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Govt targets unvaccinated with new Covid restrictions, drawing more claims of muddled approach
PoliticsGreek Politicsor restaurant is much higher than in a church. The latest decision is in keeping with the government’s... the vaccinated. The official government line has been to put moral pressure on the unvaccinated once it became... in northern Greece because the vaccine uptake there is lower than in Athens as a result of that part
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Newsletter 315 - 05/11/2021
to be seen to be taking back freedoms from the vaccinated. The official government line has been to put... following the better-than-expected tourism season and the strong growth reported by ELSTAT... that the package put together to ride out the energy hikes storm until the end of the year
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PM makes new bid to address Covid wave, speculation about restrictions
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe virus. It is thought that the prime minister wants to put an end to the gossip around this issue... the recent extra demands put on the unvaccinated. Beyond whatever thoughts the premier may have... longer to overcome than Greek authorities initially anticipated. Opposition response SYRIZA discounted
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Govt treads carefully on economic relief measures, hoping normality is near
PoliticsGreek Politicseconomies than Greece’s, it could put Athens under the spotlight as the discussion about reshaping... programme for firms that are directly affected by the tighter Covid restrictions put in place... that according to ELSTAT, sales in the first nine months of 2021 were 1.7 billion euros lower than in 2019
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ND and SYRIZA exchange broadsides, KINAL catches some flak
PoliticsGreek Politicsthan they were earlier in the week, when the government was bombarded with criticism as the state... felt it had the opportunity to defend its record and, as Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis put... of the previous SYRIZA government. The Mati fire of 2018, where more than 100 people lost their lives
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Opposition cries foul on government's tax priorities
PoliticsGreek Politicsannouncement, the total reduction will be significantly higher than the 70 million euros reduction... existence of ENFIA describing it as an extractive policy rather than economic policy. KINAL focussed... on the same time as announcing tax breaks on big property ownership. Georgiadis Documents put
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Govt turns attention to more relief measures in absence of snap polls
PoliticsGreek Politicsin September/October abound in the absence of any official explanation. One of the possible reasons put... pensions in 2023, by up to 5 pct, for the first time in more than a decade. Another increase... Ministry can put towards more cost-of-living relief measures, such as an extension of the Fuel Pass
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ND faces fiscal balancing act and more challenges over spying scandal
PoliticsGreek Politicswith the government’s performance stands at 35 pct, although this is higher than the approval ratings...: 57 pct of respondents put in their three choices, followed by “national issues” and low wages... capable than SYRIZA in handling economic matters (43 vs 32), natural disasters (39 vs 23) and foreign
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Parties tussle over scope of surveillance probe as latest poll puts Mitsotakis in frame
PoliticsGreek Politicsnot and should not respond” on the reasons that Androulakis was put under surveillance. Earlier in the day... should be put at the disposal of Parliament’s institutions and transparency committee. Meanwhile, more.... Roussopoulos argued that a more conclusive approach than the parliamentary route would
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Athens responds to Erdogan's accusations as Mitsotakis readies UN address
PoliticsForeign PolicyAssembly in New York to put under the spotlight their outstanding differences on several issues... slammed Athens for employing policies that put migrants’ lives in danger. "We see that Greece's... “what happened to the Greek community of Istanbul and how the thriving – with more than 100,000
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