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  1. Newsletter 60 - 29/01/2016

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    issue altogether. The Greek coast guard, navy and EU border force can patrol the sea, acting.... It is also worth noting how stretched the Greek coast guard is simply performing search and rescue...), according to figures provided by the Greek coast guard on December 17. This underlines what

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  2. Search for solutions, not scapegoats in EU's refugee crisis
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    Agora

    mines), but the Aegean Sea is a different issue altogether. The Greek coast guard, navy and EU border... on average for the whole of 2015. It is also worth noting how stretched the Greek coast guard... people to safety (a 721 percent increase), according to figures provided by the Greek coast guard

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  3. Greek pensions laid bare
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    Agora

    paid in March with a cost of 277 million euros, which corresponds to an average supplementary pension... and subsidized employment schemes. The Complementary Pension Allowance (EKAS), which serves more...) is close to 1.2 billion euros. Pure pension-related grants, excluding EKAS, from the budget were

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  4. Coalition ministers, MPs wrestle with implications of Eurogroup agreement
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    a discount until now. He was beaten to it, though, by Defence Minister Panos Kammenos, who leads... pledge regarding the EKAS benefit for low-income pensioners would be fulfilled. The Eurogroup indicated that Tsipras had overstepped the mark when he promised on Sunday that EKAS recipients would

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  5. Government tables 2016 budget, upgrades GDP forecasts but leaves fiscal estimates unchanged
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    (1.3 billion), development of Hellenikon (345 million), sale of real estate and shares (277 million... due to rise in health care contribution for pensioners and reduction in EKAS beneficiaries, public

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  6. Newsletter 68 - 01/04/2016

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    was beaten again. Despite the economy entering recession, Greece being monitored for its oversized public... implemented new interventions include the gradual phasing out of the EKAS solidarity payment

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  7. Reactions to reshuffle continue as government seeks fast track prosecution of former minister
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    . On Monday, Deputy Energy Minister Nikos Tsafos came under fire from opposition parties over... to show understanding for some of Turkey’s claims in the Aegean make Tsafos unsuitable to hold such a sensitive post. Tsafos, who had previously served as Mitsotakis’s advisor on energy, was forced

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  8. Newsletter 76 - 03/06/2016

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    , the proposal to limit seniority-based wages for police and the coast guard in 2017–18, where.... The most important interventions relate to, first, phasing out of the EKAS solidarity benefit

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  9. Newsletter 151 -16/02/2018

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    a Greek coast guard boat was rammed by a Turkish patrol vessel off the coast of the Imia islets, whose... to a total of 2.31 billion euros when excluding payments through the solidarity grant (EKAS). This works out

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  10. PM intervenes on bank charges as budget attracts extra support
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    of the police, coast guard, fired service and armed forces. This is another measure that is likely... retirees who would have been in line to receive the low-income stipend known as EKAS, which was strapped

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