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Newsletter 246 -03/04/2020
lack of a surge in cases in the country. The Health Ministry has given assurances that the system... as a whole has been manageable due to the small number of coronavirus cases requiring hospitalisation compared to other European countries. The public health authority EODY has outlined a targeted testing
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Spain’s economic recovery languishes amid graft scandals
Agorathat is reflected in an unemployment rate that still remains over 25 percent -the second highest..., has rebuffed opposition criticism over his economic policies by pointing to a trade balance surplus, January’s three-year bond yield falling to a record-low and a declining risk premium that has
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Newsletter 56 - 18/12/2015
and embarrassment of a drawn-out leadership campaign that has failed to capture voters’ attention even though... to a software failure. The conservative party has since switched the IT firm it is using, from... of role New Democracy will play in Greek politics. At the moment the party has regressed into its
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Newsletter 482 - 31/10/2025
-left that has so far failed to turn the crisis into electoral advantage. Police detained 37 people... their investigation before the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) became involved and has framed.... The political cost is tangible in the countryside. Opposition figures say the clean-up has exacerbated
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Unemployment at new high of 28 pct in Nov, jobless up by 169 pct in four years
EconomyMacroeconomypercent compared to 24.9 percent for males. For all age groups the unemployment rate has roughly tripled...The seasonally adjusted jobless rate continued heading north, reaching 28 percent in November from... (ELSTAT). The November rate now holds the new high. The rate of decrease in the number of employed
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Newsletter 272 -06/11/2020
committee, Professor Sotiris Tsiodras said that authorities had been shocked by the high rate of transmission over the past few days. Mitsotakis warned that if the rate of spread did not abate, over 1,000... has tried to paint a picture of competent management of the pandemic, the last few weeks have made
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Loverdos cosies up to DIMAR but future of Greek centre left remains in doubt
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPASOK health minister – attempted to make the first decisive move by holding talks with DIMAR leader... for a New Greece, Loverdos’s movement seems little more than a personal vehicle. It has attracted just one... the coalition government in June over the closure of state broadcaster ERT, DIMAR has adopted what
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Samaras and Venizelos rule out elections but can't be sure they won't happen
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreece’s coalitions has decided against calling snap elections in the wake of Golden Dawn arrests... Evangelos Venizelos, who met in New York on Sunday, both declared their opposition to the idea of holding... is also trying to stay ahead of the game in that respect. He has presented a plan for changing Greece
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Is Democratic Left set to make a shock return to Greece's coalition?
PoliticsGreek Politicslawmakers within the coalition from holding the government to ransom, or “behaving like Tarzan” as she put it. How realistic, though, is it to expect DIMAR, which has 14 MPs, to rejoin the government... view shared by everyone in his party? Since leaving the coalition, DIMAR has been through a period
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Final presidential vote likely to segue into snap elections for Greece
PoliticsGreek Politicsmight secure the 180 needed in the final round but there has been little progress since... in Democratic Left (DIMAR) and Independent Greeks seems to be just about holding. Ex-Independent Greek MP... already backed Dimas. DIMAR leader Fotis Kouvelis has held his party together so far but his intention
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