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With eye on elections, Tsipras talks up public sector hirings
PoliticsGreek Politicshirings are expected each year until 2022 to make up for the expected departure (mostly retirement... by the removal of the priests from the payroll will not be made until 2020, the positions will be made... to be beaten in those ballots and it would risky to hold a national vote in the wake
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It's the hope that kills you
Agoranot have to quarantine in their room until their results were available. It is believed that the quarantine requirement until the test was cleared was dropped after pressure from the tour operators... with the message of the authorities that Greece had beaten the pandemic and was now open for business
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Fires cast growing shadow as new shipwreck probe is announced
PoliticsGreek Politicsgrocery bill subsidy, available to as many as 2.8 million households, until the end of October. Also.... There are questions about the Greek coast guard’s actions in relation to the sinking, with numerous... adopted by the Greek coast guard and EU border agency Frontex in such cases. She will be working
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Opposition lines up motions against government over Tempe
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat it will not back it until all the reports currently in progress have been made available... that eight senior coast guard officers could be liable for prosecution for neglecting their search... for the deaths from the people smugglers to the coast guard. The Shipping Ministry, meanwhile
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Greece gets new finance minister but old guard dominates cabinet reshuffle
PoliticsGreek PoliticsEnding days of speculation, the new Greek cabinet was named on Monday, with Eurobank economist Gikas Hardouvelis being appointed Yannis Stournaras’s successor at the Finance Ministry. Hardouvelis’s appointment was by far the most notable. There was no c...
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Erdogan makes forceful start to visit, catches Athens off guard
PoliticsForeign PolicyThe Greek government found itself in an uncomfortable position on Thursday, the first day of a visit by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who called for the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne, which delimited the boundaries between the two countries, to be r...
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PMI at 54.2 in Feb as new clients and overseas orders spur growth
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece’s manufacturing PMI increased to 54.2 points in February from 53.7 points in January, staying over the 50-mark threshold for close to two years. PMI noted that the latest reading was the best since May 2018. It also stood above the long-run serie...
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Budget deficit of 6.38 bln in Aug confirmed; target beaten due to one offs
EconomyMacroeconomyThe budget primary balance was confirmed at a deficit of 6.38 billion euros in the first eight months of 2021, compared with a deficit of 5.48 billion in the same period last year, the final Finance Ministry (MoF) budget execution data showed on Monday....
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VAT and income taxes buoy revenue performance as primary surplus target is beaten in Sep
EconomyMacroeconomyThe budget primary balance in September was confirmed at a surplus of almost 6 billion euros, compared to a surplus of 52 million euros in the same month of 2022, according to the final Finance Ministry (MoF) budget execution data released on Wednesday....
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Coalition ministers, MPs wrestle with implications of Eurogroup agreement
PoliticsGreek Politicsa discount until now. He was beaten to it, though, by Defence Minister Panos Kammenos, who leads
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