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Newsletter 83 - 22/07/2016
Mitsotakis has said he will try to prevent it ever applying by submitting a new proposal... of the military and public administration that followed, has injected fresh uncertainty into the two.... Athens has given no indication that it is willing to grant asylum to the eight but wants to ensure
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Since 2010, declared income has plummeted but tax due has risen
EconomyFeaturesin the number of taxpayers by 9 percent to 6.19 million in 2015, the declared income has fallen by 23.3 percent, while the tax due amount has increased by 10 percent over this period to 7.92 billion in 2015... euros in 2015. The number of taxpayers declaring an annual income between 20 and 50,000 euros has
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This is where the last few days have left Greece and lenders
AgoraIt has usually been the case during the last seven years that when a Greek government is nearing... that the era of austerity has come to an end, claims that the International Monetary Fund has abandoned its long-held positions and that the coalition has signed up to even higher primary surplus targets. Quite
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Newsletter 85 - 05/08/2016
In a non-paper issued on Wednesday, the Finance Ministry clarified that budget revenues had beaten... The August lull may be in full swing but Greek politics has still been ebbing and flowing this week.... The week has ended with the refugee crisis becoming a dominant theme again. Although there has not been
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Newsletter 292 - 09/04/2021
administration’s handling of the pandemic and the array of problems it has created. This significant erosion of faith in ND’s abilities has also stoked speculation about whether Mitsotakis will abandon... insisted that he has no plans to go to the polls early. He stated his confidence that, despite the wear
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Newsletter 431 - 12/07/2024
picked the leftist opposition. Social democrats PASOK are narrowly beaten into third place with 11.1.... At the same time, however, the prime minister felt pressed to defend one recent reform which has been... has sparked criticism for allowing employers to override collective employment contracts, enabling
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From the National Energy and Climate Plan to COP26: What has Greek climate policy learned?
SocietyKyriakos Mitsotakis, address to UN COP26 summit, Glasgow, 1 November 2021. A lot has happened... a few months later. What - if anything - has been learned from recent developments as Greece moves... the plan. The Covid-19 pandemic, while forcing a temporary change in focus, has had a silver lining
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Home testing starts as govt aims to break free from pandemic's grip
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government has started the week by focussing on what it hopes will be an imminent de-escalation... impact to be known, the government has already indicated that self-testing will be extended... of the vaccine programme has picked up in comparison to last month. As of Friday, around 500,000 jabs
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Has SYRIZA's moment gone?
Agoradebate about extremism without finding a way to rise above the so-called “strategy of tension.” It has... of years Tsipras has shown considerable skill in appealing to voters that are not part of the party’s traditional support base. He has also been prepared to bring SYRIZA out of its introspective
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Newsletter 367 - 27/01/2023
Security and Privacy (ADAE) chief Christos Rammos, the ex-judge who has been overseeing an independent... attempt by SYRIZA to bring the surveillance issue to the attention of the public which has so far remained aloof. To date, most of the coverage of the surveillance affair has been limited to small
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