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  1. Putting right everything that went wrong in Mati

    Agora

    that is worthy of the lives of those 80+ people who perished in Mati. Sadly, there seems to be very... whose only purpose is to ensure that nobody has responsibility for anything. What happened in Mati... summer wind in eight years blew from the west, pushing the fire through homes in Mati at a blistering

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  2. Budget primary shows deficit of 7.01 bln in September
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    The budget primary balance recorded a deficit of 7.01 billion euros in the first nine months of 2020, compared to a surplus of 4.47 billion noted in September 2019, the final Finance Ministry (MoF... during the first nine months of the year. Personal income tax (PIT) was below target by 763 million

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  3. Mati fire investigation puts spotlight on authorities and government
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    wildfire in Mati, which caused 100 deaths, after prosecutors’ investigated how authorities dealt... from the danger area and containing the fire. In a radio interview on Thursday, New Democracy’s... they will launch a parliamentary inquiry into the Mati fire. He suggested that the prosecutors’ report has

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  4. ND in danger of being blown off course by farming subsidy scandal

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    to plead the case of a local olive farmer who was in danger of missing out on a legitimate subsidy

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  5. Take your seats

    Agora

    , Greek authorities proved inept in tackling the deadly wildfire in Mati, on the outskirts of Athens... by Tsipras. The big bang he wanted to finish the bailout on became more of a whimper. Now, with the next... was strongly criticised for the Mati disaster. To be clear, Tsipras’s goal at the next elections

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  6. Podcast - Long live the revolution: The legacy of Greece's 1821 war of independence

    Agora

    Greece 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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  7. Buckling under pressure of Mati death toll, Tsipras searches for corrective actions

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    of the coalition’s crisis management strategy. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras visited Mati, the area.... The head of junior coalition partner Independent Greeks (ANEL) Panos Kammenos visited Mati with TV cameras... the high death toll to the gale-force winds and large amount of illegal construction in Mati

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  8. General govt primary cash deficit at 7.01 bln in Sept, arrears up by 113 mln
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    Greece’s general government (gg) primary cash deficit came to 7.01 billion euros in the first nine months of the year compared to a surplus of 4.53 billion in the same period last year, according... at a deficit of 7.01 billion euros. The budget primary balance for the same time last year came

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  9. Athens waits for EU recovery fund outcome as new Mati fire claims emerge

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    essentially accepting a new bailout for Greece, with all the toxicity that concept entails. Mati... was focussed on new and grave claims regarding the the Mati wildfire in the summer of 2018, which claimed... and the type of vegetation for the blaze sweeping through the coastal town of Mati so quickly. Former

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  10. Greek coalition left with bailout exit conditions it wanted to avoid
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    , appear short of what the government wanted to boost its chances of winning over enough MPs to emerge... at the back burner – all factors that the coalition wanted to avoid for domestic reasons. Eurogroup

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