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PM makes slowing spread of coronavirus his main goal
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis made his first televised address regarding the coronavirus on Wednesday evening, just hours before the first death from the illness in Greece was confirmed. In his message, Mitsotakis identified the main goal as being to spread out the number of cases over as long
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Impact of EP elections continues to reverberate across main parties
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreece’s main political parties are still struggling to process the implications of the EP election results. Two weeks after both failed to deliver on their targets, PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis is set to hear the grievances of New Democracy MPs, while SYRIZA leader Stefanos Kasselakis appears to have
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PASOK emerges as main beneficiary in reshuffling of political deck
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the main opposition for his party. PASOK is now in joint second place with SYRIZA with 31 seats
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Overdue contributions rise at accelerating pace of 615 mln in Q4, stock climbs to 17.54 bln
EconomyMacroeconomy) to 615 million euros in the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2016, from 310 million in the previous quarter... 5,000 euros from the four main Greek pension funds. It excludes those created by general government... percent of total) involve main SSC debt and the remaining 4.92 billion surcharges and penalties
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H1 bank results show performance stabilising, laying ground for further improvement
EconomyBankingin H1, an increase of 54 percent YoY. This was followed by NBG, where PPI rose by 26 percent to 310... million euros. The main driver behind this increase was the merger with Grivalia Properties REIC... taken in the previous quarter, management noted. The main drivers were credit cards, payments
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Rival parties interpret Novartis settlement differently, serving own ends
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe two main parties in Greece. New Democracy argued that the absence of any substantiated claims... statement, the opposition party noted that 310 mln dollars from the settlement, the overwhelming... taken by the two main parties have been reflected almost identically in the media, with government
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PM pledges handouts amid discontent and gripes over coronavirus strategy
PoliticsGreek Politicsreached 310. Mitsotakis’s chief of staff, Akis Sketsos, indicated that the government will monitor... change in support for the main parties, although it will undoubtedly be a concern to Mitsotakis and his... SYRIZA has seen a slight drop to 22.7 pct since October. The main winner of these small fluctuations has
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Centre-left parties jockey for position ahead of EP elections
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe main opposition party appears locked in a state of paralysis, developments within the broader... can achieve tangible results. Against this backdrop, Kasselakis’s stunt appeared to raise questions... that is not finding representation in the existing parties. Kokkalis is the son of a prominent Greek entrepreneur
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ND lead unabated in face of last-minute disputes over migrant boat sinking, minority votes
PoliticsGreek Politics. Despite the questions lingering over this particular incident, ND appears to be winning the broader argument on migration. With most surveys showing that economic stability is the main battleground.... Moreover, the argument plays out against a backdrop of widespread public intolerance. In a recent
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ND tries to play down resurfacing of Predator as PASOK seeks to recast itself
PoliticsGreek Politicsthis backdrop, PASOK opens its 4th Regular Congress at the Tae Kwon Do Stadium in Athens with the aim... that a separate resolution would expose internal division, whereas embedding the position in the main... the congress to mark the beginning of a winning pre‑election trajectory and to demonstrate that its
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