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Island unrest puts PM in tough spot
PoliticsGreek Politicsof building closed reception centres on the islands is also up in the air. The clashes on Lesvos and footage... on the public health angle. The number of confirmed cases went up to three on Thursday, including
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Sealing our borders, closing our minds
Agorathe government passed a new asylum law aimed at speeding up the repatriation of economic migrants... to the refugee challenge created by the Syrian war, including the failure to come up with a new asylum
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Greece waits for tangible outcome from EU's symbolic backing over border crisis
PoliticsGreek Politicsare a direct attempt to destabilise Greece. This argument has been backed up by the absence of migrants... that the government has strong backing for its policy of stepping up border defences and suspending
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Broad consensus on border action holds, but concerns emerge over use of force and press intimidation
PoliticsGreek Politics-up on the Turkish border. On Monday, Movement for Change (KINAL) leader Fofi Gennimata called.... A separate investigation turned up evidence suggesting that Greek forces have been incorrectly using
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Poll suggests broad support for border closure, continued concern about islands
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe first major opinion poll published since the closure of Greek-Turkish border crossings appears to back up the sense that there is strong support for the government’s decision across the political... is stepping up its efforts to decongest reception centres. He said that since the start of the year
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Mitsotakis enjoys growing popular backing at home, as efforts intensify to defuse border crisis
PoliticsGreek Politicsa gearing-up of diplomatic efforts to defuse the simmering crisis on the Greek Turkish border. Turkish... our obligations under the EU deal, however the EU did not live up to its promises
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Car sales rise by 7.7 pct in February
EconomyMacroeconomyrose by 8.4 percent with the absolute figure standing at 13,994. The remainder was made up..., totalling 33,055. The remaining sales in the first two months were made up of lorries (5,436), motorcycles
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Loans under credit servicing firms rise 17.1 pct QoQ to 23.54 bln
EconomyBankingquarter-on-quarter (QoQ). Out of the total, corporate loans came to 6.40 billion, rising up by 18.3.... Loans to insurance corporations and other financial intermediaries came to 48 million, edging up
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More than a quarter of a million firms affected by enforced closures due to Covid-19
EconomyThe government’s emergency response to the coronavirus will lead to the closure to just over a quarter of a million businesses and temporary job losses for up to one million employees according... order, which included malls, cinemas, theatres, schools and educational institutions. Up to March 18
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PM increases coronavirus support package to 10 bln, while sounding dire warning to public
PoliticsGreek Politicsof up to 10 billion euros to fight the spread of the disease in Greece and support the workers... an expanded programme of testing for the virus in the community using mobile testing units. Up
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