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Govt grabs opportunity offered by escape clause to entice voters with support package
Economyreshuffle has had an impact on overall sentiment and the public’s view of the Prime Minister. Despite..., that 3.6 pct forecast is now being revised to just shy of 6 pct. This has created the fiscal space... in the repayment of the tax advance refunds that can reach up to 75 pct, a liquidity measure
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New Democracy considers adjusting course after losses to right and centre
PoliticsGreek PoliticsNew Democracy’s slump in the European Parliament election has set in motion a strategy rethink... Sunday’s voters, as well as a large measure of fluidity in their choices. Around one in three voters... the results have clearly prompted some soul-searching in the party, Mitsotakis has so far not faced
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Newsletter 185 -30/11/2018
of so-called “positive” measures, whose aim, partly, is to drive home the message that Greece has... to implement all of the counter-measures. This has led to the reduction of the corporate tax As early election... rather than being carried out in one go. The other measure announced was this year’s “social dividend
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Newsletter 214 -12/07/2019
Mitsotakis has picked his new cabinet, held a first meeting with his ministers and decided the first... foresee the scrapping of the university asylum provisions. has a team of three deputy minister... Vesyropoulos, who’s the deputy in charge of tax policy and the public wealth, has been an MP for ND since
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Adult skills in Greece lacking, indicates OECD survey
Societyby the Paris-based organisation has found. Only about one in 20 adults in Greece attain the highest levels...-born, native-language adults in Greece. As part of its ongoing work to measure and improve adult skills around the world, the OECD has tested the skills of more than 50,000 16 to 65 year olds in Chile
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Greece tax wedge rises two places to 13th highest among OECD countries, report finds
EconomyFeaturesThe Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has published a bulletin... are subject to. Describing the tax wedge, which the OECD calculates as the measure of the tax... at the net average tax rate, which is defined as a measure of the net tax on labour income paid directly
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Govt faces fallout from hospital vaccine mandate, as school opening poses fresh challenges
PoliticsGreek Politicsleadership to suspend the measure as a “corrective gesture of goodwill”, in order to allow dialogue... while their suspension notices were being processed the full effects of the measure and the reactions... government, which has sought to emphasise the readiness of border defences as the crisis in Afghanistan has
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First TV debate does little to fire up election contest
PoliticsGreek Politicstaking part answer questions from journalists on pre-agreed topics, left little room... deterioration in Tsipras’s relationship with the economist, which has also involved Varoufakis firing... education, which has prompted a substantial outcry from schools and parents. Attention will now shift
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Mistrust in news reporting persists amid chaotic media landscape
Societyin various countries, has shown persistently high levels of mistrust in news sources among Greek... percent of respondents gave this answer. In keeping with other surveys of the same nature, Greeks... in the Greek online news market, but progress has been slow, amounting so far to a register for state
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Athens broadly satisfied with EU Council approach on Turkey
PoliticsForeign Policythat the tension [in the East Med] has decreased and delaying taking concrete decisions to implement... islands while their asylum request has been rejected. Pandemic dominates Turkey, however, was not on top... will be the predominant one across Europe and the answer to this is to speed up vaccinations.”
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