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Government commits to uniformed personnel pay rises amid clamour for higher incomes
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has been forced to commit to pay rises for all uniformed..., coast guard and fire service to be awarded more pay following the recent announcement of wage... that more pay increases would be announced in due course but “under the right conditions and at the right
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Google mobility report illustrates stark drop in activity due to Covid-19
SocietyGoogle has released a set of mobility reports which illustrate how the public’s movements around the world have altered due to the coronavirus outbreak. Greece went into staggered lockdown measures... measures such as an 8pm curfew were also introduced. Google’s report showed that in Greece as of March
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Coalition adopts court ruling that restores judges' pay, others poised to follow
PoliticsGreek Politicspay scale means that Supreme Court judges will be paid 4,134 euros per month gross. At the other end.... On top of that, the coalition has to pay them an extra 69.6 million euros per year. The amendment adopts...The coalition passed an amendment through Parliament this week which means it will have to pay
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Athens launches drive to pre-pay part of IMF loan, bringing budget benefits
EconomyProgramme, Greece is due to pay 2.1 billion euros per year up to 2021, dropping to 1.9 in 2022 and 1.4 in 2023...Greece has launched the formal process to pre-pay part of the loans it has received from the International Monetary Fund after Finance Minister Christos Staikouras officially requested clearance from
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After pay rises in armed forces, PM faces calls for broader wage increases
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat members of Greece’s armed forces would see their pay increase by between 13 pct to 20 pct over... sector pay scale mean that civil servants’ wages have increased by 2.1 billion euros, which is the equivalent of more than 1 annual bonus salary per employee. He added that the government aims
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Part-time work, low pay characterise crisis-era job market
Societyin the last three years reported inadequate insurance coverage. Work hours The average hours worked per... percent of men). Just 57 percent reported receiving their pay on time and without problems, 33
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Greece voices support for Ukraine as govt counts cost of war's impact on economy, public finances
PoliticsGreek Politicsinflation, even as fuel approaches 2 euros per litre and heating oil is up 38 pct year-on-year... crisis. “Tonight we stand with the people of Ukraine. What is happening is not just a violation
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Stournaras in firing line for arguing Greeks can pay more taxes
PoliticsGreek Politicsand indirect taxes should increase, in fact what he meant was that Greeks as a whole do not pay enough tax. He... had already been done. His original comment was interpreted as a suggestion that Greeks should pay... Antonis Samaras described 2013 as the worst year on record in terms of the taxes Greeks had to pay
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‘We’re dying to pay our taxes’
Agora, in Thessaloniki, Greece’s second city, to pay the first of six instalments of Greece’s new property tax... to pay our taxes even if it’s the last thing we do,” he said. This month marks the anniversary... of a pensioner while queuing to pay another austerity-related tax could be seen as a metaphor for how
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Mitsotakis unveils major defence package against backdrop of forces pay rise dispute
PoliticsGreek Politics. The announcement comes after a week of upheaval in New Democracy, as ministers called for pay rises... following the PM’s announcement of pay rises for armed forces personnel. Several prominent politicians
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