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Pandemic takes heavy toll on Greek workers, study finds
EconomyFeatureson salaries was dramatic. From March to June, between 100,000 and 180,000 people exited... of poverty. Losing a job comes at a particularly heavy price in Greece, since after two years... of three categories: Either they saw their work suspended for three months, were registered as unemployed
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Tsipras calls snap elections after heavy defeat that puts ND on course for clear majority
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Alexis Tsipras called snap elections on Sunday after SYRIZA suffered a heavy defeat..., the size of the defeat meant that this would not be possible politically. He will call snap elections... take a dramatic turnaround to now prevent the centre-right party ascending to power next month
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Newsletter 323 - 14/01/2022
of the minimum wage to 800 euros, cuts to VAT on basic goods and excise duty on fuel, an intervention... themselves “undecided”, however centre-left KINAL holds steady at 12.3 pct, retaining the advantage... by ELSTAT of consumer prices in Greece, which saw the index rise by 5.1 pct year-on-year in December
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Podcast - Long live the revolution: The legacy of Greece's 1821 war of independence
AgoraGreece is celebrating the 200th anniversary of its war of independence, which began in 1821 and allowed Greeks to free themselves of Ottoman rule and oppression, and form their own nation-state. To mark this occasion, we spoke to Sakis Gekas, the Hellenic Heritage Foundation (HHF) Chair of Modern
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Tsipras repeats call for elections with one eye on rising KINAL
PoliticsGreek PoliticsTV to call Mitsotakis a disastrous manager and said his party was issuing an urgent call... to implement the MoU. The SYRIZA leader reiterated his party’s proposals to cut fuel duty and VAT on basic goods, rebate fuel duty for farmers, and raise the minimum wage to 800 euros. Responding
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New Democracy sticks by snap polls call as gov't looks to probe, tender for relief
PoliticsGreek PoliticsMitsotakis on Tuesday to call on Tsipras to resign and snap elections to be held if necessary marked... two-party administration does not survive much longer. New Democracy, though, stands by its call... the conservatives had a duty to ask for elections because the government is doing such a bad job running
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Newsletter 143
that a quorum of more than 50 percent is needed in first-degree unions to call protest action... given by the government is that the Communist Party (KKE) asked for a vote by roll call... representing notaries in Athens and Piraeus decided to call off the transactions because of the high
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Newsletter 45 - 02/10/2015
burden in the last quarter of this year appears very heavy, with a large amount of taxes due by the end... performance, which saw its share of the vote increase slightly to 28.1 from 27.8 percent in January... and household equipment, where it fell by 24.1 percent. Furniture, electrical and household equipment saw
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Helped by trading gains, Eurobank posts 305 mln in Q1 profits
EconomyBankingEurobank posted an adjusted net income of 305 million euros in the first quarter of 2022 (Q1), compared to a profit of 72 million euros last year. Core pre-provision income (PPI) rose by 10.4 percent year-on-year (YoY) in Q1 to 240.4 million euros, with 62.1 million euros of loan loss provisions
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SYRIZA leader renews call for progressive unity as party’s drift to margins continues
PoliticsGreek PoliticsSYRIZA leader Sokratis Famellos has issued a renewed call for Greece’s progressive forces to set aside differences and work together as opinion polls continue to indicate that he outcome of the next... and its potential coalition partners. Famellos argued that progressive parties have a duty to present
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