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Newsletter 86 - 26/08/2016
. Apartment prices fell by 2.7 percent in Q2, following a drop of 4.7 percent recorded in the previous... displayed apartment prices contracted for the 21st straight quarter by 0.6 percent in Q2. Since the peak of 102.2 in Q3 2008, the apartment prices index has fallen by 41.7 percent to a record low of 59.6
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Uncomfortable questions regarding TV auction mount for coalition
PoliticsGreek Politicsregarding the recent auction for TV licences, which the coalition has held up as a shining example... against the tender by the existing TV channels, most of whom failed to win permits in the recent... to rubber stamp the tender. A second controversial aspect to the TV permits auction has emerged this week
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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... the government save some face and prove that it is determined to regulate the TV sector. “We’ll see now whether
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Golden Dawn trial begins against complex political backdrop
PoliticsGreek PoliticsMore than 18 months after rapper Pavlos Fyssas was murdered by Golden Dawn member Giorgos Roupakias near Piraeus, the Neo-Nazi party’s leader, MPs and numerous members are going on trial. A total of 69 people, including Golden Dawn chief Nikos Michaloliakos and all 18 people elected to Parliament
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Govt unveils affordable housing scheme, but struggles to shunt wiretapping aside
PoliticsGreek Politicsto benefit a total of 135,000 people. The scheme is designed to address a growing social problem... euros of EU funding to renovate properties that are currently lying empty so they can be rented
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Finance Ministry seeks solutions to address growing housing problem
Economyto housing, with a total budget of €6.5 billion. This allows interested parties to easily gather all... programmes, such as “My Home 1”, “My Home 2”, “Renovate - Rent”, the return of one month's rent every
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New asylum law comes up against old failings
Agorabe outside any apartment complex or office block in the Netherlands. Joyous shrieks are heard nearby.... It outstrips the figure for the Netherlands, where 30,380 applications were received in total last year... returned a total of 14,880 third country nationals to their homelands. Of these, 2,650 were forced
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Unpaid taxes keep rising, tax audits short of targets
EconomyMacroeconomy. The outcome of tax audits on high wealth individuals showed collected taxes at 40.5 percent of total... temporary audits correspond to 73.9 percent of total. The full target is set at 65 percent, implying... increase in the cumulative debt reflects payments against ‘old’ debt, which amounted to 852 million so
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Travel balance increases by wide margin in June from last year's tourism collapse
EconomyMacroeconomy. Visitor numbers from these countries were negligible in June 2020. In total, arrivals from the EU 27... year. In total, arrivals showed a drop of 20.4 percent in the first half of the year and came... to 790.7 million euros for the month, increasing by 852 percent year-on-year (YoY). Travel payments
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Athens harbours big hopes for Egypt energy deal, keeps eye on Turkey's role
PoliticsForeign Policyfor Energy so it can be eligible for EU support funds. Egypt has completed interconnections with Libya... of Northern Cyprus. On the other hand, Cairo and Athens share a common line on the issue of Libya..., and the International Law of the Sea,” he said. The two ministers also discussed the issue of Libya
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