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Government under pressure from TV permit and Attica Bank claims
PoliticsGreek PoliticsTV licence tender had fallen apart in “legal, political and moral” terms, with the conservatives... last year the government has held up the TV tender as a prime example of its self-professed attempt... as having close ties with some SYRIZA ministers, was one of the four successful bidders in the TV auction
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Newsletter 417 - 22/03/2024
, with lower profitability volatility and improved asset quality and capital buffers, would be credit... by the Interior Ministry, a Greek prosecutor and the country's data protection authority, while several... the upcoming European Parliament elections, and the resignations of a senior Interior Ministry official
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Mitsotakis attempts to outmanoeuvre Tsipras over lower tax-free threshold
PoliticsGreek Politicson Wednesday in a TV interview that his party will table on Monday an amendment proposing... on low incomes who do not currently pay income tax would start to be taxed, even though the amounts... once suggested that he would resign rather than lower the threshold. Neither party wants to be seen
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New episode in Greek TV drama
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe suspense continues. A high court will hear a case against the government over its TV licensing... the news media. The Council of State’s 16-9 decision on Tuesday to take the complaints of private TV... stations forced to pay millions to stay on the air or which lost out in the bidding. In the 246-million
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Stournaras in firing line for arguing Greeks can pay more taxes
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat Greeks are not overtaxed caused a political ruction. Stournaras made the claim in a TV interview... and 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
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TV licencing becomes key political battleground after court verdict
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAfter suffering the blow of seeing its centrepiece legislation on TV licences being shot down... a new ESR board so it can launch a new tender for TV licences that will not be blocked... to pay a fee to continue broadcasting with the temporary licences they hold until the tender
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Newsletter 389 - 14/07/2023
to speak a week after Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. In a TV interview on Thursday, Mitsotakis... become a millstone for the leftists. His popularity ratings were low, often lower than some other... an omnibus bill that ranges from the new pay scale in the public sector to the extension of some
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Reported widening of revenue shortfall in Feb as liquidity worries persist
Economyin January and stood at 622 million, slightly above target of 611 million. Lower income from... to 500 million euros in February is attributed to: Lower consumption taxes, reflecting a slowdown... understanding is that this year’s dividend is certainly lower by 177 million, but not at the extent
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Newsletter 210 -07/06/2019
. Mitsotakis identified four ways in which Greece can attract more investment: Lower taxes, less... corporation tax from 28 percent to 20 percent (along with lower VAT and dividends tax) and slashing the ENFIA property tax by 30 percent across-the-board. In an interview with Open TV on Thursday morning
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Court delivers serious blow over TV permits, gov't vows to fight on
PoliticsGreek Politicsof State deemed that the recent tender leading to four bidders gaining TV licences and existing channels... the government could survive given that it had elevated the importance of the TV permits tender... and that efforts would continue to regulate the TV sector. When the decision was announced on Wednesday
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