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Tsipras bids farewell to MoU, eyes new start for Greece and SYRIZA
PoliticsGreek Politicsbailout, suggesting the country has a chance to make a new start after completing more than eight years... on Tuesday and made numerous references to Odysseus’s journey in his speech, which lasted less than eight minutes. The two key themes that emerged from the address were the attempt by Tsipras to put
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Tsipras pledges array of tax cuts, hopes for break on pensions
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor the self-employed who earn more than 7,000 euros a year would be reduced from 20 percent to 13.3 percent... euros in fiscal space, for instance) than if he focussed on just what could be done before the next.... The prime minister argued that the ANEL leader would not want to put Greece’s economic recovery at risk
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Newsletter 178 -12/10/2018
shaky lately as Panos Kammenos goes against the government line on more than the Macedonia name issue..., that the same parliamentarians would be willing to back Tsipras in a confidence vote, although he could put... previously, albeit higher than the last quarter of 2017, when the economy grew by 2 percent. Real GDP
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Athens to send draft budget to Brussels after talks with IMF on pensions
EconomyProgrammecuts than a few weeks ago, when European officials appeared reticent and IMF spokesman Gerry Rice... suggest there is still a chance that the European lenders might ask for the pension cuts to be put on hold, pending future fiscal performance, rather than scrapped completely.
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Private sector employees increase in 2018 along with average wage rise of 4.6 pct
EconomyMacroeconomywere employed by more than one firm. Compared to last year, the number of companies has risen by 10,077... (68.6 percent) put in a working week of 35 hours or more. Around 25.2 percent worked between 10... percent earned more than 1,500 euros per month. Employees aged 30-44 made up the largest proportion
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Foreclosure bill undergoing final adjustments to satisfy creditors
EconomyProgrammeof the initial proposal put forward by the government with regard to strategic defaulters was one... is that the applicant’s total savings should be no more than 50 percent of the unpaid loan, which means... by the borrower should be no more than double the threshold for the primary residence i.e. 500,000 euros
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KINAL vies for space, plays hard-to-get ahead of elections
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe mandate to form a government in New Democracy’s hands first. If the conservatives fail to put... receive less than 25 percent, and close to around 20, this is considered enough to prevent... for SYRIZA was at 22.5 percent (which is 1 point higher than a month earlier). Backing for New Democracy
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In latest election pledge, Tsipras vows to ditch lower tax-free threshold
PoliticsGreek Politicsto consider scrapping the tax measure than there was regarding the pension cuts. It should also... less of a foregone conclusion than many observers currently expect. One could argue that Tsipras.... The SYRIZA leader tried to put across an optimistic view of the course Greece is on after leaving
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SYRIZA lines up more relief measures to entice voters
PoliticsGreek Politicsis currently working on the plan, which will be put to Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras for final approval... said that the programme for unpaid contributions would be available to more than 1 million debtors... Democracy in the European Parliament vote might make the general election more of a contest than
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Tsipras on the spot again following minister's latest outburst
PoliticsGreek Politics, rather than just the behaviour of a single minister. Nevertheless, not for the first time, Polakis’s abrasive style has put the SYRIZA leader in a tough spot. The alternate minister’s reaction...-proposing a vote of confidence in the government rather than Polakis, the prime minister is trying
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