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Tsipras conducts varied reshuffle in further bid to revitalise coalition
PoliticsGreek Politics. The justice portfolio is a significant one for the coalition as it has come under considerable criticism... that it has tried to interfere in the judicial process. At 42, Kalogirou is one of the younger faces... is one of the few cabinet members to emerge with his reputation relatively intact. The Interior
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Privatisation revenues edge upward as end-of-year deadline looms
EconomyFeatures, involving splitting it into two entities, one commercial and one for infrastructure. DEPA’s privatisation... higher than the initial offering of 600 million. The current concession ends in 2026 and the new one... their final offers and requested a one-month extension to the current deadline of October 17
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Parties locked in tug of war over troubled universities
Societyeducation reform bill to parliament as one of his first priorities in government. Reform and counter..., Greece has the second highest teacher-student ratio among EU countries, with one professor to 44 students (the average is 1 to 15). Despite the difficulties, Greece has one of the highest proportions
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Newsletter 211 -21/06/2019
have little to gain and something to lose from a one-on-one discussion between its leader... and the solution pushed by Hellenic Financial Stability Fund of an APS like the one used in Italy recently... the one-off payments related to law 4575/2018 that were not completed in 2018 (in non-allocated
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Spree of media deals puts spotlight back on ownership issues
Societychannel, ONE TV, when he purchased MEGA. The MEGA deal follows Marinakis’s bid to purchase... been one of SYRIZA’s key pledges in its rise to power during the Greek crisis. Following a re-run... that fewer than one in five Greeks trusts the domestic news media to report political news fairly
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Nearly half of all households still rely on pensions for income, survey shows
Societystill reported having at least one unemployed family member, and one in ten reported having at least one family member who left Greece to find work. On the other hand, the study also recorded.... Furthermore, one in three households said that they got by without much difficulty compared to one
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A tax credit for Greece: The significance of an independent public revenue service
Agoraof structural reforms. One of the most significant breakthroughs, however, came in its tax administration... institutional capacity, was in a dire state, or stuck in the 1930s as one official told you. Based... is rudimentary and superficial at best. Your book underlines that Greece went almost from one end
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PM offers vision of stronger post-pandemic Greece, as ND reaps approval in polls
PoliticsGreek PoliticsMinistry spokesman Sotiris Tsiodras reported 31 new confirmed cases, bringing the total to 2,145, and one...”. Rounding off on one of his favourite themes, the prime minister said he hoped that the crisis would... by an Interview poll. One in four respondents in the Interview poll said they were in favour of the lockdown
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Many obstacles to clear in Greece's digital leap
EconomyFeaturesbut also compared to its immediate neighbours in the Balkans. Connectivity One of the factors holding... to the “Digital Reboot” report, one in three Greek SMEs uses no digital tools whatsoever, and one in four... put in place one of the most state-of-the-art government Cloud services systems starting in 2014
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Greece's EU journey: Solidarity hard to come by, but two-way approach also lacking
Agorathe first European elections in 1979, Schmidt called for “a Europe of solidarity, where one country... questioned to “describe in one word the EU today” 33.5% of the participants say, “lack of solidarity... in the Union. Some recent examples could justify this. One of the main concerns currently
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