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ND looks to asylum bill, strong rhetoric to ease pressure from migration flows
PoliticsGreek Politicsin the flow, with reports suggesting more than 500 people arrived in dinghies on Lesvos since Tuesday... that Greece is facing a migration, rather than refugee, crisis and that most of the arrivals... the EU-Turkey agreement came into force in 2016, less than 2,000 people have been returned by Greece
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Newsletter 226 -01/11/2019
than 20 percent of total debt, or less than 40 percent of GDP. The budget primary balance recorded... billion euros. On an aggregate basis, gross revenues came to 42.04 billion euros, higher than
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Energy bill also unveiled as legislative activity intensifies
PoliticsGreek Politicsreaction to the draft law, arguing that big business and individuals earning more than 100,000 euros per year, in other words less than 1 percent of taxpayers, would be the beneficiaries of the government’s... would be more than eaten up by rises in electricity prices, the large increase in the need
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Overdue social security contributions rise to 35.54 bln in Q3, new debtors rise
EconomyMacroeconomy) revealed. Until the end of 2016, KEAO was fed by overdue contributions of more than 5,000 euros from... amounts. A breakdown of amounts owed showed that 79 percent of debtors owe less than 15,000 euros each... than the amount for 2016 by 28.4 percent. For 2018, total revenue collection came to 1.37 billion
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Budget primary surplus at 5.76 bln in October as expenditure drops
EconomyMacroeconomymillion euros. On an aggregate basis, gross revenues came to 47.32 billion euros, higher than the target... billion euros in the aggregate period, higher than their target by 358 million euros. Compared to the same..., and standing 5.6 percent higher than for the same time last year. Expenditure Primary expenditure came
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Budget for 2020 eyes faster growth while balancing tax cuts with more revenues
EconomyMacroeconomyversion of early October. The economic assumptions underpinning the budget remain more ambitious than.... Public spending growth will more than halve compared to this year at 0.6 percent, while exports... billion euros, more than 1 percent of GDP. Public debt will remain broadly unchanged at 329.5
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Constitution tweaked, consensus sought for Greek diaspora vote and next president
PoliticsGreek Politicsthan 500,000 Greeks with voting rights can be tabled in Parliament. The most popular amendment (274... appoint technocrats to run Greece’s public hospitals rather than hand out the positions as political... media has been more subdued than when the leftists were in power.
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Amid hiring controversy, ND focusses on new round of tax cuts in latest bill
PoliticsGreek Politicscontroversy. The bill was tabled late on Tuesday after more than a dozen changes were made to the draft.... One-off debts, such as inheritance tax, can be paid off in up to 48 instalments, rather than... ride in the media than SYRIZA did, some of the lustre of the victory at the polls in July is wearing
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Unemployment edges down to 16.8 pct in September
EconomyMacroeconomyErgani database for November showed that there were 30,559 more firings than hirings. Compared to the same month last year, there were 2,690 fewer people fired than hired. Total hirings came... hirings than departures. Ergani noted that this represented the second highest employment balance
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Unemployment edges down to 16.6 pct in October
EconomyMacroeconomydatabase for November showed that there were 30,559 more firings than hirings. Compared to the same month last year, there were 2,690 fewer people fired than hired. Total hirings came to 208,583 versus... as voluntary departures. In the aggregate period, the employment balance showed 131,310 more hirings than
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