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The much anticipated “Power Pass” platform for citizens who are entitled to receive the electricity refunds of up to 600 euros, will open on Friday, June 17, 2022, the Minister for Digital Governance Kyriakos Pierrakakis said on Tuesday. Citizens can apply on the platform to receive rebates for the extra …

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Constantly soaring electricity and fuel prices, a double-digit inflation in the last few months (expected to be at 12% in May) Greek households and businesses are desperate. But what does the conservative government to get the situation under control, except distributing bags with peanuts in form of subsidies? Not much… …

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Finance Minister Christos Staikouras ruled out cuts on the special consumption tax on fuel, as prices reached new records this week, Greeks struggle to fill their vehicle tank and the domino effect of the hikes affects every sector of the economy. “Greece will have a primary deficit this year, as …

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Main opposition party SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance blames the government for soaring prices and the high toll of Covid-related deaths outside the ICUs. In a spot, the main opposition party urges for a series of measures for the benefit of the society. In a spot SYRIZA demands decrease of the special tax …

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Greece’s epidemiologists are called this week to satisfy if not all at least some of the requests of the government for liftiing several restrictions aiming to contain the spread of the coronavirus in the country. At least for vaccinated citizens the government has reportedly requested the epidemiologists’ committee to give …

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The censure motion against the Greek government was rejected with 156 votes in a Parliament of 300 late on Sunday night. In favor of the motion tabled by main opposition party, left-wing SYRIZA, voted all opposition parties, a total of 142 MPs from SYRIZA, KINAL, KKE, Greek Solution and MeRA25. …

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Greek Prime Minister and obviously wanna-be-medical-doctor Kyriakos Mitsotakis surprised medical staff at hospitals on Wednesday when he claimed that “ICUs are in fact “unnecessary” as there is no medical “study that there are more deaths of intubated Covid-patients outside ICU than inside.” “Yes, there are intubated [Covid-patients] outside the ICUs. …

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Greece’s epidemiology experts and the government are considering additional restrictions to contain the spread of the coronavirus in the country, especially after the new Covid-19 variant Omicron. At the same time there is a dramatic increase of Covid-related deaths that have been an average of 85-95 per day. Recorded is …

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Greece’s main opposition left-wing SYRIZA demands the establishment of a Parliamentary commission that will investigate the funding of media by the conservative government and thus with taxpayers money. The Committee should investigate “repeated acts of manipulation of public opinion by the Mitsotakis government with money of taxpayers, who on their …

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The Greek government will take over the management of the cash assistance programme for asylum seekers in Greece as of October 1, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Thursday. Since the Spring of 2017, cash assistance has been provided to more than 200,000 vulnerable asylum seekers …

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Over half of the Greeks consider that the economic policy measures announced by PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis do not affect them. At the same time, ruling New Democracy is losing in public opinion polls in September 2021, when compared to a year earlier. According to a MRB public opinion poll conducted …

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Leader of main opposition party SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance and former left-wing Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras, said that the conservative government “is on a course that resembles a vertigo,” and that “it will not see the end of its four-year term, as early elections will have to be called due to the …

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Greek hospital workers protest compulsory vaccination on Wednesday as the deadline for unvaccinated health workers expired on September 1 and the first notices of suspension without pay started to be issued. The government move to suspend unvaccinated health workers could send home 8,000 to 10,000 people and drive to desperation …

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“The houses will be rebuilt, the forest will recover in time…,” said Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis during a brief visit to the outskirts of Varimpompi fire that burned down on Tuesday. “We were up against an extremely difficult fire in conditions of extreme hot weather. The most nightmarish fires …

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Greece is considering to allow citizens get vaccinated without a previous appointment with the aim to boost a wall of immunity as soon as possible as the vaccinations program has slowed down. On July 25, only 46.8% are fully vaccinated and another 7% have got only a first jab waiting …

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Leader of main opposition party SYRIZA, Alexis Tsipras, accused the government for the mini lockdown on Mykonos saying that the island is the most characteristic example of the government’s total failure in dealing with the pandemic. Visiting the island’s health center and meeting with the mayor of Mykonos he noted …

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An unbelievable incident took place on the Cyclades island of Paros, when six teenagers got infected with coronavirus and there was no place to be accommodated and isolated. They had to spend 16 hours in the parking lot of the parking place of the Health Center, until the state broadcaster …

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The Greek government turns to local “influencers” to convince citizens to participate to the vaccination program as coronavirus infections started to increase again. Artists, mayors, athletes and priests are among the “influnecers” the government wants to mobilize, media report. Just a week after the announcement of the “Freedom Pass” – …

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Greece’s main opposition party SYRIZA accused the government on Monday that it is building a “false covid-19 success story,” after an epidemiologist said that the national committee did not recommend “no masks outdoors.” “The fact that the government once again ignored the Committee of Infectious Diseases and asked the citizens …

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The media market in Greece is characterised by digital fragmentation, lack of trust in news, a politically polarised press and dependence form the government, the annual report “Digital News Report 2021” by the Reuters Institute  has found. Longstanding political polarisation in Greece was reflected again in its media landscape in …

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