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Strong showing in local elections for ND as it targets majority in national vote
PoliticsGreek Politicspolitics and is destined to win the general elections that are due to take place on July 7. The one concern... one seat), SYRIZA will gain 74 seats, KINAL 23, KKE 16, Golden Dawn 15, Greek Solution 12 seats..., which came third in the European Parliament elections on May 26 with 7.7 percent of the vote. One
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Mitsotakis focuses on investment and taxes as ND launches election campaign
PoliticsGreek Politicsis also one that many investors from abroad look to as a sign of whether the business environment..., which will be one of the elements of the project. His comments regarding Elliniko were part of a wider... leader referred to the fact that SYRIZA has “borrowed” a number of the tax policies set out by New
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East Med concerns not slowing up election campaign as ND plans for office
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat the centre-right party is set to double the number of MPs it elects, if opinion polls are correct... one of the top places on the state list. Reports suggest that Kyriakos Mitsotakis is planning to change the structure of the government, which would be one of the first pieces of legislation brought
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ND defends plans for three-pillar pension system as SYRIZA looks for weak spot
PoliticsGreek Politicsis similar to the one implemented under Chilean dictator Agustin Pinochet. Achtsioglou suggested... being transferred from the Supplementary Insurance and One-Off Benefits Fund (ETEAP) between 2020... outlay on pensions, retirees would also be able to earn more. Taxes The ND official also set out
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Tsipras responds to criticism of SYRIZA record in bid to rally support
PoliticsGreek Politicsmanifesto for the July 7 elections. This means that to some extent Tsipras achieved one of the goals he... a better deal than the one Wolfgang Schaeuble had tried to encourage, while keeping Greece... and that this is one of the main reasons that voters have turned from SYRIZA to New Democracy. He
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Newsletter 215 -19/07/2019
tax cuts The new government is preparing to set out in detail its plans for the next four years... proposed tax cuts over two bills, one which will be submitted to Parliament in the coming days... and MeRA25 were sworn in on Wednesday morning. Just over one in three (112) are serving as MPs
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ND lining up tax, development and labour legislation for autumn
PoliticsGreek PoliticsVroutsis submitted two emergency amendments. One set a limit on pensions and the second scrapped the need... back in Athens on September 16 and the mission chiefs are due to follow on September 23. One... the opposition and it seems that this will be one of the main political battlegrounds in the coming
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Piraeus Bank posts net profit of 20 mln in Q2 from continued operations, NPE sales step up
EconomyBankingincome (PPI) declined by 12 percent quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) to 188 million. When excluding one-off... stood at 196 million euros. Excluding one-off items, PPI for the same quarter last year remained... was improving and that further sales were on track, including one worth 2 billion euros. “The rebound
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Newsletter 234 -10/01/2020
. The possibility of Greece joining the US F-35 fighter jet programme was set to be one of the issues... in the post-programme surveillance. Nevertheless, it was one of the few tangible developments to emerge during... with an agreed maturity of up to one year decreased by 3 bps to 0.36 percent. 2 Unemployment at 16.6 pct
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Newsletter 241 - 28/02/2020
, at least one the government’s arguments hit wide of the mark. Government spokesman Stelios Petsas... on Thursday, including the first one in Athens, triggering shortages of face masks... in Santorini, one of the favourite destinations for Chinese visitors. Tourism minister Haris
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