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Second round of local elections deliver worrying results for PM, glimmer of hope for opposition
PoliticsGreek Politics. However, he was soundly beaten by Dimitris Kouretas, a candidate put forward by centre-left PASOK... on social media. It should also be noted that the Communist Party (KKE) saw its candidates win six
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Greek teachers low paid, but work shorter hours in smaller classes
Societyqualifications earned 60 percent of the OECD average of $42,825. Greek teachers also saw their salaries..., Greek teachers also saw their net salaries shrink as a tax for solidarity was created. This tax..., with nine pupils per teacher, below the OECD average of 15 and much below Mexico, where there are 28
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Govt mulls tighter controls on movement, seeks to boost health supplies and Covid-19 tests
PoliticsGreek Politicsacknowledged that they are finding it difficult to secure hospital supplies, including ventilators... associations called on the government to provide personal protective equipment to surgeries, after finding..., equating to roughly around 1,500 tests per one million people. The number puts Greece behind Germany
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Newsletter 183 -16/11/2018
will reportedly gain between 200 and 4,700 euros per year as a result of the reduction... apartments, classified as over five years old, saw their prices increase by 2.2 percent in Q3 compared to a rise of 1.2 percent in Q2. Properties up to five years old saw price increases of 2.9
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Greece tops EU tables for lawyers but also pending administrative court cases
SocietyGreece tops the EU league tables in terms of the number of lawyers per population and has by far... per 100,000 in 2010 to 388 per 100,000 inhabitants in 2014. Also registering a high proportion... 6.4 cases per 100 inhabitants in 2012, compared to 21 in the EU – it was at the upper end
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October revenues reverse earlier shortfall, annual primary surplus in sight
Economyto the targets being beaten over the last four months, even though there is a steady increase in unpaid taxes by more than 600 million per month and b) expenditure deferral, particularly regarding
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Increased revenues push Greek budget primary surplus up to 2.28 bln at end of July
EconomyMacroeconomyand means that the primary surplus target was beaten by 1.48 billion euros. The fiscal performance... period. This implies that the tax debt is increasing on average by 1.04 billion per month in 2014
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New overdue taxes rise by 489 mln in Mar, total legacy and new debt at 104.5 bln
EconomyMacroeconomycollected per month in the first three months of the year, another 880 million in taxes went unpaid... 81.5 percent in the first quarter of 2019, meaning that the target was beaten.
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Pressure from government MPs pushes PM towards resolution with farmers
PoliticsGreek Politics“beaten up out there”, while others claimed they were fearful of being “lynched” if they attempted... on electricity tariffs for farmers at 9 cents per KWh and a 50 percent increase in fuel tax rebates
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From pipe dreams to power cables: the changing map of Greece's energy ambitions
Agoraenergy dependency on exporting countries grew from 68 per cent in 2010 to 74 per cent in 2021... the uptake of natural gas for heating. At the same time, however, 2022 saw a ramping up of exports... secured an estimated 16 billion euros of funding – approximately 45 percent of its share of the EU
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