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  1. Athens braces for Erdogan bargaining at NATO summit
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    was spying for Athens. On Saturday, Turkish authorities reportedly arrested a man named Mohamed Amar

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  2. Are hirings in the public sector out of control?
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    EconomyFeatures

    over a thousand in the past year. When the opposition quotes the number of 21,000 new permanent civil.... As in the past, the recent growth in the fixed-term contract sector appears on the face... that were intended to protect against the clientelistic practices of the past. A recent legislative

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  3. PASOK and Potami aim to firm up joint platform
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    After several weeks of deliberations, PASOK and To Potami are preparing to present their common policy platform in a show of partial unity that may act a as a precursor to the two parties joining forces at the next elections. The two parties, along with...

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  4. Mitsotakis renews appeal to PASOK and Potami for joint drive
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    Just a few days after naming a shadow cabinet, New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis has issued a rallying call to PASOK and To Potami, calling on the opposition parties to create a “front against populism.” Not for the first time since taking over a...

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  5. Tempe rail crash charges reignite debate about scrupulousness of investigation
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    representatives and employees of the contractor were charged with instigation of subsidy fraud... signalling-telecommand systems, but the contractor attempted to construct an entirely new signalling system

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  6. Greek building activity drops by another 8 pct in July

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    over the past 19 months. The aggregate figures for the 7-month period displayed permits retreated... by the Bank of Greece (BoG), apartment prices fell 7.3 percent in Q2 with the cumulative fall reaching... over the past 2.5 years with the cumulative drop at 13 percent over the past four years. In addition

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  7. Rate of drop in building activity increases to 19.9 pct in August
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    period (only May recorded a modest rise of 1.2 percent) and the seventeenth over the past 20 months... that of GDP over the past five years. Unlike other business sectors, which have shown signs of stabilisation... figures indicate that apartment prices, which are related to building activity, ell 7.3 percent in Q2

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  8. Last-minute labour amendment, university asylum law fuel political row as third bill passes
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    employees’ compensation rights. Also, firms are no longer responsible for ensuring that sub-contractors abide by labour regulations. The sub-contractor is responsible for ensuring workers’ rights...-contractors they use and employees having the right to take legal action against employers even

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  9. Newsletter 97 - 25/11/2016

    Newsletters

    . Apartment prices dropped at a slower pace of 1.5 percent in the third quarter (Q3) of 2016, after a fall of 2.6 percent in Q2, BoG data showed. Compared to the previous quarter, apartment prices declined for the second straight quarter by 0.6 percent in Q3. As a result, the apartment prices index

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  10. Greek-German relations: Perception versus reality

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    and understand the reform process underway as well as to identify areas of joint cooperation... controversies between Athens and Berlin in the course of the past four years is the sheer amount... and municipal know-how partnerships. The most prominent example for such successful joint initiatives

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