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Hooliganism poses familiar set of challenges for government
PoliticsGreek Politicsof city rivals PAOK after a derby match between the two teams. The incident has been one of the leading... of priorities during the 2019 election campaign. It has shown its intentions to deal with what it saw... Athens neighbourhood of Exarchia. However, its critics argue that it has been completely
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Tsipras repeats call for elections with one eye on rising KINAL
PoliticsGreek PoliticsOpposition leader Alexis Tsipras has gone on the offensive against the government’s positive.... The SYRIZA president has also signalled the end of the grace period for new KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis..., SYRIZA lags ND by 11.7 points, while KINAL has closed in on the main opposition with a 5.4-point
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Central govt debt rises again in Q4, reaching 388.3 bln euros
EconomyMacroeconomythe Greek Loan Facility’s (GLF) bilateral loans attached to the first programme, which Greece has started... obligations to the IMF amounted to about 1.8 billion euros and the government has expressed its... in Q3 2019 and has been falling since. The debt breakdown by residual maturity showed that long-term
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Athens reaches out to Moscow while keeping eye on Ankara
PoliticsForeign Policy, Nikos Dendias noted that “Greece has always been in favour of an open and honest dialogue with Russia... of Greek diplomacy has stressed the need to observe the fundamental principles of international law... and the European Union’s position on the matter, which Greece supports. Athens has clarified that, as an EU
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High prices top list of political concerns as dissatisfaction bubbles under surface
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDemocracy has few, if any, policy options left in its arsenal to combat rising prices. There is evident..., meaning there has been a decline of more than five points in the last seven months. The recent turbulence has been exacerbated by the situation in Ukraine. Again, the government is trying to assure
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Govt bats away pushback allegations as migration attitudes harden
PoliticsGreek Politicsagency. The minister said that in the past seven years Greece has provided a safe haven for over a million people and has rescued over 230,000 people at sea since 2015. Mitarachi added, “it is deeply... and international organisations on pushbacks. Mitarachi has previously sought to discredit
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PM stands by Ukraine decision, feels vindicated on defence and foreign policies
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitstotakis has doubled down on his decision to send arms to Ukraine... supporting Ukraine with military equipment, even though Greece has avoided embroiling itself in this way... the reduction to the ENFIA property tax that the government has implemented, but said
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Enhanced support package on way to combat inflation, as govt awaits crucial nod from EU
PoliticsGreek Politics. The rise in the cost of support has set the government searching for ways to boost the size of the Energy Transition Fund which has so far been used to fund the measures. At 1 bln euros, the fund, which... January has now plateaued at 364, while hospital admissions with Covid outnumber discharges by 1.8 to 1
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DBRS moves Greece a notch closer to investment grade as Moody's holds off
Economyto the fiscal consolidation. The agency notes that the fiscal overperformance last year has led... the investment grade, which this administration has set as a national target. This is one..., that were built up. Despite the escape clause still being in place this year, Greece has committed
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Mitsotakis sweeps aside election talk as ND continues to suffer in polls
PoliticsGreek PoliticsFor the second time in a week, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has flatly denied any plans... defended the “targeted measures” that the government has taken so far but did not rule out further... party on April 5. Bogdanos has already called for cooperation with another right-wing grouping called
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