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Newsletter 68 - 01/04/2016
encouraging signs during March, when the UNHCR put the number of arrivals at 26,222 by the 30th... was beaten again. Despite the economy entering recession, Greece being monitored for its oversized public... review has not been completed and the refugee crisis is in full flow? Being put in charge of these twin
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Eurogroup suggests there is scope for pension cuts to be called off
EconomyProgrammewith the argument that Athens has put forward, which is based on the better health of its public finances and the fact that the 2017 primary surplus target was beaten, a performance that the government... scrapping the measure unilaterally, it could put the debt relief measures agreed this June at risk
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Newsletter 367 - 27/01/2023
motion against the government in yet another bid by the opposition party to put Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on the spot over the issue and perhaps put a bigger dent in his hopes of being re... goal of 28.49 billion euros, beaten impressively by 3 billion euros. At the same time, income taxes
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Second round of local elections deliver worrying results for PM, glimmer of hope for opposition
PoliticsGreek Politics. However, he was soundly beaten by Dimitris Kouretas, a candidate put forward by centre-left PASOK...The results of the second round of local elections, held on Sunday, put a substantially different complexion on the political picture that had been formed following the first round, as New Democracy
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PM scrambles to rein in political fallout as deadly crash threatens to upend election contest
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the incident, claiming that, “unfortunately everything points towards the cause being tragic human error... a bigger challenge. For one, the scale of the human impact makes it harder for the general public... treated. It is also notable that while the media has homed in on the “human error” factor
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Budget deficit of 6.38 bln in Aug confirmed; target beaten due to one offs
EconomyMacroeconomyThe budget primary balance was confirmed at a deficit of 6.38 billion euros in the first eight months of 2021, compared with a deficit of 5.48 billion in the same period last year, the final Finance Ministry (MoF) budget execution data showed on Monday....
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Greek debt: A case of learned helplessness?
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Agorainvolving human beings. Its effects can be seen in people. When they feel they have no control over... to put together a loan package of 110 billion euros for a period of three years. For a sense of scale... for 450 billion euros to be invested over the next six years in human capital, employment
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Newsletter 373 - 10/03/2023
New Democracy party have put the government under intense pressure and created doubts not only... of the crash, the minister said that although human error was probably a factor, the appropriate... the fatal accident, Mitsotakis had suggested that the crash was mainly down to human error
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ND suffers ratings blow after train crash, hopes time is on its side
PoliticsGreek Politicsput the prospect of majority out of reach, even after a second vote. This would force Mitsotakis... the accident was a matter of human error or whether there are other issues that needed to be discussed... by the human error argument that Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis initially offered as an explanation
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Greece takes first round against Covid-19 but fight continues
Agorathe 1:1 ratio for the health service, and to continue the hiring programme put in motion... being put under lockdown. In the ensuing couple of weeks hospitals in Lombardy – a far better.... Greece’s lockdown was put in place gradually between March 9 (two days prior to the first recorded death
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