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Bailout talks, SYRIZA bickering continue - no definite end date for either
PoliticsGreek Politicsbridge loan following July's 7.2-billion-euro package to pay the ECB-held bond, pending an agreement... Athens to receive the funding it needs to cover the 3.2-billion-euro bond held by the European Central... the central committee's decision last week to back Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in his call for the internal
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Newsletter 46 - 09/10/2015
has the potential to pay dividends quickly. A return to the high levels of ESPA fund absorption... topics of discussion at a meeting of SYRIZA’s central committee this weekend. It will be the first... about some of the bailout policies and played a central role in the creation of the so-called
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Newsletter 52 - 20/11/2015
SSCs, the committee proposed introducing an individual notional account, with pay-as-you-go... month in October, when it eased by 2.01 billion euros. This means that since July central bank funding.... Stricter monitoring of borders could have a domino effect from central Europe downwards and cause many
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Newsletter 57 - 08/01/2016
for 2016 income. Similarly, the advance tax that farmers are required to pay on their income has... European Central Bank vice-president Lucas Papademos. Papademos, with his years of experience... the former central banker ticked many of the boxes, he carried little political weight within Greece
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Tsipras caught between social tension and lenders' pressure as talks begin
PoliticsGreek Politicsand retirement pay cuts as it will be hard for the conservative chief to come up with a plan that is not equally.... The mission chiefs from the International Monetary Fund, European Central Bank, European Commission... of stoppages and strikes. Adding to the drama, anarchists firebombed the central Athens home of State
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Athens waits for move from lenders to get review going
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe beginning of this year, professionals will have to pay social security contributions for income... in the European Central Bank’s QE programme remains a priority. SYRIZA’s central committee is due to meet
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In absence of bond issue, coalition ponders next moves
PoliticsGreek Politicson more debt. However, given that Greece is due to pay the European Central Bank four billion euros... at the party’s central committee gathering on Friday and Saturday. Kammenos Another cause for concern
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Finance Ministry waits for new property values as talk of bad bank gathers pace
EconomyProgrammeby the Finance Ministry, thereby causing a big jump in the ENFIA tax that those affected will have to pay... of the fourth review. Bad bank One issue that is taking an ever more central role in the discussion about...-performing loans. Bank of Greece governor Yannis Stournaras floated the idea at the central bank’s
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Newsletter 166 -15/06/2018
taxpayers (23 percent) would pay less property tax this year than in 2017. The vote on the multi-bill... in profits made by eurozone central banks on Greek bonds and will be given a final bailout tranche... percent), Epirus (-20 percent) and central Macedonia (12 percent). For the first three months from
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Eurogroup agrees on significant debt relief measures for Greece
EconomyProgrammeMechanism instalment could be used to pay off the IMF early and reduce Greece’s funding needs... to cover the maturities of IMF loans and Greek bonds held by the European Central Bank in 2020... the profits from Greek bonds (SMP and ANFA) held by eurozone central banks. The payments will be made
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