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Parties gear up for confrontation over labour bill

The government’s proposed labour reforms will be at the heart of a political battle in Greece this week as the draft law moves to Parliament’s full assembly ahead of a vote that is likely to take place on Wednesday.

Left pulls together against ND's labour reform bill

Opposition to New Democracy’s labour reform continues to harden as the legislation makes its way through the parliamentary process. A 24-hour general strike against the bill on Thursday was backed Greece’s largest unions and all the parties of the left.

Creditors give thumbs up for 10th post-MoU review, underline pandemic legacy

The Greek authorities overcame one more hurdle in the post-programme surveillance process as the European Commission released on Wednesday the tenth report since the final programme was completed in the summer of 2018.

SYRIZA lays out alternative vision to counter government's RRF plan

Government ministers have been offering more details on the first stages in the implementation of the national recovery plan, in anticipation of the first disbursements of RRF funds from Brussels this summer.

After submitting RRF plan, govt turns to challenges of delivery

After officially submitting its national RRF plan to the European Commission this week, attention in Greece is turning to the challenges of implementation.

PM unveils 'Greece 2.0' plan to use EU recovery funds, transform economy

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Wednesday unveiled the government’s plan for how it will use of the European Union’s Recovery and Resilience Facility funds to remake the country’s economy after the damage wrought by the coronavirus pandemic.

PM trails national recovery plan ahead, talks up growth prospects

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis attempted a change of gear at the start of this week, by turning the cabinet’s attention from the troubling epidemiological situation and the strain on public finances, to the post-Covid recovery.

PM aims to press ahead with reform agenda in face of scandals and pandemic

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will be looking to rally his cabinet around the government’s reform agenda, as New Democracy battles an unfolding sex scandal, on top of worsening economic data and growing lockdown fatigue.

New Democracy's 2021 agenda focusses on reforms, social support

With the national Covid-19 vaccination plan under way and pressure on hospitals slowly easing, the final cabinet meeting of 2020 turned its focus on the government’s agenda for the coming year.

Many obstacles to clear in Greece's digital leap

By: Georgia Nakou

Announcing the establishment by Microsoft of a regional cloud computing hub in Greece, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said that his government was focussing on “the digital transformation of government and the economy” as a critical step in achieving “Greece’s leap into the future, placing Greeks among the winners of the 4th industrial revolution”.