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How Greece's political system failed to safeguard the largest investment in the country's history
Agora, investment that the Greek state has made in its history. HFSF’s key participation in the Greek...). HFSF has recently assessed 10.95 billion of this amount as being non-recoverable but nonetheless...) is with full voting rights. Overall, HFSF has contributed a total of 30.43 billion euros
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Greece's taxing challenges
Agora, the volume of unpaid taxes has increased. The latest available data for August 2016 recorded... to attracting investments. But it has become the default option of past and current governments... campaigned in favour of abolishing the tax, only to embrace it after taking office. VAT has been increased
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TV licencing becomes key political battleground after court verdict
PoliticsGreek Politics. What emerged was an attempt to turn the tables on New Democracy, which has been the most vociferous... that ESR has sole authority for regulating the broadcasting sector. The government now wants to elect... New Democracy really has qualms about institutional issues or if it just does not want the tender
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Parties reach consensus on broadcasting watchdog after coalition backs off
PoliticsGreek Politicsbe obliged to go along with the launching of a new licencing process. The coalition has argued..., said that this approach had been justified now that a cross-party agreement has been reached.... The balance on the board is evenly split between SYRIZA and New Democracy (each party has put
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Pieces of review puzzle yet to fall into place ahead of Eurogroup
EconomyProgrammeand the institutions, an agreement has not been clinched as the various sides have yet to converge on several key... of 0.2 percent of GDP in 2017 and 0.4 percent in GDP in 2018, the former has been eliminated, while the latter has been trimmed to 0.1 percent, according to the Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos
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New Democracy applies pressure as coalition prepares for tough December
PoliticsGreek PoliticsSeeing the government still struggling to conclude the second review, which has prompted speculation about whether this could lead to political developments, New Democracy has chosen to make... other administration to be formed by the current Parliament. There has not been much speculation
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The key elements of the draft agreement between Greece and lenders
EconomyProgrammefor 2017 and 2018 that is not quantified. Based on those targets, the government has to table the Medium... that the MTFS 2018-2021 has to be legislated by May 2017. In the context of tax policy reforms..., the government has also to pass legislation for the promotion and facilitation of electronic
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Eurogroup grants short-term debt relief but leaves Athens fretting over fiscal targets and IMF
EconomyProgramme. Dijsselbloem said that the ESM has been given a mandate to proceed with the implementation of its proposals. Instead, it seems that the process has now been linked to Greece’s funding needs and debt... the Greek government has been pushing for since the committee of wise men it appointed
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Another spin of the wheel for Greece
Agorapile from around 180 percent of GDP until the current programme has been completed in 2018. Small... to the outcome of negotiations between Athens and the institutions. Unemployment has also edged down, dropping... puts this down to better tax collection but it has been helped by the fact that – because
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Cat and mouse: Greece and Schaeuble
Agorathat the Fund would be present and Berlin has always been a believer of the technical capacity and economic... during the time the SYRIZA-Independent Greeks administration has been in power) has been consistently... of the structural impasse among the institutions,” the non-paper said. “The view that Europe has
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