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Newsletter 318 - 26/11/2021
than 1 in 5 respondents saw a significant benefit from the government’s energy support package... campaigns that saw a variety of Greek media outlets receive more than 40 million euros in total... years and the average funding cost stood at 0.31 pct.MacroeconomyCharts of the weekBudget The Finance
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Internal and external difficulties with measures expose coalition's weaknesses
PoliticsGreek Politicssigns of tension between the coalition partners emerged last week. Independent Greeks (ANEL) refused... through Parliament. Also, ANEL leader and Defence Minister publicly criticised Education Minister..., particularly as the upcoming leadership election in New Democracy may leave the ANEL president
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Kammenos's odd partnership with Tsipras still holding together
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreeks (ANEL) over the weekend, while also managing to highlight the odd nature of the cooperation... disciplinary measures. The ANEL leader has become indispensable to Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras thanks to his... both in his awarding of government positions to ANEL MPs (five of the nine lawmakers received
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Athens hopes for sub-tranche this week, ND keeps up pressure on Kammenos
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreeks (ANEL) leader Panos Kammenos. Mitsotakis pursues Kammenos Conservative leader Kyriakos... defended the ANEL leader for speaking to one of the men convicted in the case. The prime minister... and the right-wing nationalists of ANEL. There was an example of this discomfort on Wednesday, when
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Coalition's ideological contrasts highlighted but Kammenos quashes rift talk
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDefence Minister Panos Kammenos, who leads the junior coalition partner Independent Greeks (ANEL... from Archbishop Ieronymos and ANEL leader Kammenos, who maintains very close ties with the church.... It was pointed out that an ANEL MP, Dimitris Kammenos, last week voted against the provision
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Is the cost of Greece's public sector soaring again?
EconomyFeaturesAs Greece approaches the end of its bailout programme, claims are emerging that the SYRIZA-ANEL... risen by 600 million euros since the SYRIZA/ANEL government took office. This claim is supported... and cronyism are somewhat harder to dispel. The SYRIZA-ANEL government has raised eyebrows on several
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Hotel guest numbers up 8.7 percent in 2014
Economyregions showed an increase in hotel arrivals. Attica saw the biggest jump (19.5 percent), followed... Greece experienced the biggest decrease (-5.9 percent), followed by Western Macedonia (4 percent...) and Central Macedonia (11.2 percent). Hotels in Crete (62 percent), the Southern Aegean (55.3
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EastMed, defence and energy dominate Pompeo's visit, leaving Athens satisfied
PoliticsForeign Policyhis neutral stance.” Reports in The Times and the German press saw Pompeo’s visit to Greece... as well as the Interconnection Greece-North Macedonia project, and other commercially viable... of the oil pipeline between Greece and North Macedonia. In this context, a number of ministers from
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Building activity records modest growth in April, up 10 pct in first four months
EconomyMacroeconomyAgency (ELSTAT) on Friday. February this year saw the first annual decline in permits since July last..., and the largest drop in Eastern Macedonia and Thrace with 18.2 percent. Annual fluctuations were affected by low absolute numbers of building permits in most regions, with 91 in Epirus and 99 in Macedonia/Thrace
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Building activity grows by 15.8 pct in May, up 11.5 pct in first five months
EconomyMacroeconomysaw the first annual decline since July last year. The total number of permits issued in May reached..., with the biggest rise noted in Northern Aegean with 66.7 percent, and the largest drop in Western Macedonia... regions, with 75 in Northern Aegean and 35 in Western Macedonia. In absolute terms, the highest number
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