the 2.7 million pensioners in Greece will receive a one-off payment between 300 and 830 euros... SYRIZA rose by one point to 16. According to the survey, 87.5 percent of Greeks believe the country... a critical test of preparation in July 2018 when the third programme is due to expire. On the one hand
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Coalition hits some turbulence but expects cohesion for multi-bill vote
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat its annual budget is set to increase from 650 million euros to 910 million and that around 90 percent... away, and with just one more inspection from the institutions to undergo before the summer... of strike action over the last few days, which is set to peak on Monday. The unions are protesting
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Tsipras hammers out dividing lines, trumpets battle with 'elite'
PoliticsGreek Politicsalso used the doubt over the accuracy of opinion polls to illustrate his speech as he set out... governance, distilling the challenge faced by his party into a binary “Us vs Them” struggle. One... his vision for the EP vote through the prism of national politics. “On the one side is the revived
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Mistaking tolerance for a free rein
Agorathe country forward” rather than because of negative sentiment towards SYRIZA. If one considers... administration (57 pct), delivery of justice (48 pct) and education (33 pct). While one could quibble... of these counts, cracks in this fragile pact will start to appear. On the economic front, Mitsotakis has set
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Mitsotakis sets aside talk of next Greek president to meet Trump at White House
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat has been strongly backed by Washington. The EastMed agreement will be one of the key items... distances between Greece and Turkey. Getting a better grasp of whether this is the case will be one..., government spokesman Stelios Petsas said that Mitsotakis is set to announce his choice by early February
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European Commission's travel guidance brings some optimism for Greek tourism sector
PoliticsGreek Politics. The government is also pleased that the announcements by the Commission set out a level playing-field across... countries, as well as the formation of “travel bubbles” such as the one agreed among the Baltic states. Bilateral travel agreements are one of the main planks of Greece’s post-pandemic tourism strategy
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High number of Covid-19 cases puts strain on government
PoliticsGreek Politicshealth challenge for the government, but also a political one. On Sunday, a total of 284 cases were... of the jabs, which are still in Phase 3 of development, has been set out. Mitsotakis explained in his... cases. In one of his regular news conferences last week, Deputy Civil Protection Minister Nikos
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Health service in spotlight as govt scrabbles for more measures to contain Covid
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government is set to admit defeat in its strategy for containing Covid-19 as health data continues to cause concern and new measures are set to be announced to rein in the virus. Although... on Wednesday, a day after the previous one, to decide on what restrictions should be adopted. Reports
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