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Greece's new finance minister lines up for a marathon (and several short sprints)
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe naming of economist Gikas Hardouvelis as Greece’s new finance minister took most observers... not to change the two deputy ministers at the Finance Ministry – Christos Staikouras and Giorgos Mavraganis... economist to take up the job at the Finance Ministry. The new finance minister cannot say he is unaware
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Finance Ministry, Stournaras disagree over fiscal space for expansionary measures
EconomyProgrammein Parliament, Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos attempted to deflect with humour the reported concerns about... a testy relationship with SYRIZA from his days as finance minister in the government of Antonis Samaras... that Stournaras must have been looking at the budgets he was responsible for when he was finance minister, noting
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Finance Ministry faces balancing act as it starts to draft 2020 budget
EconomyProgrammeThe Finance Ministry is getting down to the business of drafting the first version of the 2020.... The challenge for Finance Ministry official is to find a way to ensure that all of the numbers add up... and in 2020. The government has denied that there will be any fiscal gap in either year, but former Finance
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Finance Ministry costs new support package, but questions remain over electricity subsidies
EconomyFinance Ministry officials held a press conference on Monday to provide additional details about... International Fair. Finance Minister Christos Staikouras and his colleagues made sure... previously, with growth slowing to 2.1 pct next year. The finance minister noted that investments have
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Newsletter 18 - 06/03/2015
than Greek banks. Fractures emerge within government Finance minister's stance on some issues raises... more evident as time passes. One of these is a result of Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis straying... in Piraeus, where the privatisation of the Piraeus Port Authority (OLP) is still pending. The finance
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Greek SMEs struggle most for finance versus eurozone peers
EconomyMacroeconomyThe latest ECB semi-annual survey on the access to finance for enterprises in the euro area... hurdles among their eurozone peers. Access to finance was mentioned by 27 percent (from 24 percent... higher than the euro area average of 9 percent. Access to finance was considered the least important
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Finance Ministry grapples with escalating cost of pandemic
EconomyFinance minister Christos Staikouras announced on Monday that the cost of support measures... on Wednesday cited Finance Ministry in estimating that Tuesday evening’s announcement that retail stores... euros, according to the Finance Ministry. Parliament In its announcement on Monday, Staikouras
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Newsletter 69 - 08/04/2016
-performing loan (NPL) market. Following Thursday’s meetings, the Finance Ministry released a non-paper... reportedly slightly lowered the pension replacement rates for the first 15 working A Finance Ministry... threshold to 9,100 euros. According to the Finance Ministry, the new direct tax framework would result
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Newsletter 111 - 17/03/2017
the remaining differences in time for the next gathering of eurozone finance ministers on April 7. Speaking to MPs on Thursday, Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos suggested that a staff-level agreement... there would be any global deal (including debt relief and the fiscal path for the period Finance Minister
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Finance Ministry scrambles to correct property tax after error-strewn debut
EconomyMacroeconomyand left the Finance Ministry with plenty of revision work to do. This tax is due to replace... billion but the Ministry of Finance (MoF) aims to rake in 2.65 billion, which corresponds... the Finance Ministry did not take into account the discounts for specific categories of households
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