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New Democracy

Greece: New Democracy government deepens attacks on pensions

By John Vassilopoulos 10 March 2020 Pension legislation, submitted by Labour Minister Yiannis Vroutsis and passed into law February 27, is the first major pension...

For sale: Greek islands, hotels and historic sites

In Greece today, government power comes with few trappings. Unable to tap capital markets and dependent wholly on international aid, the debt-stricken country’s senior officials are acrobats in a tightrope act. They are placating creditors, whose demands at times seem insatiable, and citizens, whose shock is never far away.