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  1. PM riles SYRIZA with remarks on EU anniversary

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    Greece marked on Thursday the 40th anniversary of its accession to what was then the European Economic Community, but remarks made in the presence of EU dignitaries by Prime Minister Kyriakos... for Greece, not a party-political gathering. SYRIZA referred to Mitsotakis’s remarks as “incendiary

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  2. The first cut is the deepest? Greek pension reforms in context

    EconomyFeatures

    government figures have been drip-feeding hints of a post-MoU relaxation to a desperate domestic... swing that was clearly influenced by the younger party’s promises to preserve pensions against

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  3. PM burnishes conservative credentials with focus on day-to-day issues, law and order
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    With three weeks of campaigning left until the EP elections, PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis is focussing his message on the issues he believes will swing the vote. After a week in which New Democracy’s... also pledges to fight what he calls the “deep state”, which he hints is standing in the way

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  4. PM hits back at labour reform critics, defends 13-hour working days
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    - an admission that hints at disillusionment even within the ruling party’s base. The poll paints.... These figures suggest that swing voters are motivated less by ideology and more by pragmatic concerns

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  5. Newsletter 62 - 12/02/2016

    Newsletters

    Pensions remain central issue Positive hints from Eurogroup as IMF calls for more measures The Eurogroup on Thursday evening sent a relatively positive signal, noting that progress has been achieved... department, in a blog post published on Thursday evening. Thomsen reiterated the remarks by IMF chief

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  6. Covid measures extended despite govt optimism, as inflation causes political tension
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    on keeping in place all the measures introduced over the Christmas holidays, despite earlier hints... was forced to retract remarks had made earlier in the week suggesting that the government

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  7. The final stretch: Can fearmongering swing the German electorate?
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    Agora

    One week to go. On Sunday, September 26, German citizens will cast their ballots in a watershed general election. After 16 years as chancellor, Angela Merkel is leaving office. For the 2.8 million first-time young voters in these elections, they will no...

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  8. Greek pensions laid bare
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    Agora

    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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  9. Amid signs of split over Tempe probe, government plays down EU prosecutor’s remarks
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    The government attempted to put a positive spin on the pointed criticism delivered by European Chief Prosecutor Laura Kovesi during her visit to Athens but Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s administration continues to be dogged by some of the issues ...

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  10. Privatisation chief sees gradual progress but revenues remain unclear

    Economy

    that the preferred bidder as well as the two substitute candidates, namely CASA (Corporation America)–METKA

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