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  1. Election speculation gathers steam while surveillance claims mount
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    , April 9. The Christmas weekend saw more details emerge around the alleged surveillance of the head... claims that he was among EYP’s surveillance targets, prompting the opposition to suggest... in investigating claims of state surveillance. Rammos has at least two more years remaining to serve

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  2. The enemy within

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    that lower income groups in Greece saw their tax burden increase by 337.7 percent from 2008 to 2012... groups saw their earnings from wages sink the most (by 16.4 to 34.6 percent) between 2008 and 2012, while the top income groups saw their income fall by much less (9.3 to 11.7 percent). What

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  3. Newsletter 288 - 12/03/2021

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    of the support measures through April. Among the measures planned by the Finance Ministry are a new... credits. A further round of subsidies for business loans dubbed “Bridge II” is likely to be among... to an index of 67.5 in Q3 2020. Old apartments, classified as over five years old, saw their prices increase

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  4. Europe missed an opportunity on banking union
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    their taxpayers’ money to save troubled lenders. Instead, this burden should be shared among all... euros. Until then, national resolution funds will be able to call on the funds of other member... lender will only oversee the eurozone’s 128 biggest banks. The remaining 6,000, including some 2,000

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  5. Topsy-turvy ride continues for Independent Greeks, as another MP goes

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    of the national council over the weekend. Their absence had been in protest at Kammenos’s refusal to call... surveys, Independent Greeks’s popularity among right-wing voters disaffected with New Democracy has... TV cameras on Monday night flanked by all the party’s remaining MPs to emphasise that he has

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  6. Newsletter 24 - 24/04/2015

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    of the 7.2 billion euros in remaining bailout funding. Athens hoped that there would be an agreement to call an emergency Eurogroup before the end of the month and that some funding would be released... the contract for the 67.7 percent stake will be awarded is already a contentious issue among the bidders

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  7. Tsipras lays down gauntlet to SYRIZA rebels, proposes September congress or members' vote
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    for a September congress or the Left Platform's call for the meeting to happen now. The prime minister... the central committee, where the faction has around 30 of the 201 members. They were among the 109... to Greece and that by remaining in power SYRIZA could tackle some of the country's chronic problems, which

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  8. Bailout talks, SYRIZA bickering continue - no definite end date for either
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    the central committee's decision last week to back Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in his call for the internal... out among ministers on Monday after Alternate Minister for Citizens' Protection Yiannis Panousis... doubts remaining about whether the various sides can reach an agreement on time. Government

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  9. The agenda of the first programme review shapes up with thorny issues
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    the government’s objective is the review conclusion no later than the end of February. Among the key... targets of the third MoU call for a primary surplus of 1.75 percent of GDP in 2017 and 3.5 percent... that the remaining 0.4 percent or 700 million has to be covered by new measures. All indications

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  10. Newsletter 114 - 07/04/2017

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    after his meeting with Tusk. According to the Greek side, Merkel placed the call and assured... figure by 47,800. The most marked decrease by almost 3 pp was recorded among youth (15–24 years old..., more than half (52.1 percent) between 2011 and 2015, while the remaining 10.9 percent relates to 2016

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