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Health service in spotlight as govt scrabbles for more measures to contain Covid
PoliticsGreek Politicsthan in the past. Koufodinas stand-off The opposition party, though, remains susceptible to the kind of ideological hang-ups that turned off many voters during the last few years. The latest case came... in reference to the continuing stand-off between the government and Dimitris Koufodinas
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Govt prepares new round of economic relief as Covid remains a threat
PoliticsGreek Politicspersistence has thrown off New Democracy’s initial planning for 2021. The government had hoped that the retail sector would open from today, but that decision was put off on Friday due to the high number... quarter could reach 65 pct of 2019, the same sources added. The sector has essentially written off
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Newsletter 320 - 10/12/2021
looks set to win the run-off vote for the leadership of Movement for Change (KINAL) this Sunday... by Interview for politic.gr appears to confirm Androulakis as the favourite to win Sunday’s run-off by 16..., in November 2017, which led to Fofi Gennimata and Androulakis going into a run-off vote. Given
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Piraeus seals 400 mln NPE sale as banks gear up for more balance sheet transactions in 2022
EconomyBankingvalue. NBG signed off last year with the completion of Frontier of a 6 billion euros book value, which... shift more than 5 billion euros off their balance sheets in the coming months, with the Hercules II... of the securitisations with the aim of helping banks shedding up to 30 billion euros off their books.
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Newsletter 328 - 18/02/2022
was looking at the possibility of making a one-off benefit payment to vulnerable groups before Easter... recently grabbed the headlines after the murder of a football fan.EconomySpiralling prices set off wide... overperformance that will allow them to allocate roughly 300 million euros to the one-off benefit, like
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Where is Odysseus? Part 1 - Demographics
Agora. It is worth asking what happened to Odysseus and his people who set off on their journey in relatively... demographic projections, the Greek population is now expected to be slightly larger, and level off... data are interesting. In the 2011 vintage, the population did not start to ease off until the 2020s
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Newsletter 343 - 24/06/2022
waits until the end of his four-year term to hold elections, he will not be able to hold off the wear... expectations, and not fully signing off the latest round of debt relief measures adopted... to kick off from next year onwards. The IMF also welcomes improvements that took place during
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Government attempts to offer reassurance against winter energy shortages
PoliticsGreek Politicsthemselves on heightened alert for the prospect of Russia completely shutting off gas supplies. Skrekas... regulator RAE outlines the contingencies in a scenario where supplies of Russian gas are cut off entirely... of heating and cooling within a regulated temperature range, turning off heating and cooling outside office
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Opposition parties step up pressure after back-and-forth over election date
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis may have taken the possibility of snap elections off the table... scepticism was misguided and that even SYRIZA’s own secret polling was substantially off the mark... compared to 2019, this will indicate that the Greek electorate has gone off Mitsotakis
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Relief measures being lined up, but PM's eye also on reforms rollout
PoliticsGreek Politicsand 300 million euros will probably be needed to cover the cost of the one-off payment aimed at helping those worse off with the burden of rising prices. If this initiative goes ahead, it is widely expected... or for their one-off pension bonus to rise on retirement. Combined with the scrapping of the solidarity levy
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