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UK and EU travel restrictions raise concerns for tourism season
PoliticsGreek Politicsof Greek tourism from May 14. Package tour operators TUI reported a freeze on foreign holiday..., Saudi Arabia, Russia and China. Already, the Greek Civil Aviation Authority has increased the limits...”. The agreement will secure an initial payment of 915 million euros from the developer to the Greek
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Podcast - Long live the revolution: The legacy of Greece's 1821 war of independence
AgoraGreek History at York University in Canada. He told The Agora about where the Greek revolution stands... forward by talking to Kathimerini columnist Nikos Konstandaras about the Greek revolution's legacy, where
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Covid worries bring more wear and tear for govt, but no momentum for opposition
PoliticsGreek Politics, SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras did draw parallels between the Greek revolution 200 years ago... scandals in previous decades involving the German company’s Greek branch. Also, at the time... reports indicated he was among several Greek politicians that received gifts from the company. Opinion
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PM trails national recovery plan ahead, talks up growth prospects
PoliticsGreek Politicsin investments. The prime minister hailed the plan as “a unique opportunity to radically change the Greek..., where the Greek plan was said to be among the most comprehensive. However, many hurdles will need... on the Greek government’s plans to leverage EU loans through the banking system, as explained at Monday
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BoG sees 4.2% recovery in 2021, re-emphasises need for bad bank
Economystance on the Greek economy, while it highlighted the challenges faced by the country’s banking..., which the BoG has developed and presented to the Greek government for consideration. BoG says that the pandemic will have an impact of 8-10 billion euros on Greek banks’ balance sheets and the portion
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ND wrong-foots SYRIZA with call to lift expat vote restrictions
PoliticsGreek Politicsand opposition SYRIZA, as a new bill proposes to open up remote voting to the Greek diaspora... as December 2019, which first gave Greek expats the right to vote from their country of residence... spokesperson on expatriate affairs Theodora Tzakri in an interview to the Greek diaspora newspaper
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Set-to in Ankara well received in Athens, where Covid-19 data causes worry
PoliticsGreek PoliticsFriday’s news agenda in Greece was dominated by the terse exchanges a day earlier between the Greek..., officials also made it known to the Greek media that Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis had given... there tends to be a lack of nuance in the way Greek-Turkish relations are viewed. The ruling
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Stability Programme reflects subdued expectations for 2021, high hopes for 2022 onwards
EconomyMacroeconomyas the pandemic still has a hold on the Greek economy and the expected flow of RRF funds has been scaled back... attention to the role of the RRF, which is seen injecting into the Greek economy 30.5 billion euros up..., as the Greek plan is called, aspires to add 60.5 billion of investment resources to the economy
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Tussle over labour reforms shaping up as spark for broader political battle
PoliticsGreek Politicsacross is that opinion polls have consistently shown that the Greek public has little appetite to hear... of 2020. The media reports also highlighted the lack of trust in the Greek government... Greek pollsters have been indicating, which is that years of economic crisis, now compounded
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Govt on alert for possible fallout from tapering of pandemic relief measures
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat it has offered Greek businesses since the beginning of the pandemic. New Democracy officials... in Kathimerini on Saturday a Greek Fiscal Council study found that although Greece had the largest... the direct spending by the Greek state, just 41.2 pct of lost income was recovered, placing Greece
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