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Tsipras conducts varied reshuffle in further bid to revitalise coalition
PoliticsGreek Politicsbe leaving the Interior Ministry to become SYRIZA’s secretary, several other frontline officials... role is Alexis Haritsis. The 41-year-old was appointed interior minister, replacing the outgoing... is one of the few cabinet members to emerge with his reputation relatively intact. The Interior
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Newsletter 417 - 22/03/2024
by the Interior Ministry, a Greek prosecutor and the country's data protection authority, while several... the upcoming European Parliament elections, and the resignations of a senior Interior Ministry official... that the email list was leaked from the Interior Ministry during the tenure of the caretaker government
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PM makes limited, cautious changes to cabinet after election disappointment
PoliticsGreek Politicsat ministerial level in five departments: Development, Migration, Interior, Labour and Agricultural... as Interior Minister. Kostas Tsiaras, once a justice minister under Mitsotakis, becomes the new agriculture minister. Niki Kerameus is being moved from the Interior Ministry to the Labour Ministry
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Newsletter 428 - 21/06/2024
: Development, Migration, Interior, Labour and Agricultural Development. The new head of the Development Ministry is Takis Theodorikakos, who has previously served as Interior Minister. Kostas Tsiaras... is being moved from the Interior Ministry to the Labour Ministry, where she is replacing one of the few
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New Year reshuffle brings more MPs into cabinet, keeps key ministers in post
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe deputy agriculture minister. Interior Minister Takis Thedorikakos has also been left out of the new... Petsas has been appointed Alternate Interior Minister, to be replaced by Christos Tarantilis... to the right” and “a party-political balancing act”. The elevation to the Interior Ministry of Makis Voridis
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University bill threatens PASOK consensus as probes launched into alleged infractions by politicians
PoliticsGreek Politicsinvestigation in the Interior Ministry, which is the suspected source of the data leak, while on Tuesday.... The Interior Ministry has denied that it provides voters’ contact information, while the chief...’s EP elections, but also because the suspicions of a data leak emerged within days of the Interior
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Athens grapples with awkward reduction of tax-free threshold
EconomyProgramme, will, among other issues, focus on plans to reduce the tax-free threshold for personal incomes. In its... of the personal income tax base largely through a reduction in the tax-free threshold. This matter has... percent). The broadening of the tax base meant that the previous tax-free threshold of 9,545 euros
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Mitsotakis attempts to outmanoeuvre Tsipras over lower tax-free threshold
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe pre-legislated reduction of the tax-free threshold. Opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis revealed... the cancellation of the lowering of the tax-free threshold for incomes, which is due to kick in from January... could also reach an agreement with the country’s lenders to keep the tax-free threshold where
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With tax-free threshold set for change, income declarations underline need for rethink
EconomyProgramme-free threshold with the aim of securing additional revenues of 1 percent of GDP (1.8 billion euros) as of 2019. The targeted savings mean that the tax-free threshold should be reduced close to 5,900... percent), but this would require the tax-free threshold to drop to around 5,000 euros to yield the same
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In latest election pledge, Tsipras vows to ditch lower tax-free threshold
PoliticsGreek Politics-free threshold for incomes next year if he becomes prime minister again. In the latest of his televised evening interviews, the SYRIZA leader committed for the first time not to reduce the threshold... the end of the year. “The tax-free threshold will not be reduced as long as SYRIZA is the government,” he
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