Search
- 
        
Mitsotakis plans cuts to pension contributions, aims to add private element to system
                PoliticsGreek PoliticsNew Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis has set out some of the policies he plans to unveil... sketched out the plans he has for Greece’s pension system. He had flagged up in a recent interview his... the pension system through the back door. This has often proved a politically sensitive issue
7% - 
        
Newsletter 238 -07/02/2020
                that New Democracy supported while in opposition as well, but has not provided tangible evidence to back up... motives may have been to blame but, again, no serious evidence of provocation has been forthcoming... measure aimed at deterring human traffickers. He also highlighted the government’s repeated chopping
7% - 
        
Newsletter 451 - 14/02/2025
                , Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has seen in recent days his choice for President of the Republic... the conservatives to draw a line under what has proved to be a less than straightforward exercise. Mitsotakis... in Tempe has added to the polarisation, leading some left-wing parties and some of the victims
7% - 
        
Newsletter 478 - 03/10/2025
                remarks challenge the government’s claim that it has done everything to clarify both cases... Kyriakos Mitsotakis has been trying to shift focus away from these scandals, which have damaged his...% support VAT cuts - a measure championed by the opposition but rejected by the PM. The announcements
7% - 
        
Mitsotakis takes growth message to Thessaloniki, keeps eye on bond profits
                PoliticsGreek Politics. The government has already passed legislation scrapping measures introduced by SYRIZA that were seen...) Mitsotakis has made since returning from his brief summer holiday, the Greek prime minister has stressed... of this message has been helped by the fact that some key projects, which had stalled under
7% - 
        
Athens preparing to present budget plans to lenders after tax cut pledges
                EconomyProgramme. The Finance Ministry has been working on the draft 2020 budget, which it has to submit to the European...’s tax cuts with the 3.5 percent of GDP primary surplus target for next year, which Mitsotakis has... security contributions, which is set to begin next summer, has an estimated cost of 200 million euros
7% - 
        
Newsletter 52 - 20/11/2015
                decline of 11.1 percent. The trailing index has fallen 8.1 percent in the last 12 months. Eurosystem... general election) leaves Tsipras with little room for manoeuvre, especially given that his government has a considerable reform task ahead of it. The coalition has not yet tackled tricky issues like
7% - 
        
Take your seats
                Agorathe disaster, which has been responsible for 99 deaths so far. This ended any government plans to celebrate... by the fiscal targets it has agreed, even if it also wants greater policy autonomy now that the third programme has been completed. On the other hand, the announcements were not of the type to get investors
7% - 
        
Greece's building activity continues its nosedive in July
                EconomyMacroeconomymeasure. In particular, the twelve-month trailing average indicates that building permits, surface... exhibiting a 57.3 percent drop over the trailing twelve months. Note that building activity...Greek building activity (measured by the number of building permits) dropped 24.0 percent in July
7% - 
        
Newsletter 113 - 31/03/2017
                from 2020 but the IMF appears to want the measure, worth 1 percent of GDP, to be implemented in one... this week has been on its MPs, with efforts to ensure that they will back the deal already underway... deal has to be weighed up as a whole. The argument from the prime minister’s office is that while
7%