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Outsider Kasselakis on track to lead SYRIZA after securing key backers
PoliticsGreek Politics. Libya debacle The government, meanwhile, is facing criticism over its handling of the deaths of five members of a Greek humanitarian rescue mission in Libya under unclear circumstances. The victims were members of the Greek armed forces who were part of an official mission to Libya to help
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Mitsotakis shrugs off scandals to hit back at foreign policy critics
PoliticsGreek Politicswith Libya, Mitsotakis reiterated his government’s position that the Turkey-Libya maritime agreement... the rival factions in Libya, allowing Libya to press territorial claims with backing from Ankara
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Greece working on plan for multilateral talks in East Med
PoliticsForeign Policyin the proposal are Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Egypt and Libya. The conference does not include Israel... to be Ankara’s refusal to participate in any forum that excludes Turkish Cypriots, while Libya... from Libya to represent both factions. Whether conditions on the ground make this feasible remains
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ECB tests find negligible capital shortfalls at Greek banks
Economyfor capital needs was based on the agreed restructuring plans (dynamic model) rather than the end-2013 figures (static model). The ECB noted in its country results that the aggregated capital shortfall.... Eurobank Under the static model, Eurobank showed a capital shortfall of 4.63 billion euros, which
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Newsletter 1 31/10/2014
on the dynamic (agreed restructuring plans after the end of 2013) rather than the static (end-2013 figures) model... involves the capital surplus that Greek banks showed under the dynamic model, which reached 10.7... lender that passed the stress tests under the static model even without taking into account
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Report reveals institutions’ views on labour market reforms
EconomyProgrammeand thus enhance employability. The institutions favour a labour model of flexibility with security (flexicurity) that is applied in Denmark. The key characteristics of the Danish model include... and social dialogue. This model allows for numerical (extended use of overtime, frequent hirings
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ELSTAT survey finds 2013 household budgets devastated, inequality persists
Societyin the rural than the urban areas. The average monthly expenditure in the urban areas fell 7.1 percent in 2013 and 28.6 percent since 2009. In contrast, the figures for the rural areas posted almost the half... is consistently above that in rural areas, yet the deviation significantly narrowed over the past
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Government on alert again as farming subsidy probe zeroes in on two ex-ministers
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe alleged involvement of two former rural development ministers, reported to be New Democracy’s.... “There was a central mechanism at OPEKEPE and at the (rural development) ministry directing them,” the opposition... that this penalty was for administrative failures is not convincing and called for the current Rural
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Resignations over EU subsidy scandal deliver new blow to PM, further tarnishing image
PoliticsGreek PoliticsHatsivassileiou, Deputy Rural Development Minister Dionyssis Stamenitis and Deputy Digital Governance Minister Christos Boukoros, as well as the Rural Development Ministry’s general secretary, Giorgos... that the former head of OPEKEPE, Grigoris Varras, twice informed Voridis when he was the rural
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Opposition takes aim at PM's inner circle over subsidy fraud as scandal halts ND rebound
PoliticsGreek Politicspayments, it has emerged that the instruction was overridden a few months later when a new rural... the high turnover at the top of the organisation and in the rural development ministry which oversees... appears in the EPPO file to have warned the then minister of rural development Makis Voridis
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