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Newsletter 183 -16/11/2018
to pension spending next year. The final hurdle that the coalition has to clear comes on Monday, when the Eurogroup will meet to give the definitive green light for the pre-legislated measure... in February at the earliest. Achieving this concession has been a major political goal for Prime Minister
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Newsletter 329 - 25/02/2022
regulator has also prepared domestic electricity producers for the possibility of switching generators... households will be taken next month, once the Finance Ministry has the data for tax revenues in February... in the next year is more than 5 billion euros. As a measure of the scale, the temporary tax cuts
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SYRIZA to test coalition with censure motion but victory unlikely
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDespite the contentious austerity policies the Greek government has implemented since being elected in June 2012, its decision to shut down public broadcaster ERT has caused political waves like no other measure. This was underlined on Thursday, when SYRIZA submitted a censure motion to Parliament
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Newsletter 153 -2/03/2018
. The sceptre of the tax measure being moved forward by a year is still hanging over Athens...) leader Fotis Kouvelis appointed alternate defence minister. The 69-year-old has been largely... has continued to support Tsipras in public and his appointment is seen by many commentators
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Govt puts focus on handouts, migration to take heat off surveillance affair
PoliticsGreek Politics. The row over the rescue of a group of migrants on the Greek-Turkish border has also given... to be that the timing of the revelations over the peak of the summer holidays has worked in the government’s favour and that the public will be focussed on other matters. Mitsotakis has his eye firmly
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In Erdogan's shadow
AgoraErdogan, who has been bolstered by the surprise elections results on Sunday that gave his Justice... of the vote. Although the mounting refugee crisis has made a meeting between Tsipras and Erdogan inevitable... highlighted that Turkey has been backsliding, particularly in the areas rule of law, freedom
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Effort for Greece and Albania to resolve diplomatic differences goes on back burner
PoliticsForeign Policyputs the brakes on an agreement that has been at the core of bilateral talks since June 2016, when... differences. The agreement between Athens and Skopje on the name issue has triggered strong reactions among... of maritime zones. For all these reasons, Athens has decided to postpone the agreement with Tirana
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Insurgent campaign from Kasselakis puts shock SYRIZA leadership win in touching distance
PoliticsGreek PoliticsUS-based entrepreneur Stefanos Kasselakis has sprung a major surprise by coming from virtually... performance in the two votes. Since then, though, the entrepreneur, who left Greece at the age of 14, has... for the leadership, he cast himself as an outsider who has the knowledge, talent and energy to take on Kyriakos
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Tsipras points to tax cuts as example of bailout exit benefits
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe timing of next year’s election until he has a clear picture of how the “positive measures” are shaping..., there is not enough fiscal space next year to implement all of the counter-measures. This has led... of the interventions is felt and as SYRIZA has a chance to get its narrative across, the political balance
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UnLuCky for some: Another painful lesson from the euro crisis
Agorahas repeatedly and openly admitted that the prescription for addressing the country’s predicament...), and the progress with external rebalancing has come at the expense of internal balance, notably sharply... prices have to fall in comparison to foreign prices and then profitability in the tradable sectors has
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