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Strong showing in local elections for ND as it targets majority in national vote
PoliticsGreek Politicspolitics and is destined to win the general elections that are due to take place on July 7. The one concern... one seat), SYRIZA will gain 74 seats, KINAL 23, KKE 16, Golden Dawn 15, Greek Solution 12 seats..., which came third in the European Parliament elections on May 26 with 7.7 percent of the vote. One
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Newsletter 209 -07/06/2019
it into Parliament and New Democracy will get 151 seats (a clear majority by just one seat), SYRIZA... that will secure our ability to guarantee a strong government for the Greek people, one which can implement..., the lenders see a different fiscal performance in the future compared to the one Greece laid out
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Parties' competing tax pledges come up against challenging reality
EconomyFeaturesof a compulsory leg and a conditional one. Greece has committed in advance to cutting the personal... percent solidarity contribution for the very highest earners). According to one version of the plan... are understandably keen to avoid being seen taking back with one hand what they have just handed out
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Mitsotakis focuses on investment and taxes as ND launches election campaign
PoliticsGreek Politicsis also one that many investors from abroad look to as a sign of whether the business environment..., which will be one of the elements of the project. His comments regarding Elliniko were part of a wider... of the July 7 vote significantly. Turnout One of the potential dangers for New Democracy following its
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East Med concerns not slowing up election campaign as ND plans for office
PoliticsGreek Politicsone of the top places on the state list. Reports suggest that Kyriakos Mitsotakis is planning to change the structure of the government, which would be one of the first pieces of legislation brought... is one of several key reforms that Mitsotakis hopes to introduce quickly, within the first months
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Budget primary surplus at 918 mln in May, expenditures rise as 13th pension payment takes effect
EconomyMacroeconomymillion euros have been incorporated to 2019 figures to cover the one-off payments related to law 4575/2018 that were not completed in 2018 (in non-allocated expenditures). The MoF said that these one... expenditures of 329 million euros (mainly the one-off payments of law 4575/2018) and increased PIB
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Budget primary surplus confirmed at 916 mln in May on higher expenditure
EconomyMacroeconomybeen incorporated to 2019 figures to cover the one-off payments related to law 4575/2018 that were not completed in 2018 (in non-allocated expenditures). The MoF said that these one-off payments... million euros (mainly the one-off payments of law 4575/2018) and increased PIB expenditure by 372
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ND defends plans for three-pillar pension system as SYRIZA looks for weak spot
PoliticsGreek Politicsis similar to the one implemented under Chilean dictator Agustin Pinochet. Achtsioglou suggested... being transferred from the Supplementary Insurance and One-Off Benefits Fund (ETEAP) between 2020... measures that a New Democracy government would take. One is expanding the 120-instalment scheme
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The benefits of being Greek
Agora(where one parent is a Greek) would also get it. The crowd, judging from the TV footage loved the idea... problems with these otherwise crowd-pleasing announcements. The first is one of legality. Benefits... foreign. Therein lies the second problem. Even if one assumes (which is far from certain) that non-EU
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Tsipras responds to criticism of SYRIZA record in bid to rally support
PoliticsGreek Politicsmanifesto for the July 7 elections. This means that to some extent Tsipras achieved one of the goals he... a better deal than the one Wolfgang Schaeuble had tried to encourage, while keeping Greece... and that this is one of the main reasons that voters have turned from SYRIZA to New Democracy. He
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