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Government courts backlash over squat raids, while opposition is absorbed in internal debate
PoliticsGreek Politicsgovernment’s willingness to implement the hard-line law and order agenda which was a mainstay of its... warrants have already been issued. Law and order agenda The police operations coincide with the formal... and order agenda. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis (who is also Bakoyannis’s uncle) promised to task
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Govt’s “zero tolerance” approach to violent protest provokes accusations of authoritarianism
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGovernment and opposition in Greece are once again facing off over law and order in universities... and order agenda Visible policing has been one of the hallmarks of the New Democracy government since... public order offences harsher. A key change involved easing police access to university campuses
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Greece needs to re-think natural gas policy, starting with demand
Agorathat demand needs to be managed much more robustly than previously thought possible or desirable in order... demand, and in pretty short order address the full 40 pct it has been importing from Russia, which..., in order to implement a rapid phase-out of coal-fired power generation – the so-called “de-lignitisation
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Newsletter 88 - 16/09/2016
. Nikolopoulou-Stournara denies any wrongdoing. Rather than the raid itself, it is the timing of the intervention... The single property tax (ENFIA) due in 2016 stands at 3.18 billion, 2.2 percent lower than last year’s figure, the General Secretariat of Public Revenues (GSPR) disclosed on Tuesday. More than 85 percent
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Tracing the decline of the middle class as parties vie for its votes
EconomyFeaturesDemocracy blames SYRIZA’s tax policies for “overburdening” hard-working middle-income earners in order...) households’ disposable income fell by more than a third between 2010-2016 and has shown only... portion of them will have ended up lower down the scale due to lower incomes rather than exiting
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BoG sees encouraging signs for Greek economy but warns on reforms
Economy, marginally lower than the official troika projection of 0.6 percent. The encouraging signals... positive in 2014 at 1 percent of GDP lower than its previous estimate of 2 percent. The key contributor... should be maintained and strengthened, according to the BoG, in order to eliminate uncertainties
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Newsletter 35 - 17/07/2015
, higher than the IMF’s estimate of 1.5 billion. Moreover, assuming the implementation of the fiscal... parliamentary group, which has crossed numerous “red lines” to support unpopular measures in order... on Tsipras to take this route rather than call snap elections. Nevertheless, even this option seems
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Bailout talks inch forward as Juncker comments complicate matters
PoliticsGreek Politicsexpects the surplus to be higher than the IMF’s projections, thereby strengthening the Greek... for 2015, which is substantially better than the 0.6 percent primary deficit that the IMF expects... now rather than when targets are missed), although he indicated the Commission would be willing
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Greek businesses under pressure due to late payments, survey shows
EconomyFeaturesterms in order to secure credit and maintain cashflows. On average, 71 percent of European businesses surveyed during the crisis said that they have accepted longer payment terms than they feel... the outbreak. Small businesses were more at risk than large businesses: 49 percent of small
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PM hopes for return to normality by summer, but vaccine progress remains slow
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe pandemic as public order issue rather than a public health issue”, while a spokesman for Communist Party... a slow start, the daily inoculation rate has more than doubled and is approaching 20,000 doses a day... be required by all European countries in order to bring the target within reach. At the current pace
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