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New Democracy tries to win over voters with crackdown on bank charges, migration
PoliticsGreek Politicsapproach on migration in response to increased arrivals from Libya also comes at a time when New... politician met with EU interior ministers on Tuesday in Copenhagen, where he pressed for faster
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Newsletter 205 -10/05/2019
to pay their dues in up to 120 instalments after being granted a reduction of the original amount... of their monthly retirement pay. For those earning 501 to 600 euros, the amount paid out will be 70 percent.... Of this available funds, 3.6 billion euros will be used in the coming weeks to pay off part of Greece’s loan from
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Newsletter 389 - 14/07/2023
an omnibus bill that ranges from the new pay scale in the public sector to the extension of some... the end of its new term, but it was quick to shut these claims down with a new pay scale that has a fiscal cost of some 500 million euros annually and intends to reward low pay civil servants and those
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Crisis sees Greeks change eating habits, cut back on eating out
Society. In particular, 39.7 percent of respondents said they do not eat outside the home, compared to 25.3% in 2011. In addition, the percentage of consumers who eat out once a week fell from 37.6 percent in 2011 to 31 percent in 2016. Similarly, the share of the population that does not eat fast food
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Newsletter 310 - 01/10/2021
PoliticsFull speed ahead for warship, defence deal with FranceGreece believes that it took a significant step this week to upgrading its defence capabilities but also bolstering the country’s geopolitical standing after agreeing to purchase at least thr...
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Newsletter 16 - 20/02/2015
framework to allow those owing more than 15,000 to pay the debt in 100 instalments (as opposed... in his cabinet, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras chose former New Democracy Interior Minister Prokopis... government, with Pavlopoulos as Interior Minister, issued a presidential decree that allowed fixed-term
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Bond issue decision expected as clock ticks down
PoliticsGreek Politicscontracts. Several provisions in the bill relate to working conditions and pay. It proposes... in September 2015, when then-Interior Minister Panayiotis Kouroublis asked local authorities to list... Accounting Office because of fiscal concerns. It has been revived under the current Interior Minister Panos
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Mitsotakis starts second term, prepares to name cabinet and launch reforms amid far-right rise
PoliticsGreek Politicsincreases from the start of 2024 and a pay rise for many civil servants. The legislation will also bring... with responsibility of overseeing the government’s role in Parliament. Former Interior Minister Makis Voridis... to Education, which Niki Kerameus will leave to take over as the new interior minister. Former Citizens
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Tsipras keeps IMF waiting, turns focus to MPs and opposition
PoliticsGreek Politicsshortly before the news broke that the government had asked not to pay the International Monetary... at the end of June. Like the prime minister’s speech on Friday afternoon, the decision not to pay the IMF... and minister have been advocating for the last few weeks that the government should not pay the IMF
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Athens expands survey area off Crete, signs MoU with Egypt
PoliticsForeign PolicyExclusive Economic Zone. In 2019, before signing its memorandum with Turkey, Libya reacted against...). This was calculated by moving its median line northwards. After the signing of the Turkey-Libya memorandum in 2019, new data was generated and Libya could argue that the entire area south of Crete
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