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  1. Tsipras sails through multi-bill vote, looks to disbursement and debt relief
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    ’ court regarding the disbursement of bailout funds and debt relief. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras saw.... Other late changes saw the tax on beer increase from June 1, 2016 (instead of of Jan 1, 2018... subsidy for low-income pensioners this year, as well as funding employment schemes and tackling

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  2. Parties locked in tug of war over troubled universities
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    Society

    was built upon by subsequent governments and extended with a strategy which saw the creation of numerous... of the Diamantopoulou law criticised what it saw as a deep politicisation of decision-making on all... decisions around funding, staffing, student intake and departmental structure are centralised through

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  3. Promises and challenges of Greece's "green new deal"

    EconomyFeatures

    Democracy government to speed up “de-lignitisation” - though it no doubt also saw an opportunity to put... to be systematically incentivised after 2001, and the ensuing decade saw a rapid growth in the installation... for by the 10-year plan is estimated at just under 44 billion euros. Total public funding in the region of 10

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  4. Newsletter 318 - 26/11/2021

    Newsletters

    than 1 in 5 respondents saw a significant benefit from the government’s energy support package... campaigns that saw a variety of Greek media outlets receive more than 40 million euros in total... years and the average funding cost stood at 0.31 pct.MacroeconomyCharts of the weekBudget The Finance

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  5. Company closures dropped sharply during the pandemic
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    EconomyFeatures

    and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles” which saw 8,082 closures. While that may seem... actually dropped 18.9 percent. In fact, only one sector saw an increase in the number of closures in 2020: electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply, which saw an increase of 26.4 percent

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  6. Wage ruling gives gov't immediate fiscal headache, political one may come later

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    on wage maturities If this proves to be correct, the government faces a challenge in finding... program review being carried out by the troika. It has struggled to reach this amount so finding... the impact that wage cuts would have on the party’s popularity. However, finding new savings could

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  7. October revenues reverse earlier shortfall, annual primary surplus in sight

    Economy

    to the targets being beaten over the last four months, even though there is a steady increase

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  8. Two hurdles left for coalition this year before bigger challenges in 2014
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    Greece’s coalition has two more hurdles to clear before it stumbles over the finishing line at the end of the year, exhausted and battered but not quite yet beaten. The first challenge is to pass the new property tax, which unites previous disparate levies in one charge, through Parliament. The new

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  9. First round of local elections leave Greek politics finely balanced
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    Democracy’s incumbent Vassilis Michaloliakos was beaten into second place by independent Yiannis Moralis

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  10. Wages index edges up YoY in Q1 after sinking by 24.8 pct since 2010

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    beaten by that of Cyprus (-7.9 percent). In addition, Greece and Cyprus are the only two countries

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