Governance
No breaks on the path of radical reform
It took him just nine months in office in his first-ever term in government to score his first big win as head of the ministry responsible for bringing Greek bureaucracy into the digital age. This time around, as minister of education since June, it looks like his first major win in that post will come a bit sooner.
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Fresh batch of measures for sports violence unveiled
Deputy Sports Minister Giannis Voutsis introduced new measures to combat fan violence on Wednesday which include restricting each team to a single fan club, mandatory electronic security systems in Super League and Basket League stadiums, and €10,000-€100,000 fines for "low-level fan violence."
Undermining institutions
The practice of incorporating unrelated amendments into proposed legislation tabled in Parliament, particularly when it involves last-minute adjustments that serve obvious political self-interest, like those reducing the powers of local government, represents a continual erosion of the quality of parliamentary governance.
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Bureaucracy still feeds on procedures
If in recent years the state has managed to grab the low-hanging fruit, i.e. to achieve some easy victories in the digitization of the state, it is now called upon to target the fruit at the highest point of the tree.
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A steady compass
Events rarely do political planning any favors. They have a way of blindsiding decision-makers and overturning even the best-laid plans. Before taking office again, the government's top officials had emerged from a long period of successive crises and two election campaigns. Then the wildfires came.
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PM vows to prop up health sector with more staff
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsokakis reiterated on Thursday the government's commitment to the immediate recruitment of 10,000 people in the health sector.
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G-Cloud to shut down from 7 to 8 a.m. on Monday
Online public services will become unavailable for one hour on Monday due to an upgrade of the so-called Government Cloud (G-Cloud), said the Digital Governance Ministry's General Secretariat for Information Systems and Digital Governance.
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Pierrakakis: More than 99% of public sector services will be digital in four years
More than 99 pct of the services provided by the public sector will be digital in the next four years, Digital Governance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis said on Friday.
He said all the projects required to achieve this have been initiated, put up for tender and are financed by the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), "so they can essentially be ready in 2027."
Mytilineos in Sustainalytics’ list of Industry Top Rated Companies
MYTILINEOS is included in the list of Ιndustry Top Rated Companies by the international ESG rating agency Sustainalytics, as a result of its very good performance in the ESG and Sustainable Development criteria for 2021.
US Push for Decentralisation May not Solve Bosnia’s Problems
In his current statements to the regional media, Serwer has presented some possible measures supposedly intended to reform the Dayton arrangement. His argumentation is based primarily on a call for more centralisation that would limit the powers of Bosnia's ethnically defined entities and cantons.