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  1. Refugee housing deadline puts spotlight back on migration policy
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    ’s migration policy. Earlier this month, Migration Policy Minister Notis Mitarakis was criticised... costed at 4.5 million euros was awarded to a private contractor without being put to tender

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  2. Professional liars in pandemic times

    Agora

    through social media, but also through closed groups on some platforms such as Viber and the like... messages, most likely on platforms such as Messenger, Viber, WhatsApp and the like

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  3. Authorities struggle with islanders' resistance to closed centres for migrants
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    . Community leaders condemned the confrontational approach adopted by Migration Policy Minister Notis... the contractors for bulldozing forested public land to build roads to one of the sites. Violence erupted

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  4. Opposition parties continue to pursue wiretap claims, as surveillance bill passes first hurdle

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    the intelligence service EYP to the operation of the Predator spyware via a government contractor... from invoices and bank statements pertaining to the activities of EYP contractor Krikel, which..., transactions totalling 5.3 million euros linked to the government contractor appear to have escaped

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  5. Greek pensions laid bare
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    pensions amounts to 884 euros. Note, though, that for around 45 percent of pensioners their monthly... and they receive on average monthly pensions of 771 euros. This is below the overall average of 884 euros since

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  6. Weak banks drag Greek stocks down by 6.5 pct during week

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    percent in each of the preceding two weeks. The most resilient performance was exhibited by Aegan

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  7. IMF comments, blog leave no doubt credible debt relief has to be agreed soon
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    Almost two weeks after the publication of its Article IV consultation report on Greece, including its updated debt sustainability analysis, the IMF published on Thursday evening a blog with the Fund’s perspective on dealing with sovereign debt. The article is written by Sean Hagan, general Counsel

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  8. Tempe rail crash charges reignite debate about scrupulousness of investigation
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    representatives and employees of the contractor were charged with instigation of subsidy fraud... signalling-telecommand systems, but the contractor attempted to construct an entirely new signalling system

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  9. Last-minute labour amendment, university asylum law fuel political row as third bill passes
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    employees’ compensation rights. Also, firms are no longer responsible for ensuring that sub-contractors abide by labour regulations. The sub-contractor is responsible for ensuring workers’ rights...-contractors they use and employees having the right to take legal action against employers even

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  10. Of symmetry and adjustments in the eurozone

    Agora

    and at the Jakarta School of Public Policy, Indonesia, where he is also head of the Economics Concentration. He

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