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Tsipras facing decision over timing of vote on Prespes Agreement
PoliticsGreek Politicsregarding the Macedonia name agreement, which looks set to trigger the end of SYRIZA’s coalition... that the Interior Ministry is asking for an extra 60 million euros from the Finance Ministry to carry out... to discuss election issues. Interior Minister Alexis Haritsis has reportedly stepped up his meetings
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Newsletter 279 -13/11/2020
discussion that the government had set aside the advice of some experts to cancel the religious.... Interior Minister Takis Thedorikakos was also left out of the new line-up to be replaced by Agriculture... Interior Minister, to be replaced by Christos Tarantilis. Altogether, 17 changes were made, including
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Parties gear up for vote on bill permitting private universities
PoliticsGreek Politicsdisagree. The proposal to allow foreign universities to set up branches in Greece, thereby bypassing... before receiving an email from the Interior Ministry regarding the postal vote. The inference... available and does not contain contact information. The Interior Ministry issued a statement denying
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Newsletter 106 - 10/02/2017
deficit increasing at double-digit rate of 11.8 percent. Fall in apartment prices eases in Q4 Fall in last quarter is the slowest since early 2009, when prices dropped for the first time Apartment prices... drop rate since Q1 2009, when the apartment prices index fell for the first time. Compared
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Newsletter 52 - 20/11/2015
passed the omnibus bill containing the last set of prior actions to unlock the next sub-tranche of 2... into the Unified Auxiliary Insurance Fund (ETEA). The first set of new pension measures would reportedly target... or included in the second set of prior actions. Harder and more painful, the second set of measures
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ND prepares first three bills for votes before Parliament's summer recess
PoliticsGreek Politics’s 158 MPs would vote, but what policy agenda the centre-right party would set out over the three-day debate. The government is set to bring three bills to Parliament by August 10, when the House... is also set to contain a provision for the scrapping of the so-called university "asylum" law, which
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Parliament's bailout probe has potential to be politically toxic
PoliticsGreek PoliticsParliament is set to discuss in the next few days (possibly on Monday) a proposal by SYRIZA and Independent Greeks MPs to set up an inquiry into the circumstances in which Greece signed up to both... forces. It is a perhaps not such an uncanny coincidence that the parliamentary inquiry is set
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Trash dispute troubles SYRIZA ahead of political lull
PoliticsGreek Politics, though, seems set to keep up its pressure on the government via other means, especially by highlighting... disbursement, Athens will have to show that it has used the 0.8 billion euros set aside from that tranche to clear arrears, which currently stand at around 5 billion euros. It will also have to set aside some
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Newsletter 194 -15/02/2018
Primary residences deal secured Govt set to send proposal to institutions after finding common... been reported that the threshold in this case will be set at 250,000 euros. Secondly, the value of the residual mortgage will be considered. In this case, the cieling will be set at 130,000 euros
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Ministers unveil lengthy payment schemes for unpaid taxes and contributions
EconomyProgrammeMinister Alexis Tsipras specifically, regarding a set a tax relief measures. SYRIZA has been trailing... Haritsis and Deputy Finance Minister Katerina Papanatsiou set out the parameters of the three different... qualify for the 120 instalments, with the minimum monthly payment being set at 30 euros. For those
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