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Newsletter 12 - 23/01/2015
product and service portfolios, providing export insurance guarantees to Greek companies and improving... administration from the perspective of timely service delivery and as a facilitator for private... receipts from the EU. The services’ surplus rose by 128 million mainly due to soaring travel receipts
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Media pluralism in Greece at risk due to political links and concentration, study finds
Societyand/or control as regards internet service providers”. This has led to a “a high ownership... of political parties to decide. “Access to airtime on public service media (and commercial channels and services during election campaigns) for political parties is determined on the basis
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You've heard the Greek crisis myths, now here are some truths
Agoraindirect taxes and public service charges as a result of the fiscal consolidation effort Greece... inflation by 6.25 percentage points between 2010 and 2012. If public service tariffs are also... 2008 and most of it is attributed to a sharp decline in services, mostly in maritime transport due
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Newsletter 111 - 17/03/2017
for the services sector fell in the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2016, after a rebound in the previous three months, Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) figures revealed. Specifically, 11 out of the 14 service areas recorded a drop in Q4, with the most notable deterioration in information service (-29.6 percent
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Mandatory e-payments come into force as Greece seeks to boost card use further
EconomyFeaturesPayment Service Providers. Excluded from the directive to provide electronic payments are payment recipients who provide business-to-business goods or services. Both physical payment terminals... that their request to obtain such a device was rejected by the payment service provider, or those who
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Edgy atmosphere ahead of new protest over Macedonia name issue
PoliticsGreek PoliticsSamaras on Friday following a church service in Kalamata. Current conservative chief Kyriakos Mitsotakis was also at the same service and the two men are due to have dinner together on Friday. Mitsotakis... up of former members of the armed forces and security services has said that it will take on the task
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Government bolsters aid package as questions mount over deadly fires
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the service is a political appointee, Yiannis Kapakis, a retired senior fire brigade official... the service at a crucial time. SYRIZA subsequently issued a statement saying that it would not allow any... services. Defence Minister Panos Kammenos was the first government minister to survey the scene
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Coalition's attempt to defend handling of fatal blaze fails to stem criticism
PoliticsGreek Politicsand fire service as they explained to journalists that there is evidence which points to the fires... (and the emergency service chiefs it has appointed) from any responsibility for the death and destruction inflicted... the area extremely difficult. All four officials insisted that the emergency services and everyone
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Tax cuts set to lead package of post-MoU pledges by Tsipras
PoliticsGreek Politicswill include a cut in VAT on food service to 13 percent (costed at 350 million euros); reductions of up... in the food service sector and to lower other tourism-related taxes. Earlier this year, the opposition... of around 400 million euros in backpay to members of the armed forces and emergency services, an issue
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ND defends economic pledges as Kammenos repeats walkout threat
PoliticsGreek Politics) and maintain the limit on civil service hirings so that there have to be five departures for every.... He argued that in 2014, when the New Democracy-led coalition reduced VAT in the food service sector... billion euros of savings in the public sector without putting services at risk. Apart from the limit
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