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Gaza continues to expose political fault lines as PM hopes peace deal brings less scrutiny
PoliticsGreek Politicstook place in Parliament on Thursday, involving Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis, who has been... cooperation - has been distinctly reluctant to be critical of Israel’s actions in Gaza. Thursday’s exchange... stressing geopolitical pragmatism, the debate is far from settled. Since 2019, Athens has invested heavily
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Newsletter 251 -22/05/2020
than 9 in 10 respondents were in favour of strict health checks on travellers, a measure... Democracy leading SYRIZA by 19.7 percent, confirming previous findings that the governing party has... surcharges. The report acknowledges that the pandemic has altered the social economic reality
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Tsipras poised for concessions with lenders, sets snap polls aside
PoliticsGreek Politicswhat these measures might be but there has been much speculation in recent days about... with its lenders and conclude the second review, the government has said it is willing to extend..., it seems that the government has in mind an extension of the fiscal brake so it applies after the end
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Athens and lenders yet to agree on how to drop pension cuts without creating fiscal gap
EconomyMacroeconomy. The coalition has also pledged 765 million euros of “positive” measures, mostly in the form of tax reductions... that Greece has the fiscal space to implement all of the measures it wants, to not impose the pension... last week that Brussels has approved Greece’s draft budget and that the pension cuts will be scrapped
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The agenda of the first programme review shapes up with thorny issues
EconomyProgrammethat the remaining 0.4 percent or 700 million has to be covered by new measures. All indications... the measures required for the targeted fiscal consolidation. In addition, the government has committed..., the government has pledged in the third memorandum of understanding (MoU) for cost savings of around 1
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Tsipras sails through multi-bill vote, looks to disbursement and debt relief
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government breezed through the multi-bill vote on Sunday and has put the ball in the lenders... for Tsipras, who has now survived two very challenging votes in Parliament (including the recent ballot... on Saturday to deal with Kammenos’s concerns, before the Finance Ministry announced on Sunday that the measure
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Ahead of vote, Tsakalotos appeals to SYRIZA MPs with positive message
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government has made a last-minute bid to secure the votes of all 146 SYRIZA MPs in the upcoming... the government and the institutions, Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos has attempted to ensure... for personal incomes, which is scheduled to apply from 2020 unless Greece misses its fiscal targets and it has
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Coalition hails multi-bill as start of clean break, opposition sees more of the same
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreeks (ANEL) are promoting the multi-bill as the last package of legislation Greece’s Parliament has... the stage once the fourth review has been completed and an agreement has been reached... reductions and increases to welfare spending. The coalition has also not given up
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Tsipras set to unveil tax cuts as MPs prepare for confidence vote
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor the government to focus on all the so-called positive measures it has taken since Greece exited its... over benefits for disabled Greeks. New Democracy has for several months now identified the temperamental Polakis as a weak link in the government but Tsipras has stuck by him, even spending time
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Surprise handout announcement provokes storm of criticism from opposition
PoliticsGreek Politics90 million euros, this is the only measure that had been clearly signalled as a response to the added... of the challenge faced by households. He reminded Mitsotakis that the government has already had... has failed to mature politically in opposition. Polls The government’s change of heart on year-end
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