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Government struggles to shake off impact of wildfires
PoliticsGreek Politicsand opposition are preparing for two key set-piece events in the coming days, which they hope will revive... recently published a set of broad policy positions. The first round of the vote to elect a new SYRIZA... caused by the blaze in Evros has prompted the government to send a team of ministers, led by Interior
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Coalition poised to unveil pension reform proposals, hoping to avoid cuts
EconomyProgrammeThe Greek government appears to have finalised its proposals on pension reform and is set to submit... euros. This corresponds to 16.2 percent of GDP. The government has insisted it will not cut main... on the labour market. He claimed that in contrast “a cut in pensions would induce a recessionary shock
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Programme review talks continue, progress on tax, pensions and NPLs at a premium
EconomyProgrammeis (eventually) reduced by 100-200 euros” compared to the proposed 600-euro cut by the institutions. All.... The mission chiefs continue to favour a cut in supplementary pensions instead of the government proposal... entail cut of around 20 percent in supplementary pensions. According the latest official data (July
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Newsletter 108 - 24/02/2017
needed before there can be a staff level agreement. Greece will have to reduce the cut pension spending... and cut existing pensions when, until recently, it had promised it would not do so. The government’s.... The institutions had requested this threshold be set at 50,000 euros. For debt restructuring to be approved
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Preventative medicine, support for vulnerable form backbone of ND healthcare package
PoliticsGreek PoliticsWith the change of guard in Greece comes a new set of legislation for public healthcare, an area... of healthcare service provisions to develop synergies and cut costs. Care would be extended away from hospitals to cut congestion in the form of post-hospital home care, and holistic care would be provided
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Mitsotakis eyes Christmas handout, tries to rally support for diaspora vote proposal
PoliticsGreek Politicsthis with French President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to first cut the wealth tax, which Mitsotakis described as a “political mistake.” “We sent a clear signal that when we cut taxes, we do... a decade ago and SYRIZA did not act on the advice of a special committee it set up to examine the manner
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Government tries to contain fallout from breach of voters' data
PoliticsGreek Politicsgiven the ongoing investigation into a potential data breach at the Interior Ministry. The MEP... Data Protection Authority, the Interior Ministry and a public prosecutor. It was also announced on Friday that Interior Ministry general secretary Michalis Stavrianoudakis and New Democracy’s secretary
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Newsletter 46 - 09/10/2015
bailout programme by the end of November. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has set this date as his... their concerns with the party leadership. For Tsipras, it will also be his first attempt to set out... set of interventions in the product markets and business environment that were either included
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Greece gets tranche and looks ahead to next tasks, including pensions and NPLs
EconomyProgramme-tranche of 2 billion euros to Greece after the completion of the first set of milestones as well... on the second set of milestones that have to be implemented by mid-December to unlock the next sub-tranche... on to the second set of measures, while also called on the Greek authorities to tackle the remaining
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Newsletter 198 -15/03/2019
for the protection of primary residences. The European Commission set out a list of changes it felt should.... However, Euro2day’s report suggests that the institutions have asked for the cut-off date to be moved back.... According to Euro2day, the government is set to agree to the threshold for the maximum deposits
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