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Tsipras sticks to pre-election pledges as eurozone negotiations loom
PoliticsGreek Politicsmonthly pension for retirees earning less than 700 euros per month. · Not raising retirement ages or cutting basic and auxiliary pensions. · Raising minimum wage back to 751 euros gradually by 2016...) and replacement with levy on large properties. · Raising of tax-free threshold on income from 5,000
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Coalition's proposal for PR electoral system unlikely to clinch supermajority
PoliticsGreek Politicstwo, governing partners. Also, cutting the voting age by one year would allow about 100,000 more... to implement leftist policies in other areas. Two recent opinion polls showed SYRIZA trailing New Democracy
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Greece takes first round against Covid-19 but fight continues
Agoralimitations. The decision was timely, rather than precarious or cutting-edge, and it was dictated... of the country’s media. The opposition was blindsided and trailing in the polls, and the government’s
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For Greek families, electricity goes from given to must for survival
Society, the Public Power Corporation (PPC) revealed that it was cutting off electricity to about 30,000 homes... attached an emergency property tax to electricity bills and said anyone failing to pay it would lose
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Why doesn't Tsipras just cut defence spending?
Agora, right-wing Antonis Samaras, faced strong criticism after cutting the wages of military personnel..., for instance, of a comprehensive defence review over the last five years has been a serious failing
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Tsipras confounds expectations, creates new doubts by reviving coalition
PoliticsGreek Politicspotentially complex talks with parties he has not worked with before, also cutting down on the time... within SYRIZA due to some members feeling that Tsipras and a small group of advisers are failing
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Newsletter 47 - 16/10/2015
adjustment should come from cutting public spending, mainly through reducing the size of the state sector... Panos Kammenos failing to include him in the cabinet rather than any particular ideological or political
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Mitsotakis aims to prove credentials by tackling party's finances
PoliticsGreek Politicsin the cost-cutting exercise was taking the decision to move the party from its large headquarters... of the parliamentary group to chastise some of his lawmakers for failing to attend debates and his
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Refugee returns to resume despite concerns over rights and conditions
Societyrecently that it would be cutting emergency funding to Greece in a move that was widely condemned..., Human Rights Watch criticised Greek asylum authorities for failing to properly care for unaccompanied
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EU elections in Greece: Applying a different scale of values
Agorapercent over two years, scrapping the trade tax for the self-employed, cutting the VAT rate... populists either failing to make the advances that many feared/predicted or suffering the wear-and-tear
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