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Countdown to Macedonia name deal vote has PM weighing up support
PoliticsForeign Policyto the next government, possibly led by New Democracy and Kyriakos Mitsotakis. Tsipras has... 151 MPs. He has also clarified that he will not hold a referendum on the subject and will not leave.... This seems to be based on two crucial factors: SYRIZA has managed to stem the loss of support in opinion
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Police actions draw attention to ND's law and order agenda
PoliticsGreek Politicsallegations of unprovoked violence. The issue has come to the fore after disturbances on Friday night... Grigoropoulos being murdered by a policeman. Video footage and photographs appear to show excessive force being.... It said it has asked the Citizens’ Ombudsman to investigate these cases. While in opposition, New
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Newsletter 104 - 27/01/2017
Monetary Fund has demanded. This was not confirmed in the Eurogroup statement or in the press conference... on February 6. Details leaked to the Greek media suggest that the Washington-based organisation has... long the 3.5 percent primary surplus will have to be maintained. And there has not been any agreement
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Covid-19 puts pressure on health system, forces govt into more restrictions
PoliticsGreek Politics, the government has introduced new restrictions for the greater Athens area and officials are not ruling... by the beginning of September, and has now shot up to 67. It is worth noting that Attica has a total of 72 ICU... and its environs, which accounted for 197 of the 310 Covid-19 cases registered on Tuesday. Until
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IMF outlines areas in which Greece needs further reforms, where it should apply caution
EconomyProgrammeto higher targeted social spending and public investment, which has underperformed in the last years. Added... to Greece, Peter Dolman. “At the same time, the government should also be focussing on non-wage costs so
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Labour cost fall has not produced jobs, bemoans GSEE in study
SocietyThe significant fall in labour costs since the onset of the crisis has not led to a corresponding..., as many has expected, but unemployment, according to a draft copy of the 2015 annual report..., the report said. The INE maintains that the gains made by companies from the fall in labour costs has
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The pension and revenue interventions Greece has to make to meet its 2016 fiscal target
EconomyProgrammeGreece has to achieve a primary surplus target of 0.5 percent of GDP in 2016, according to the agreement reached with institutions last summer. Achieving this target means that the government has... the interventions it has already announced. Labour Minister Giorgos Katrougalos said in an interview
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Brexit has opened a can of (constitutional) worms
Agora. The challenge is Herculean not just because of the enormity of the task. Brexit has also opened the debate... with Westminster on a breakaway vote. However, the UK government has signaled that it will not consent... Ireland has significantly increased after the failure to form a government there. Nevertheless, when
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Protests and policing shake up political agenda as early election scenarios resurface
PoliticsGreek Politicsin Parliament on Friday has seen new battle lines drawn around the “law and order” agenda, which... the blame for instigating civil unrest on SYRIZA. SYRIZA, meanwhile, has sensed an opportunity... a confrontational approach to policing. The party has not overtly endorsed the call for neighbourhood
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Sports-related violence on the agenda again as PM struggles to find response
PoliticsGreek Politicsis examining what measures it can take to rein in sports-related violence after a policeman was seriously... has reportedly admitted firing the flare. In his weekly Facebook post, Prime Minister Kyriakos... administration’s law and order agenda. Mitsotakis has made law and order a key part of his political credo
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