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Parties at odds over latest pandemic measures, way to tackle Covid wave
PoliticsGreek Politicsand they will be required to get a booster jab to renew the permit. The government sees the measures... to deal with the pandemic via televised addresses rather than actual policies. He argued that the prime... hospitals which, he argued, are doing little else other than dealing with Covid patients. He cited
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ND sees limited political threats on path to next year's elections
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the reasons that the draft budget for 2023, which was tabled on Monday, has a lower than expected primary...-Turkish relations than they would in Alexis Tsipras, but he is also aware that if the threat from across the Aegean subsides as the elections in Greece (as well as Turkey) get closer, this will remove
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Newsletter 23 - 17/04/2015
that this reflects his view, rather than the consensus within the government. by Antonis Samaras... to believe that the situation would be any different for Tsipras. He might be able to get away with VAT rises... view, rather than the consensus within the government. Energy Minister Panayiotis Lafazanis
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Newsletter 44 - 25/09/2015
work but will also need to get to grips with the administrative and logistical side of the challenge... to get his parliamentary group to read from the same page. However, total unity cannot be guaranteed... of the third memorandum of understanding (MoU) in mid-August. Since then, the better than expected GDP growth
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Newsletter 58 - 15/01/2016
. The government strongly insists on increasing revenues rather than cutting costs (i.e. pensions... as favouring “neoliberal” positions that are even more drastic than those of the institutions... of 30.1 percent but better than the 1.3 percent increase in 2013. Last year's increase was considerably
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Newsletter 69 - 08/04/2016
and, consequently, slightly upped the relevant rates for those with more than 25 working years... drop in the number of refugees and migrants reaching Greece last week, with less than 100 arrivals one... to the seasonally unadjusted data, the number of employed fell by more than 86,000 to 3.55 million, while
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Newsletter 75 - 27/05/2016
of no more than 1.5 percent of GDP, compared to the 3.5 percent envisaged in the third eurozone bailout... a high of 220.43 billion at the end of December and currently make up more than 68 percent of central... pretty simple: look no further than German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble. Even when it appeared
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Three-quarters of Greek workforce struggles to make ends meet
Societythan double the EU average, according to a report by Eurofound, an EU agency that studies living... percent of workers said their household struggled to get by. In Greece, five percent said they could get by “very easily” and 19 percent “fairly easily”, both of which were the lowest rates in the EU
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Newsletter 180 -26/10/2018
in the Greek media this week suggested that Tsipras has already begun work on a plan to get... that the prime minister will be able to call on the support of some opposition and independent MPs to get... that the current set of decision makers have a higher standard of ethics than their predecessors. Tsipras
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The Greek election's winners and losers
Agoraless damaged than he expected to be. Considering that SYRIZA gained just over 23 percent... vote was a much better performance than expected. SYRIZA lost around 145,000 votes (and 4 percentage... poll data, SYRIZA’s support among younger voters was 8 points stronger than for ND. This is also
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