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Fires latest obstacle to coalition's momentum-building efforts
PoliticsGreek Politicsthan three days in the area of Kalamos, north of Athens. The Tsipras administration also said... greater than the 1,500 hectares Tsipras had suggested was affected when he visited the area on Wednesday. In fact, the SYRIZA leader highlighted that the level of damage was much less than in 2009
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China’s Footprint in Southeast Europe: Constructing the "Balkan Silk Road"
Agoramodernization. These projects form part of regional, rather than country-specific initiatives that Chinese... railway initiative. For both cities, such a project has been on the agenda for more than a decade... rhetoric than substance. China is only at the beginning of a much larger engagement in the region
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Survey reveals working lives, job-finding trends of young Greeks
Societyof men working while studying was higher than that for women, and Greek citizens were notably more likely to work during their studies than non-Greeks. Age was also a factor: 29.1 percent of those... percent said that they wanted to work rather than study, 13.2 percent were put off by the difficulty
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Newsletter 145
to confirm the completion of the review. In the meantime, more than 30 amendments were tagged onto two... dividend, which resulted in 1.3 million applicants receiving more than 700 million euros, the coalition... to total no more than 20 million euros), reports suggested that the lenders are annoyed due to a lack
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Business balance positive in 2017, small companies continue to dominate
EconomyFeaturesadditional companies registered in 2017 than delisted. Since 2011, a negative balance has been noted... activity on the platform than becoming active. There was a 5.8 percent increase in new companies forming... for those under 35 with less than 5 insured years. The knock-on effect of this is visible in GEMI’s
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Parliamentary inquiry to handle bribery claims as parties build differing narratives
PoliticsGreek PoliticsA debate lasting more than 20 hours ended early on Thursday with Parliament voting to set up... probed, will be sent back to the judiciary for further investigation rather than to a special court... imposed. He suggested, though, that this involved medical professionals rather than politicians. He
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Newsletter 152 -23/02/2018
by the end of the programme in August. The total figure is now seen at 16.4 billion euros rather than... politicians were bribed by the pharmaceutical giant. During a debate lasting more than 20 hours, New... been fully probed, will be sent back to the judiciary for further investigation rather than
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Whether an "early" or "clean" exit, it's the same old story for Greece
Agora, this time with a mandate to implement the third MoU rather than to rip up the second, as was the case... and the return of growth. The SYRIZA leader hopes to leave this as his (positive) legacy rather than... territory when the third MoU ends on August 20. While putting asside more than eight years
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Overdue social security debt at 31.87 bln in Q1, debtors at 1.2 mln
EconomyMacroeconomy) revealed. Until the end of 2016, KEAO was fed by overdue contributions of more than 5,000 euros from... from various funds, as mentioned previously, which totalled more than 1 million across the year... that 69 percent of debtors owe less than 15,000 euros each for an aggregate amount of 3.36 billion
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Newsletter 166 -15/06/2018
settle a diplomatic dispute that has dragged on for more than a quarter of a century. Under... A diplomatic standoff that’s extended into nearly three decades seemed closer than ever to a solution... with the Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos, thereby trying to give an institutional, rather than
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