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Government U-turns again to tighten Covid measures over Christmas
PoliticsGreek Politics, including public Christmas and New Year’s Eve celebrations, have been cancelled, while new arrivals... family members afterwards. The measures were taken on the recommendations of the government’s scientific... as of soft-pedalling in the face of the Omicron threat. Prior to Thursday’s announcements, its chosen
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Govt readies targeted support for energy bills in bid to contain cost of living crisis
PoliticsGreek PoliticsHigh energy prices continue to challenge the government’s fiscal planning going into the new year...’s Eve focussed solely on the issue of reducing the impact of high energy bills. Mitsotakis..., while retaining a 20 pct indexation to oil. Gazprom supplies over 40 pct of Greece’s natural gas
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Govt opts to reopen schools on time, drawing opposition criticism
PoliticsGreek Politicsdown if more than half the students contract the virus. If an infection is discovered, the child’s... schoolchildren contracted the virus during the last term and that the government’s decisions..., and the apparently milder impact of Omicron on people’s health, will help it ride out the coming weeks
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Govt hails success of vaccine mandate amid continuing surge in 'hard' indices of pandemic
PoliticsGreek Politicscriticism from one of New Democracy’s own MEPs. Kostas Vaxevanis, publisher of weekly investigative... Papaggelopoulos. Vaxevanis has dismissed the charges as politically motivated, while Greece’s biggest journalism... Vaxevanis and Papadakou’s journalistic integrity but warned that taking them to court for what
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Unemployment rate eases to 13.3 pct in Nov as number of employed rises sharply
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece’s seasonally adjusted (SA) unemployment rate stayed broadly stable in November at 13.3... data from the Labour Ministry’s Ergani database showed that Greece’s employment balance in December... of last year’s first lockdown, irregular conditions in the labour market due to job protection schemes
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Athens homing in on non-permanent seat at UNSC
PoliticsForeign Policylinked to either its relations with Turkey or the Cyprus issue. The same sources note that Greece’s... in connection to Greece’s candidacy are preserved and further enhanced beyond the context of the UNSC... law and the law of the sea. Through these contacts, he is trying to promote Greece’s profile
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IPI rise of 8.1 pct in Dec marks full year of growth, totalling nearly 10 pct
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece’s Industrial Production Index (IPI) recorded another notable rise of 8.1 percent year..., mainly thanks to the low base effect of the previous year’s strict first lockdown, when production... was up by 1 percent. According to the European Commission’s latest business surveys for January, industry
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Hooliganism poses familiar set of challenges for government
PoliticsGreek Politicsto discuss the government’s approach to hooliganism after the recent death of a football supporter in Thessaloniki posed the latest challenge to New Democracy’s law and order narrative. Friday’s meeting came... as disorder and lawlessness during SYRIZA’s time in power in some areas, such as universities or the bohemian
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Unemployment falls to 12.8 pct in Dec as jobless number drops to lowest since March 2010
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece’s seasonally adjusted (SA) unemployment rate dropped further in December to 12.8 percent.... The latest available data from the Labour Ministry’s Ergani database showed that Greece’s employment... the base effect of the previous year’s first lockdown, irregular conditions in the labour market
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In first contraction since Oct 2020, Jan IPI falls by 10.9 pct MoM
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece’s Industrial Production Index (IPI) recorded its first contraction in months, dropping... thanks to the low base effect of the previous year’s strict first lockdown. In October 2020 the index... Commission’s latest business surveys for February, industry confidence dropped by 3.4 points to 9.8.
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