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Newsletter 490 - 16/01/2026
they were likely to support it. This puts Karystianou well ahead of a party led by Alexis Tsipras.... This was reflected in another round of credit rating upgrades during 2025 and in the comfortable rollout... for 2025 was 2.5 pct. The annual movements were led by rises of 6.9 pct in hotels, cafes
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Eight in 10 tourist visits to just five regions, six nationalities generate half of receipts
EconomyFeatures. It found that in 2018, a total of 34.8 million tourists visited Greece’s 13 regions, an increase of 12.3... euros, an increase of 8.2 percent. An average of 1.2 regions were visited per trip. However, for long haul arrivals, the number of regions visited tended to be higher. For example, visitors from
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Under pressure from public opinion, Mitsotakis concedes mistakes on Tempe
PoliticsGreek Politicssite before the investigation was concluded. In a final reversal, Mitsotakis distanced himself from... him from justice. Triantopoulos oversaw the clean-up operations at the crash site, which the families... by the National Technical University of Athens into the chemicals at the crash site, which is expected at the end
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Opposition lines up motions against government over Tempe
PoliticsGreek Politicsat the crash site. The inquiry is expected to focus on the actions of officials acting on Triantopoulos’s orders, who oversaw the removal of debris and paving over of the site just days after... that the prosecutor’s findings on the handling of the crash site had already been submitted to Parliament in August
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The nightmare of our choice
Agoraremoved carriages and earth, some of which contained human remains, from the crash site and paved... thorough or why operational decisions, such as paving over the crash site, were taken... of the crash site – the opposition will stoke up a media/social media free-for-all and we will lose
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Government struggles to escape stigma of Tempe aftermath build-up to confidence vote
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe effort to remove damaged train carriages and soil from the site of the train crash only hours after... that it intentionally intervened in the site in order to cover something up. However, its argument was undermined... of debris and paving over of the site. The government has not denied that the email was sent
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Tempe-related tension, cost of living continue to dog government
PoliticsGreek PoliticsKyriakos Mitsotakis announced a few days ago that the responsibility for looking after the site... at the site as he went on a 23-day hunger strike to force judicial authorities to allow his son’s remains... the right to intervene at the site if it is deemed necessary for security reasons. An article
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Government outlines plans for rival port to Piraeus in strategic partnership with US
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe range of its activities on the site from shipbuilding to include trade, logistics, port, energy... terminal on the site. In an early statement of intent, Guilfoyle described COSCO’s acquisition.... The latest proposals would see a much more ambitious redevelopment, utilising a 40-hectare site
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Greek stocks climb 5 pct on week led by double-digit bank gains
EconomyThe Greek equity market headed north for the second straight week recording gains of 5 percent, after a rise of 1.5 percent in the previous week. The upswing was mainly fuelled by banks, which soared 17.9 percent. Despite a negative start in the first t...
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Eurosystem funding drops by 2.80 bln in February, led by ELA reduction
EconomyMacroeconomyGreek banks’ Eurosystem funding fell by around 2.80 billion euros in February, Bank of Greece's (BoG) monthly financial statement revealed on Tuesday. This decline took central bank funding to 26.30 billion euros for the month, down from the total of 29...
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