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Refugee influx pushes Tsipras towards crisis nexus
Agorais appointed to the Asylum Service and First Reception service; put in place an effective return system... set up a service to manage these resources. If Tsipras cannot put his own house in order
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Little trouble for Tsipras in multi-bill vote but bigger problems may lurk over revenues chief
PoliticsGreek Politicson an IT firm to be reviewed. Savvaidou replaced Haris Theoharis at the revenue service last summer... the service's independence. The creation of the position had been one of the troika's key demands as part... to the legal charges against her, Tsipras's decision to intervene in the service before any court has
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Government meets resistance on TV permits and revenues chief
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAlexis Tsipras's bid to replace the head of Greece's revenue service and launch a new tender... at a time that her service is due to take over responsibility for chasing major tax evasion cases from... service should resign for "ethical reasons." Broadcasting permits Tsipras is also running
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Greek teachers low paid, but work shorter hours in smaller classes
Societytheir careers, rising to €25,752 at the end of service. In Greece, the report underlined, less than 5... of service. Even after 15 years’ experience, a Greek lower secondary school teacher with minimum... sessions, and after 12 years to 18 sessions. After 20 years of service, teachers are required
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After criticism over public sector jobs, gov't names new revenues chief
PoliticsGreek Politicsand Independent Greeks are treating the civil service. Earlier this week, an EU official suggested that SYRIZA... to counter the impression that it is stuffing the civil service with its cronies. The European Commission welcomed the appointment and stressed that the creation of an independent revenue service is one
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Greek relief at EU-Turkey refugee deal but heavy lifting lies ahead
PoliticsForeign PolicyMaarten Verwey, the director general of the Structural Reforms Supports Service (the successor... from the Structural Reform Support Service and 12 from Europol. Tsipras did not give any details... service, which has around 250 employees, is hugely overburdened and Greece’s judicial system
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Relief for coalition as wildfire threat subsides
PoliticsGreek PoliticsNikos Toskas, who is in charge of the fire service and police. Questions are being asked about... of is seen to have done the most it could to assist the fire service and that it avoids getting blamed... and getting a first-hand account of the firefighting effort from local officials and fire service chiefs
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Buckling under pressure of Mati death toll, Tsipras searches for corrective actions
PoliticsGreek Politicsbeen made public. The fire service attempted to address the last issue by announcing on Sunday that 25... that the fire service and the police dealt with the situation have not convinced critics that authorities... independent. There have also been suggestions that there will be changes in the fire service. Tsipras
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Unemployment rate declines to 18.3 pct in Q3
EconomyMacroeconomyservice activities (+12,400). The three sectors displaying the biggest year-on-year decline in hires were administrative and support service activities (-6,000), construction (-5,200), and activities... (18.2 percent of total), agricultural (12.1 percent), accommodation and food service activities
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Unemployment rate up to 19.2 pct in Q1, long-term jobless still falling
EconomyMacroeconomycompared to the same period in 2018 was noted in the sector of accommodation and food service activities...), accommodation and food service activities (9.5 percent), public administration and defense/compulsory social security (9.1 percent) and accommodation and food service activities (8.4 percent).
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