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Mitsotakis defends pandemic handling, denies snap election plans
PoliticsGreek Politicscontinue to prop up the businesses which were suffering due to the lockdown, while looking forward... of the social solidarity top-up tax. Having just launched the six-year national recovery plan, dubbed
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ND wrong-foots SYRIZA with call to lift expat vote restrictions
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe expat vote has become the latest pretext for a flare-up between the New Democracy government and opposition SYRIZA, as a new bill proposes to open up remote voting to the Greek diaspora. On Monday, Interior Minister Makis Voridis tabled a bill in Parliament lifting restrictions on Greeks voting
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SYRIZA targets middle class with own plan for post-pandemic economic rebound
PoliticsGreek Politicsin overdue debt to the state and pension funds that has built up since the start of the pandemic... was picked up by government spokesperson Aristotelia Peloni, who spoke of SYRIZA’s imaginary “money tree
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Govt forced to back down over Easter travel, turns focus to May re-opening
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat it could build up to a return to normality from Orthodox Easter onwards. However, conditions in public..., up from 51% last month and 36% when the vaccination programme began in earnest in January. In terms
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Mitsotakis attempts to clarify plans for post-Easter reopening
PoliticsGreek Politicsprogramme. Mitsotakis announced that in the coming week appointments would open up under express procedures for the 30-39 age group in order to speed up the building of a “wall of immunity” in the country
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PM targets middle class voters as he eyes return to normality
PoliticsGreek Politicsup by New Democracy is regarded as a flagship policy that will attract the support of much of Greece... is clearly shaping up to be the first major political tug-of-war in Greece that is not connected
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A brief lexicon of the Cyprus issue negotiations
AgoraHere we go again. After a hiatus of more than 3 years, the negotiations for the resolution of the Cyprus issue have resumed this week. The Cypriot Bill Murray wakes up to yet another Groundhog Day...-territorial) autonomy for the two ethnic groups by setting up two separately elected communal
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Stability Programme reflects subdued expectations for 2021, high hopes for 2022 onwards
EconomyMacroeconomyis expected to grow by an impressive 6.2 pct, assisted by investments shooting up by roughly 1/3, 30.3 pct... attention to the role of the RRF, which is seen injecting into the Greek economy 30.5 billion euros up
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General govt primary deficit at 3.87 bln in March; spending soars
EconomyMacroeconomyof the total, hospitals made up the largest part of the arrears in March. Debt Central government gross debt... by 1.48 billion euros, making up 9.9 percent of the total, while T-bills rose 3.2 percent to 400
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Under scrutiny, government defends vaccine strategy
PoliticsGreek Politics, the data shows that the vaccination rate in Greece has picked up over the last few weeks... at which doses are being administered has picked up since the authorities brought forward the starting
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