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BoG outlines factors hampering affordability in Greek housing market
EconomyMacroeconomyfor apartments older than five years growing by 8.1%, while those for newer units (up to five years... estate averaged €1.6 billion per year. However, 2025 saw a 25% decrease in these flows, partly..., with more than 207,000 properties registered for short‑term leasing in 2024. Fragmented ownership
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Impact of EP elections continues to reverberate across main parties
PoliticsGreek Politicsin the June 9 elections, where it garnered just 28.3 percent of the vote rather than the goal of 33 percent... 15 percent of the vote rather than the 20 percent he had said he aspired to. The tone of the posts...” from his predecessors and would prefer to rationalise spending rather than seek bank loans or dark
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Newsletter 509 - 19/06/2026
say they lived better in 2019 than today. Tsipras unveiled a package of five cost‑of‑living pledges... as a credible governing alternative rather than a protest movement. The centre‑left debate was further stirred... will take place in 2027, “closer to June than January”. He argued that ND’s internal polling makes
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PM steps up poll preparations, ELAS continues mobilisation and SYRIZA fights to survive
PoliticsGreek Politicsprojects as proof that “works matter more than words”, attack the opposition for populism and unrealistic... than confrontation, signalling a strategic repositioning aimed at broadening ELAS’s appeal. SYRIZA’s last roll The contrast with SYRIZA could not be sharper. The party that governed Greece less than
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Greece tops EU tables for lawyers but also pending administrative court cases
Societyof the scale in terms of the length of proceedings. Greece saw the number of incoming civil and commercial... more cases than were submitted. When the cases are broken down into different categories, litigious.... General government total expenditure on law courts was lower in Greece than among most western
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Newsletter 413 - 23/02/2024
relatively unscathed this week from what may have been the climax of the farmers' protests, which saw... that the rule of law in the country was in a stronger position than ever and that the only arbiter of its... for New Democracy. More than seven in ten say the government is doing a bad job on the cost of living
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Eurobank gears up for crucial but contentious capital increase
EconomyBanking), to sell its shares in the lender at not only less than it bought them last year but less than... and PASOK veteran Apostolos Kaklamanis also refused to support it during the March 30 vote. Papandreou
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PM and SYRIZA deaf to calls for compromise over president so far
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat he was expressing a personal opinion rather than a party position. Another PASOK lawmaker, Nikos... opens a discussion about a compromise deal he will probably have to give more ground than he wants... Bakoyannis, Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Nikitas Kaklamanis) to start publicly suggesting that the government look
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SYRIZA rebels poised to launch new group after split
PoliticsGreek Politicscontinues to be dogged by the same-sex marriage issue, rather than become embroiled in a battle... main opponent rather than their former party. This will be a tricky line to tread as their former... comment prompted New Democracy MP Nikitas Kaklamanis to argue that any minister not willing to vote
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Mitsotakis tours ministries as government looks for measures to improve public mood
PoliticsGreek Politicsto political stability due to its stance on the Tempe issue than the opposition, while 30 pct think... Nikitas Kaklamanis, an ND lawmaker, rejected calls from the opposition for the inquiry to be chaired by a cross-party presidency rather than just by MPs from the ruling party. PASOK representative Milena
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