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  1. Opposition tries to pin government down over last year's Plan X
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    with the so-called Plan X that former Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis worked on during the first half... a range of government officials, Plan X was never intended as a blueprint for Greece to follow... an institutional role. The government’s assertion that Plan X does not hide any dark plans

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  2. Are Chinese investments starting to hit a wall in Germany?
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    Agora

    .[x] The rapid growth of Chinese outbound investment in recent years has raised awareness in host... Volkswirtschaft um? Berlin, January 2019. [x] See: Bershidsky, Leonid: “Germany Enters the Global...: ‘Alle Wege führen nach China’, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, 22nd February 2018. [ii] See: ‘Chinesen greifen

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  3. Latest criticism regarding human rights, civil society rebuffed by govt
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    The Greek government’s attitude towards civil society and human rights has come under fire from... media reports and complaints by press freedom and human rights advocates that the Greek authorities.... On Wednesday, the UN’s Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders presented her preliminary findings from

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  4. Human Rights Commissioner calls for improvements to battered healthcare system
    By Natasha Pantazopoulou/Fosphotos

    Society

    A report by the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe has shown the severe impact of the country’s crisis on Greece’s healthcare sector as well as the health of Greeks. The report... to accessing healthcare in practice and greater investment in ensuring that the human rights of disabled

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  5. Greek pensions laid bare
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    Agora

    ), a figure which is almost half the 1.1 billion that was spent in 2013. The Manpower Employment Agency... reduced from the 1.4 billion of 2013 still required 1.1 billion last year. The state’s contribution... pensions amounts to 884 euros. Note, though, that for around 45 percent of pensioners their monthly

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  6. If you think it's bleak for Greece now, wait until tomorrow
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    Agora

    human capital and factors that enhance capital and labour. The basic logic is that economies... productivity growth since 1970 has been averaging 0.7 percent, by far the lowest in the euro area, which

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  7. It's time to say farewell to TINA politics in Germany

    Agora

    an opinion on Hong Kong, address human rights violations against Uygur Muslims in western China... the devastating flash floods in the two regions of North-Rhein Westphalia and Rhineland Palatinate

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  8. Greek train firm TRAINOSE attracts just one bid, no interest in rolling stock
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    Economy

    by 2018, of which 2.5 billion are expected to be generated in 2016, 2.2 billion in 2017 and 1.1 billion... in 2005 as a subsidiary of the Greek railway company (OSE), which was founded in 1970 and is wholly owned

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  9. Newsletter 187 -14/12/2018

    Newsletters

    percent compared to October’s figure. The harmonised index of consumer prices (HICP) rose by 1.1 percent... month to come to 31.98 billion. Industrial production falls by 1.1 pct in October Decline in October...-on-year (YoY) by 1.1 percent in October from a downward revised 1.8 percent increase in September, ELSTAT

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  10. Higher education in Greece needs radical overhaul to create labour-relevant workforce, study says
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    Society

    of higher education came to 1.1 million compared to 1 million for Greek males. Despite this, women... sector was 884 euros in 2016 compared to 1,054 euros in 2008. In the public sector, despite falling

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