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Government touts stricter migration controls in bid to win back right-wing support
PoliticsGreek Politicsto expand the designation of “safe countries” for the purpose of returning asylum applicants, starting... by the ministry to add Turkey to the list of “safe countries” was overturned by the Council of State
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Government under fire for failing to block Turkey from EU arms programme
PoliticsGreek Politics. The statements were taken to mean that Greece planned to use the SAFE negotiations to wrest... SAFE spending tool which provides a route for the participation of Turkey sparked immediate
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PM defends stance on Turkey and troubled electricity cable project
PoliticsForeign Policyto Turkey’s participation in EU’s SAFE defence procurement scheme. "If we want normalisation in Greek... belli exists, Greece will block Turkey's participation in the SAFE program as it has the right to do
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Cancelled leaders' meeting in US emphasises stalemate in Greek-Turkish relations
PoliticsForeign Policyare bracing themselves for is that Ankara will try to persuade Brussels to participate in SAFE, the new EU... in the SAFE programme it needs to withdraw its “casus belli” against Greece. On Sunday, during his
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Mitsotakis renews call for Turkey to scrap "casus belli" - opposition unimpressed
PoliticsGreek PoliticsNikos Androulakis lambasted Mitsotakis’s insistence on linking Turkey’s SAFE programme... is another mistake,” said the social democrat. “Turkey's participation in the SAFE program
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A closer look at Greece's revised proposals to lenders
EconomyProgrammefrom VAT reform of 680 million euros in 2015 and 1.36 billion in 2016. The latter is higher than... VAT rate from 6.5 to 6 percent and a reshuffling of products and services in the other two VAT rates of 13 and 23 percent. The new low VAT rate of 6 percent will cover only medicine, books and theatre
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No let up ahead in terms of fiscal demands for new Greek government
EconomyProgrammemilestones for the first programme review. In mid-July, the government legislated a VAT reform aiming to generate annual revenues of 1 percent of GDP. The basic VAT rate was set at 23 percent, a super... percent for basic food, energy, hotels and water. In addition, the 30 percent discount on VAT rates
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Newsletter 49 - 30/10/2015
residences from foreclosure, VAT on private education and pharmacy ownership. On the foreclosures front... pending issue relates to the imposition of 23 percent VAT on private education, which has created much..., but a 6-percent VAT rate would apply in private tuition schools, music and 13 percent in non-state schools
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Special tax structure would benefit hotels and jobs, bank argues
EconomyFeaturesin recent years, heavy taxation, especially VAT, remains a problem. In October 2015, a new rate of hotel VAT... of the VAT increase has been absorbed by the hotels in order to remain competitive, with just a small... services are subject to 13 percent VAT. Food and beverage plus other services sold to clients incur
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ND doubles down on tax as leaders target weak spots on electoral map
PoliticsGreek Politicsa reduction of VAT and other indirect taxes. The parties on the left, led by PASOK and SYRIZA, have... showed that the wealthy would benefit more from a VAT cut than lower earners, adding..., repeated by Skertsos, that VAT cuts will not get passed on to consumers is one that critics have used
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