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After calm summer, hectic September lies ahead for Greek government
EconomyProgrammereforms and bank governance. On the privatisation front, the government has to agree.... This board then has to select the Board of Directors, while the new fund should be fully operational... minister. In addition, the government has to transfer to the new fund a second group of state-owned
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Apart from bailout review, plenty to keep Tsipras busy in autumn
PoliticsGreek Politicslinks. This effort has been led by French President Francois Hollande and Italian Prime Minister..., the SYRIZA leader has a lot of ground to make up after infuriating so many of his European colleagues last... review is due to have begun by October, the prime minister also has to negotiate SYRIZA’s congress
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Newsletter 86 - 02/09/2016
on the economic recovery next year, but there has been much speculation about what pledges the premier might... a total of almost 250 million euros, which was way in excess of what was widely expected. The process has... on the matter. Brussels has asked the Greek government to ensure that claims the 2009 deficit figure
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Effort to unite PASOK and Potami seems to have hit a wall
PoliticsGreek Politicsreportedly wants the campaign to last three months. The Potami leader has also proposed that the two parties cease to exist as separate political entities once the new leader has been elected, while Gennimata has indicated that she wants there to be some kind of transition process leading to unification
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Mitsotakis pledges tax cuts, looks for party balance and broad appeal
PoliticsGreek PoliticsNew Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis has pledged to reduce the ENFIA property level by 30 percent in his first two years of governing, suggesting that he has identified tax cuts as the main tool... the ENFIA tax as the prime example given that it has been a very unpopular levy, particularly
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Government also finds itself at odds with Church of Greece
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe Greek government has found itself in an unexpected war of words with the Church of Greece over... Orthodoxy and its traditions. This has upset the Church of Greece, which is trying to block the reforms... to the military dictatorship between 1967 and 1974, an issue that has long been a bone of contention in Greek
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Greece worst-performer in EU 28 for social justice
Societyconsecutive year, a recent study by the Bertelsmann Foundation has found. In its Social Justice Index..., the report found that the gap between Greece and Bulgaria and Romania “has actually widened again, since..., while Greece is standing still”. The report notes that “the crisis has had a devastating effect
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Greece and lenders trap themselves over labour reforms
Agorathat New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis has so far presented to Greek voters. Also on the fiscal... agreeing to it with the creditors. Greece has implemented a raft of liberalisation measures since... should follow a subsidiarity principle. In his comments to MEPs, Moscovici said that it has been
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Foreign minister opens up about EU concerns
PoliticsForeign PolicySYRIZA has made no secret of its desire to change Greece’s approach towards the European Union when... that SYRIZA’s eurosceptic approach has been watered down. Kotzias appears more constructive during... of “crisis in handling crises.” He suggested that the EU has given in to the markets and is lacking
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Study finds contrasting trends in Greek health during crisis
SocietyThe impact of the economic crisis in Greece on health has been more nuanced than previous reports suggested, research conducted by a team of British and Greek scientists has found. The research... mortality have worsened during the crisis. There has also been a significant increase in mental illness
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