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Athens sees diplomatic progress and obstacles on migration
PoliticsForeign Policytheir lives in danger trying to cross illegally by land or sea.” Turkey and NGOs are called upon... and Interior ministers According to press reports, the Council recognises the increased burden
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Newsletter 85 - 05/08/2016
In a non-paper issued on Wednesday, the Finance Ministry clarified that budget revenues had beaten... that someone fired at least one bullet at a building in central Athens that houses the Mexican Embassy... had one such example this week when the Supreme Court, following an appeal by one of its prosecutors
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Tsipras and Mitsotakis cheer Macron win, hope to benefit
PoliticsGreek Politicshopes. Tsipras tweeted shortly after it emerged that Macron had beaten far-right rival Marine Le Pen... and Gabriel to find a solution. His message ended thus: “I do not want my generation to be the one.... Mitsotakis has portrayed his effort as one to overturn the Greek coalition’s populist approach and will now
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For better or worse: Greece's bailout exit deja vu
Agorais so bad, how does it compare to the one that they were working towards and were willing to accept... tax rates and investment spending if targets were beaten. All crisis governments had first-hand.... One option was an Enhanced Conditions Credit Line (ECCL). The other was to use the remaining funds
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Bulgaria's Covid-19 vaccination fiasco: excessive risks, mediocre results
AgoraIn a recent opinion piece by the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal, the EU’s Covid-19 vaccine rollout has been dubbed a fiasco. However, if one looks at EU’s poorest and most corrupt member Bulgaria, one will see a catastrophe. While EU’s vaccination response has been lukewarm, its
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VAT and income taxes buoy revenue performance as primary surplus target is beaten in Sep
EconomyMacroeconomyThe budget primary balance in September was confirmed at a surplus of almost 6 billion euros, compared to a surplus of 52 million euros in the same month of 2022, according to the final Finance Ministry (MoF) budget execution data released on Wednesday....
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Government lines up crackdown on NGOs as next piece in harsher migration policy
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government is doubling down on the stricter migration policy and harsher rhetoric on the issue, which has intensified since Thanos Plevris took over as the country's Migration Minister. The ruling New Democracy party is hoping that this change of st...
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New Year reshuffle brings more MPs into cabinet, keeps key ministers in post
PoliticsGreek Politicscalling for in recent weeks. One of the highest-profile casualties of the reshuffle is Labour Secretary... – however critics note that it is still far from representative, with women still holding fewer than one... the deputy agriculture minister. Interior Minister Takis Thedorikakos has also been left out of the new
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Two hurdles left for coalition this year before bigger challenges in 2014
PoliticsGreek Politicsat the end of the year, exhausted and battered but not quite yet beaten. The first challenge is to pass the new property tax, which unites previous disparate levies in one charge, through Parliament. The new... threatened during Friday’s vote. Only two backbench MPs, one from New Democracy and another from
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Newsletter 83 - 22/07/2016
for the winning party, or the one in second place, to gather multiple partners to form a new... together. The possibility of such a government being formed seem slim. One provision of the law passed... lenders to reach an agreement on debt relief. He added that lower fiscal targets could be one
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