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Mitsotakis prepares to unveil economic plans, leave imprint ahead of elections
PoliticsGreek Politicsto power. The opposition chief has indicated, though, that he will employ a five-out-one-in rule, meaning that there will only be one civil servant hired for every five that leave. The government, meanwhile, is preparing to implement a one-out-one-in scheme from the start of next year after
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Another austerity fighter to bite the dust
Agoraas a one-size-fits-all austerity recipe imposed on countries receiving assistance (Ireland, Portugal... with this arrangement is that while one can sue their government in national courts, European institutions in European... jurisdiction however does not mean that one wins on the substance of claims as well. The court had
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Greek leaders' contrasting visions all a blur
Agorathat its economic programme requires, might be one of the questions directed at the opposition party... to one appointment for every five departures, use of public-private partnerships, e-governance... will move from the current system to the one proposed by Mitsotakis. Estonia, for instance, uses
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Pensions spending stable but early retirees burden system
EconomyMacroeconomyindividuals. From the total pension claimants, roughly 1.2 million receive one main pension, 783,491 receive one main and one supplementary pension and around 214,319 also receive an additional dividend.... The government is under pressure to carry out a further one percent of GDP cuts in 2019, but argues that it has
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SYRIZA states intention to continue as minority govt after ANEL leaves coalition
PoliticsGreek Politicsnecessitated by exceptional circumstances, which have now ceased to exist. One piece of legislation... this month. The broadening of the scheme is one of seven key changes the government wants to introduce.... The latest development has seen one of the three protected witnesses detained at Athens International
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Tsipras wins confidence vote, has to repeat trick in ballot on name deal
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAgreement. It had been expected that four of To Potami’s six MPs (Danellis being one of them) would... group. As a result, one of the options reportedly being considered is for To Potami to abstain or vote... of the centre-left alliance led by PASOK. It is not clear if Tsipras could then find at least one more
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Bad news
Agora, the local media was correct to lead with this story. There was only one problem: Tsakalotos never said... appearing online in Greece, one site after the other snapped it up, including the country’s largest... the title and the leading paragraphs, while one even suggested that the finance minister’s garbled
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Going for Growth: What next for Greece's economy and banks?
Agora, as disclosed by the OECD[11], and this is one the clearest problems for the country, it’s economy... management sectors, both underdeveloped at present when one considers that Greece presently has 52 asset... at marketing itself to tourists to visit/fall in love with it, and yet only have one decent sized
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Tsipras hammers out dividing lines, trumpets battle with 'elite'
PoliticsGreek Politicsgovernance, distilling the challenge faced by his party into a binary “Us vs Them” struggle. One... his vision for the EP vote through the prism of national politics. “On the one side is the revived.... “They will have to drink the bitter cups one by one,” added the prime minister. “First
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Athens holds fire on debt schemes, prepares tax relief measures
EconomyProgrammethat this will be one of the top items on the agenda when the creditors return to Athens on May 6 for the third... will be included in the scheme. Anyone wanting to pay off their debt in a one-off payment will have... to unveil before the May 26 European Parliament vote, one of the interventions being considered
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