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Govt hails success of vaccine mandate amid continuing surge in 'hard' indices of pandemic
PoliticsGreek Politicsin the coming week. Monday marked the official deadline for over-60s to get vaccinated or get fined... was announced. Speaking on the BBC World Service, Minister of State Akis Skertsos claimed that 9 in 10... and the limits on audience size at sports events. Vaxevanis The prosecution of a publisher and a former
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Top judge's resignation over election law overshadows campaigns
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat despite paying lip service to sound governance, New Democracy has tried to undermine the independence... Tsipras appeared on a YouTube sports betting channel with a younger audience. Both leaders have active official TikTok accounts, though Mitsotakis clarified recently that the Chinese social media app
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Kasselakis struggling for equilibrium at SYRIZA as another senior official quits
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDragasakis, a senior SYRIZA official who served as deputy prime minister in the coalition government led... officials to emerge from SYRIZA time in office with his reputation largely intact. Losing these kinds... the explanations given by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and other senior officials about the measure
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PM defends scepticism about name deal as he waits for official position from Skopje
PoliticsForeign PolicyAthens is waiting for the government in Skopje to take an official position amid the negative mood created by the statements and actions of the newly elected president and the prime minister of North... by the Greek PM or other government officials may also have consequences for the Greek side if the dispute ends
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Newsletter 63 - 19/02/2016
in a heap. Extricating himself without causing mortal offense would prove a momentous diplomatic feat... chiefs’ return to Athens is still unknown, their technical work with Greek officials is ongoing... Jean-Claude Juncker in November 2015, when he reportedly told the EU officials that Turkey could
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Fire fallout casts doubt on Tsipras’s post-MoU strategy
PoliticsGreek Politicsin the civil service, and fast-tracking the demolition of illegal buildings in forests and seaside areas... handled the blaze is focused largely on whether the fire service acted quickly enough, if an evacuation... been in the spotlight since last week. One government official who spoke to Naftemporiki newspaper
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Many obstacles to clear in Greece's digital leap
EconomyFeaturescountries in the index. Fast broadband and fibre coverage are growing fast but still lagging the rest of Europe significantly. Fast broadband coverage grew from 53 pct to 81 pct between 2018 and 2020... of 12). Among the general population, digital penetration is relatively low. According to official
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Government officials escalate attack on watchdogs, as spyware report touches on PM's office
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe national intelligence service and the users of Predator, Mitsotakis and his top officials appear... of the illegal spyware. Dimitriadis, who was the political overseer of the national intelligence service... the revelation that the service was tapping the phones of a number of public figures, including the head
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Newsletter 131 -15/09/2017
. even pledged to personally head a task force that would fast track major projects. After an initial... on “individual business decisions.” A senior eurozone official briefing journalists in Brussels on the agenda... to the tax-free threshold due in 2019 to be implemented earlier. A senior Finance Ministry official
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Banks moving at pace on road to recovery
EconomyBankingdebt crisis that damaged their balance sheets. In the latest official data on bad loans on the banks... the criteria of Minimum Requirement of Eligible Liabilities (MREL) set by the Supervisory Board of the ECB
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