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Parliamentary inquiry to handle bribery claims as parties build differing narratives
PoliticsGreek PoliticsA debate lasting more than 20 hours ended early on Thursday with Parliament voting to set up... probed, will be sent back to the judiciary for further investigation rather than to a special court... imposed. He suggested, though, that this involved medical professionals rather than politicians. He
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Newsletter 152 -23/02/2018
by the end of the programme in August. The total figure is now seen at 16.4 billion euros rather than... politicians were bribed by the pharmaceutical giant. During a debate lasting more than 20 hours, New... been fully probed, will be sent back to the judiciary for further investigation rather than
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Whether an "early" or "clean" exit, it's the same old story for Greece
Agora, this time with a mandate to implement the third MoU rather than to rip up the second, as was the case... and the return of growth. The SYRIZA leader hopes to leave this as his (positive) legacy rather than... territory when the third MoU ends on August 20. While putting asside more than eight years
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Overdue social security debt at 31.87 bln in Q1, debtors at 1.2 mln
EconomyMacroeconomy) revealed. Until the end of 2016, KEAO was fed by overdue contributions of more than 5,000 euros from... from various funds, as mentioned previously, which totalled more than 1 million across the year... that 69 percent of debtors owe less than 15,000 euros each for an aggregate amount of 3.36 billion
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The tie that binds
Agora, unpaid taxes continue to pile up and have passed the 100-billion-euro mark, more than 20 percent... for the interest payments and amortisation of more than 95 billion euros lent to Greece as part...) and the disbursal of more than 3 billion euros to buy back some of the 10.4 billion euros that Athens owes
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Newsletter 173 -07/09/2018
than expected, but they will be closely followed by economic policy promises from New Democracy leader.... The government is also examining the possibility of poor families, with annual incomes of less than 9,000 euros and properties worth less than 85,000 euros, being completely exempt from ENFIA
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Newsletter 180 -26/10/2018
that the current set of decision makers have a higher standard of ethics than their predecessors. Tsipras... euros, or 176.1 percent of GDP, which is lower than the 178.6 percent in April’s estimate, mostly thanks... of the economy but at 317.4 billion is nominally higher than the 315 billion that it settled in 2016. Overall
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December hirings balance positive by 5,970 with annual balance for 2018 up by 141,003 places
EconomyMacroeconomywith 5,970 more hirings than departures, according to data from the Labour Ministry’s Ergani information system. Compared to December 2017, there were 9,345 more departures than hirings. Ergani noted... to 45.7 percent of the total, meaning that less than half of all jobs created in 2018 were full-time
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Newsletter 191 -25/01/2018
will conclude with a primary surplus of more than 3.7 percent, above the 3.5 percent target... by no more than 5 percent. In the meantime, Athens seems to be preparing to go back to the markets... On an aggregate basis, full-time employment dropped to 45.7 percent of the total, meaning tat less than half
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Newsletter 197 -8/03/2019
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... by repurposing any fiscal overperformance, rather than redistributing it, as the current government has done
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