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Govt lines up strike legislation to follow brief pause after budget vote
PoliticsGreek PoliticsWednesday night’s budget vote is likely to wrap up the conservative government’s economic business... has largely consisted of New Democracy highlighting how it is living up to its election pledges... months and that the onus will be on the eurozone member states to come up with an answer to Greece’s
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Parties pick from energy policy menu as EU response opens up more options
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe coming weeks and months, perhaps leading up to the next election. The New Democracy government has... option opened up by the toolkit, have also been rejected, reportedly on the grounds that voluntary... fund on the model of the RRF, which Mitsotakis feels he can claim credit for proposing
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Newsletter 291 - 02/04/2021
as “a unique opportunity to radically change the Greek economic model, to guide the economy towards a more extrovert, competitive model, with a more effective, digitised state, a growth-friendly tax system... of financing private sector projects up to the tune of 50 pct, with at least 30 pct coming from bank lending
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Newsletter 475 - 12/09/2025
-tax brackets, income-tax relief for youths (under-25s paying zero up to €20,000; 25–30 year-olds.... The new tax scale redraws brackets from 9 percent on the first €10,000 up to 44 percent above €60,000... no tax on its first €10,000 of income. In framing these cuts, Mitsotakis argued they would leave up
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Newsletter 275 -27/11/2020
a ten-year plan for the transformation of the Greek economic model. The report includes radical changes to tax policy, social insurance and the education system in order to move to a more extrovert model... budget, mostly driven by a sharp drop in private consumption by 7.6 pct, investments by 14.3 pct
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PM forms panel to come up with strategy for use of EU recovery funds
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the national plans is October 15. Athens has access to up to 38 billion euros from the Multiannual... pandemic and stoking a new economic recovery, but also for transforming Greece’s economic model... announces the limited changes he wants to make to his ministerial line-up. Ahead of the meeting
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Parties get salty over cheese prices as cost of living debate heats up
PoliticsGreek PoliticsMitsotakis of telling lies in Parliament and then getting government officials to attempt a cover up... of who to support. Inflation in Greece was up by 3.1 pct in April, although food and drink prices rose... not be not in line with the government’s efforts to change the economy’s production model, which revolves
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Newsletter 297 - 21/05/2021
and transformation of the country’s economic model. It also acknowledges the need for a radical overhaul of the country’s productive model. However, the emphasis, as presented by Tsipras, is on more... or 7.4 percent. The number for the unemployed amounted to 714,809 in January. The drop in the number
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Record year for Greek tourism raises concerns about sustainability
EconomyFeaturesof visitors to make up for diminishing returns. This trend can be largely accounted for by the impact... a drop in arrivals. Mykonos airport received 1.7 percent fewer visitors, mainly due to a 5.9 percent drop in international passengers according to figures published by operator Fraport Greece
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Athens prepares to send draft budget to Brussels, lines up next tax measures
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government is hoping to wrap up on Monday the budget negotiations it has been having over the last few weeks with the European institutions so next year’s draft economic plan can be submitted.... New Democracy is said to be looking to replicate the Italian model for attracting wealthy non-doms
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