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Govt looks to tweak relief in anticipation of record Covid infections, new inflation high
PoliticsGreek Politicsof daily cases following the end of the holiday season and the reopening of schools. Speaking on Skai... daily cases recorded on January 4. Plevris noted that 1.6 million self-tests were conducted on Sunday prior to the start of the new school term, and that confirmed cases would filter through
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Newsletter 140 -17/11/2017
by 29.27 billion euros. This is mainly as a result of a fall in ELA funding by 20.91 billion and in ECB... programme was agreed. The majority of this fall (64.02 billion) comes from a lower reliance on ELA funding... offset departures of 1,891,064. Building activity falls by 5.2 pct in August Permits fall under
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General govt primary cash surplus at 1.65 bln in May on slower expenditure decline
EconomyMacroeconomyand stood at 695 million. The equivalent figure last year was 952 million. The next largest fall was in extrabudgetary funds, where a YoY fall of 241 million was observed. The total figure for this category... billion euros. This was driven primarily by a fall in interest paid (-876 million), purchases
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Greece sizes up task of restructuring corporate debt
Economy, experience from other countries showed that specific emergency actions were needed to cope with special cases as existing tools would not suffice. In all such cases, the common component was the coordinated... level rather than to just intervene at micro level. The workshop concluded that such exceptional cases
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Greece must tackle foreign bribery by Greek firms, OECD says
Societyto detect foreign bribery cases and to investigate them effectively. While it welcomed the fact that the Greek authorities are currently investigating seven foreign bribery cases involving Greek companies... into this and the other cases only began after it prompted the Greek authorities into action
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Government meets resistance on TV permits and revenues chief
PoliticsGreek Politics, setting out why she believes she has no case to answer. The legal technicalities of the two cases... of the cases, both of which emerged last week, and noted that the accusations against her come at a time that her service is due to take over responsibility for chasing major tax evasion cases from
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Turkish unrest gives Greece the shivers
Agoraand antagonism have made Athens nervier than it needs to be, but there have been specific cases of Greeks becoming convenient punchbags, in some cases literally, for Turkish frustration. History is littered... in their homeland. Nevertheless, a legal procedure for such cases is in place and Athens could not be seen
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Racist attacks fell in 2016, report by monitoring body indicates
Society, more than one victim was targeted, while in 54 cases the attack was committed by two or more people... and women. In the vast majority of cases, the perpetrators were Greek citizens, the victims said. While... have changed. Out of the 56 incidents against LGBTQI+ persons, in 46 cases the victims were
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Tsipras eyes expansionary measures in 2019 as he starts building post-MoU narrative
PoliticsGreek Politicsmay have gained more leeway in its efforts to check on older cases of suspected tax evasion. The Council of State recently ruled that any checks on cases that are more than five years old should... and that the revenue agency should decide whether this sets a precedent for other cases as well
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Could reforms have prevented Greece's economic collapse?
Agorathat examines six prior cases of reforms in product and labour markets. Both pieces of research highlight... specifically, WEO 2016 examines reform cases from the 1970-2013 period, looking at a wide range... percentage points annually over a period of five years, while in two of the six cases the gains were
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