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  1. Athens readies labour legislation, but not to cross off prior actions
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    After a brief summer break, the Greek government is preparing to resume legislative activity, although its next move will not be linked to dozens of bailout commitments that are still pending. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras met with Labour Minister Efi A...

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  2. Tsipras eyes review conclusion, insists SYRIZA patience will pay off
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras assured SYRIZA’s political secretariat on Monday that the government will manage to wrap up the third review on time and that better days are on the way for his party. Speaking to SYRIZA officials after the departure of the...

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  3. Erdogan makes forceful start to visit, catches Athens off guard
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    The 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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  4. How Greece sleepwalked off a cliff in 2009, in black and white

    Agora

    Nine years since facing bankruptcy and subsequently having experienced the most severe economic crisis in its modern history, which took away a quarter of the economy and employment, a country should at least have identified the reasons that it found it...

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  5. Eurogroup suggests there is scope for pension cuts to be called off

    EconomyProgramme

    The Greek government was given the clearest indication yet on Monday that its European lenders may agree to its request to scrap the pension cuts that are due to be implemented from the start of next year. The issue was not on the official agenda of Mon...

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  6. Hirings balance negative by 33,249 in November as seasonality impact begins to tail off
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    The employment balance remained negative in November for a second consecutive month with 33,249 more departures than hirings, according to data form the Labour Ministry’s Ergani information system. However, compared to November 2017, there were an addit...

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  7. More fiscal measures lined up as Covid-19 seen shaving up to 0.9 pts off 2020 growth
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    Economy

    The government is lining up more fiscal measures to prop up the economy as forecasters becoming increasingly gloomy about the impact of the coronavirus. The legislative act for the first set of measures to support businesses affected by the virus was du...

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  8. Athens treads fine line as talks with Ankara beckon following Aegean stand-off
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    Just a few days following Turkey’s decision to abstain from seismic research in disputed areas in the Aegean as a gesture of goodwill that could facilitate the beginning of discussions between Athens and Ankara, the situation does not look straightforwa...

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  9. Govt tries to fend off claims of disarray in Covid-19 reporting, coordination

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    The government is under intense pressure over its handling of the Covid-19 crisis after media reports over the weekend suggested that there had been serious faults in the way the National Health Organisation (EODY) handled data, based on which experts w...

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  10. Eurobank posts loss of 1.21 bln euros in 2020 as it sheds off bad loans
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    EconomyBanking

    Eurobank posted its biggest loss since 2014 last year as the price of a restructuring that will bring down its bad loans ratio to a level approaching the European average. The full-year loss for 2020 came to 1.21 billion euros, compared with a profit of...

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