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Greek banks push for return to normality
EconomyBankingfor a second consecutive month. Since the start of the year, Eurosystem funding has fallen... programme is already winding down with net purchases currently at 30 billion euros up to September... Eurobank. The so-called Pixel portfolio has attracted strong interest from overseas investors
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Greece aiming to complete post-bailout monitoring this summer
PoliticsGreek Politicselectricity lines below ground has begun, although work still remains to be done before... as part of its latest post-programme review and has its sights set on completing the monitoring.... On the fiscal front, Greece has to reduce its primary deficit from 7 pct to 1 pct of GDP. If it manages
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Government talks up privatisation benefits, but opposition questions success story
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe privatisation of Athens International Airport last week has been celebrated by the government.... The government has promoted it as one of the biggest Greek success stories for years and a vote of confidence.... The government was also questioned over the timing of its winding up of the Covid-era rescue scheme for Aegean
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Athens ticking off prior actions one by one as EU keeps close watch
PoliticsGreek Politicsto visit Greece and check on the government’s progress in completing the tasks it has been set... evicted from their homes, which is a feature that has been largely absent from the Greek crisis... percent. Finally, the government is due to tightening the definition of what constitutes a farmer
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Government pins hopes on payments, OPEKEPE shake-up to stem farmers’ protests
PoliticsGreek Politicsfarmers. PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis has pledged 50 million euros in support by the end of the year... the affair in the headlines well into the new year. Polls Two new opinion polls show the dial has hardly... of a general effort to improve public services. They face an uphill struggle, however, as farmer’s demands
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ND anxious about impact Afghanistan tumble will have on migration
PoliticsGreek Politicsto temper its stance on a number of policy issues since losing the 2019 elections, it has retained... approach to the migration issue has primarily been dictated by the fear of alienating its voter base. ND’s focus has been on reducing the number of asylum seekers reaching Greek shores and trying
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Policing in spotlight after shocking domestic violence incident
PoliticsGreek Politicsstation where she had gone to seek protection has put the New Democracy government on the spot over... protocols had been followed. An internal investigation has been launched by the police. Opposition parties... campaigns; however, the party has scored low in more recent polls on the subject thanks to several high
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Resounding win for Mitsotakis, who has majority comfortably in reach
PoliticsGreek Politicstantalisingly close to an outright majority in Greek Parliament, which has 300 seats but Prime... of the threshold, gaining 2.5 pct, with the other radical left party, Sailing for Freedom, winning 2.8 pct... majority in second elections, where the winning party will be awarded a bonus of up to 50 seats
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During crisis, proportion of Greeks in extreme poverty has risen almost seven times to 15 pct
Societyin Greece has found. The study, commissioned by Athens-based think tank Dianeosis and conducted... in their own home without a mortgage (10.8 percent). The group most prone to finding extreme poverty
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A tax credit for Greece: The significance of an independent public revenue service
Agora, the Independent Authority for Public Revenue (IAPR), in 2017. The long and winding road to achieving this goal has been traced in a new book authored by Argyris Passas, an associate professor at Panteion... he was the leader of the opposition) and his government has recently renewed the mandate
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