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The targets and deadlines in Greece's privatisation programme
EconomyProgrammewill be updated on a semi-annual basis. b) Announce binding bid dates for Piraeus (OLP) and Thessaloniki (OLTH... steps for the sale of regional airports at the current terms with the already selected winning... and share purchase agreements by October, while binding offers are expected in November and parliament
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Simple majority for new electoral law, which threatens future complications
PoliticsGreek Politicswould lead to the abolition of the 50-seat bonus for the winning party, will not be implemented until... any kind of bonus to the winning party is a recipe for political instability. Simulations of previous... that the lack of a bonus for the winning party would make it much more difficult and complicated
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Newsletter 81 - 08/07/2016
Stato Italiane, submitted a binding offer for the sale of a 100-percent stake in rail operator TRAINOSE, while there were no binding offers Italy's Ferrovie was the only company to submit a binding offer... for the winning party but retaining the 3 percent threshold for entering Parliament – would apply
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Snap elections in Greece: The scenarios ahead
PoliticsGreek Politicsand the winning party would only need 35.6 percent to elect 151 of the 300 MPs. The former seems more... that beyond their opposition to austerity policies there is not a lot binding them. It is questionable... the euro played a significant part in preventing SYRIZA from winning the elections but many Greeks have
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Don't celebrate a French reconnection for EU just yet
Agorathe possibility of Le Pen, or someone like her, winning an election. “The prospect of a Le Pen presidency upsets... in working class areas, was a catalyst in Brexit without winning a single seat at a general... or will it break the spell binding the member states? These are just some of the immediate challenges facing
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Coalition's proposal for PR electoral system unlikely to clinch supermajority
PoliticsGreek Politics. The coalition’s proposal centres on three key themes: · Scrapping the 50-seat bonus for the winning part... for the conservatives, at the next elections. Scrapping the bonus means that the winning party, which... the issue as not too long ago it also proposed the abolition of the 50-seat bonus for the winning
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ND mulls next tax cuts as it prepares to unveil new electoral law
PoliticsGreek Politicsrepresentation system that will award a bonus to the winning party. Unlike the existing system, which... to use a sliding scale so the bonus is linked to the winning party’s performance. “We can’t have a situation where the winning party gets 18 percent and gets the same bonus as it would if it gained 38
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Newsletter 82 - 15/07/2016
seats at all for the winning party in a general election, applies immediately. If the bill gets a simple... for the winning party. Potami has proposed it should be one extra seat for every two percent of the vote... a fragile coalition of his own Socialist Party, Left Bloc, Communists and Greens. Costa, too, is finding
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Foreign minister toughens stance as first autumn polls pile pressure on government
PoliticsGreek Politicssecond term. Perhaps the most significant finding of the polls from the government’s perspective.... Mitsotakis knows that he needs to court a wide range of constituencies to have any chance of winning... and the toughening stance on migration, aimed at winning back right-wing conservatives, combined
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Tax and banks dominate government's thoughts amid opposition, public pressure
PoliticsGreek Politicsafter finding itself on the receiving end of more pressure from the opposition, but also public... of it, over this issue, his chances of winning a clear majority in the next general election... on finding ways of lightening the tax burden ahead of the next national vote, due in 2027. Naftemporiki
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