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Agora, the local media was correct to lead with this story. There was only one problem: Tsakalotos never said... appearing online in Greece, one site after the other snapped it up, including the country’s largest... the title and the leading paragraphs, while one even suggested that the finance minister’s garbled
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Going for Growth: What next for Greece's economy and banks?
Agora, as disclosed by the OECD[11], and this is one the clearest problems for the country, it’s economy... management sectors, both underdeveloped at present when one considers that Greece presently has 52 asset... at marketing itself to tourists to visit/fall in love with it, and yet only have one decent sized
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Tsipras hammers out dividing lines, trumpets battle with 'elite'
PoliticsGreek Politicsgovernance, distilling the challenge faced by his party into a binary “Us vs Them” struggle. One... his vision for the EP vote through the prism of national politics. “On the one side is the revived.... “They will have to drink the bitter cups one by one,” added the prime minister. “First
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Athens holds fire on debt schemes, prepares tax relief measures
EconomyProgrammethat this will be one of the top items on the agenda when the creditors return to Athens on May 6 for the third... will be included in the scheme. Anyone wanting to pay off their debt in a one-off payment will have... to unveil before the May 26 European Parliament vote, one of the interventions being considered
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PM aiming to unveil expansionary fiscal measures after Easter
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government is preparing a series of permanent and one-off fiscal measures aimed at providing... products from the higher rate, currently at 24 percent, to the lower one, which is now at 14 percent... to be considering reinstating a discount on the upfront payment of income tax. Among the one-off measures being
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No late rally for Tsipras
Agorapicking of personnel appeared to galvanise KINAL and its voters. This was one of several moves... not to, Tsipras was left with just one option. He had to see the process through so he could claim to have..., his Alternate Health Minister Pavlos Polakis launched one of his usual uncouth social media tirades
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Newsletter 212 -28/06/2019
. One conservative official after the other is encouraging voters to cast their ballots on July 7... by the SYRIZA government. “This means the only government which could be formed at that time is one... leader said that one of the first things his government would do is to seek consensus from other
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ND puts changes in education and justice system high on agenda
PoliticsGreek Politicsdirection made by SYRIZA during its time in office. One of the emblematic changes will be to scrap...’s universities and make them more independent. The new minister, one of just five women..., reforming the education sector will be one of the big challenges for New Democracy, which will have
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Is Greece facing a new migration crisis?
Societyaged under 18 on their own in Greece, of which only one in four is housed in appropriate facilities... at the end of 2017. One notable exception has been a bilateral agreement to relocate 1,000 refugees... almost entirely under its administration. Indeed, one of the most eloquent condemnations has come from
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S&P raises Greek rating to 'BB-' on reduced fiscal risks, lifting of capital controls
EconomyS&P raised on Friday its credit rating for Greece by one notch, taking it to ‘BB-’, and kept its positive outlook for the country. Now S&P and Fitch are on a par, while Moody’s has Greece one grade..., the agency notes that Greece has one of the most advantageous debt profiles of all the sovereigns it rates
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