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PM, sector leaders make it clear energy security is country's top transition priority
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe new organising principle of the transition. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis set the tone... emissions by up to 10 million tonnes annually. He added that the project has the potential to cut energy
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PM uses island visit to highlight border control as Tsipras makes decentralisation play
PoliticsGreek Politicswith his new party ELAS. The choice of Leros was deliberate, allowing the prime minister to set..., citing Dutch and Scottish consolidations as models that cut operating costs and losses. Municipal bodies
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Human Rights Commissioner calls for improvements to battered healthcare system
Societyof 6.8 percent while OECD data indicates that spending on healthcare has been cut by nearly a third since 2009. Around 25,000 healthcare staff were also cut. Funding of public hospitals fell by more... were cut by 20 percent, and maternal and child health services were cut by 73 percent between 2009
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Opposition cries foul on government's tax priorities
PoliticsGreek PoliticsKyriakos Mitsotakis’s announcement of a permanent cut to the controversial ENFIA property tax has... minister made the surprise announcement of a permanent 13 pct cut to the bailout-era ENFIA property... on other fronts, Mitsotakis chose to make it a cornerstone of his government’s promise to cut taxes
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Greece's open floodgates
Agorain by a type of Mediterranean storm known as a “medicane” that develops during this time of year... Karameros (SYRIZA) appeared on a TV panel show on Saturday wearing a fluorescent jacket of the type... that he had been selling the wrong type of clothing on his shows and that the jacket worn by the SYRIZA
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Is Democratic Left set to make a shock return to Greece's coalition?
PoliticsGreek PoliticsWhen Democratic Left quit the coalition government in June, the possibility of the small centre-left party bridging its differences with New Democracy and PASOK seemed impossible. Suddenly, though, some kind of reconciliation – a return to the governmen...
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Unemployment hit new high of 27.8 pct in October, set to rise further
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece officially assumed the presidency of the European Union on Wednesday, with the highest unemployment rate in the 28-member bloc. According to the Hellenic Statistical Agency (ELSTAT), the seasonally adjusted jobless rate in October stood at 27.8 p...
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Long-term jobless rate of 71 pct poses new set of social challenges for Greece
SocietyThere was a time when Greece’s unemployment rate caught the media’s attention as it quadrupled from 7.3 percent in the third quarter of 2008 to the recent record high of 27.8 percent in the first quarter of 2014. There is less of a fuss these days, thou...
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Greek banks' potential capital shortfalls set to be reduced by more than 2.5 bln
EconomyGreek media reported on Tuesday that the Ministry of Finance (MoF) will soon table in Parliament a draft bill which will allow the conversion of Greek banks’ Deferred Tax Asset (DTA) into tax credit. The new legal framework has to be approved by the Eur...
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