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Government unveils 2026 reform agenda as Karystianou party continues to shake up politics
PoliticsGreek PoliticsKarystianou could muster a support level of up to 31 percent, significantly higher than established
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Mitsotakis continues balancing act with compromise EU proposal on Trump’s Peace Council
PoliticsGreek Politicssentiment remains sour, though. More than two‑thirds of respondents believe Greece is heading
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Strong primary surplus of over 8 bln at close of 2025 as spending is contained
EconomyMacroeconomy. The overall balance is better than the target by 2.69 billion euros. Revenues At 77.07 billion euros, net
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Unemployment rate down to 7.5 pct in Dec, lowest since Nov 2008
EconomyMacroeconomybalance was negative in October with 120,019 more departures than hires. For the ten months of 2025
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Retail sales growth slows to 1.7 pct YoY in Nov on back of sharp drop in fuel transactions
EconomyMacroeconomysignificantly lower than the 0.3 points of January 2025.
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Deadly factory blast sparks debate on workplace safety
PoliticsGreek Politicsto complaints rather than on a systematic basis. In the case of the Violanta factory, the deputy
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Mitsotakis seeks to wrestle back initiative by launching new revision of Greek Constitution
PoliticsGreek Politicsmust finally allow private higher‑education institutions “properly and constitutionally”, rather than
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Labour market ends 2025 with a positive hiring balance of 77,074 jobs
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece’s employment balance ended 2025 with 14,524 more departures than hires in December, according to data from the Labour Ministry’s ERGANI information system. The hiring balance in December last year was also negative with 14,218 more departures, leading to a minor year-on-year deterioration
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Athens claims Ankara meeting smoothed relations despite lack of progress on key issues
PoliticsGreek Politicsrefuses to budge on matters of international law the talks are no more than “crisis management”. PASOK
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Newsletter 494 - 13/02/2026
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