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Tsipras identifies first bills, domestic approval assured
PoliticsGreek Politics. The scheme will be a variation of the one already implemented by the previous government. Tsipras said... help him take in 2.5 billion euros by the summer. Protection of primary residences A third piece.... This had also been one of SYRIZA’s pre-election pledges. Tsipras also made reference to the gold mine
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Greek coalition braces for internal debate over agreement with lenders
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor the government as it is one of the few pre-election pledges that it will be able to keep. The prime... a more convincing commitment than his predecessor, Antonis Samaras, it could prove the missing piece of the jigsaw that will help him convince his MPs to approve the agreement. One potential problem
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How Greece sleepwalked off a cliff in 2009, in black and white
Agoratechnocratic in nature, you can almost sense the author’s agony when each excruciating piece of fiscal... in 2009 is encapsulated in one paragraph: “we are facing an unprecedented fiscal derailment, which... settling at 110 percent of GDP. Despite this information being available at the time, just one week
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Covid-19 data prolongs wait for re-opening amid new clash over policing
PoliticsGreek Politicsby videos of police officers using force against protestors and media, while one piece of footage... reforms, one concerning the council for hirings in the public sector and the other related
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Parties gear up for battle over pandemic media funding amid more warnings about press freedom
PoliticsGreek Politicsinformation has become available. A heated debate is expected on what has become a set piece of political... in the controversial auction for broadcast licenses in 2017. Both sides have at various times accused one another... that they will support an inquiry, making it a certainty that it will go ahead. Media freedom One subject
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Mitsotakis hopes tax bill tweaks will calm reactions in push to jump-start stalled reform agenda
PoliticsGreek Politicschanges. One piece of legislation that will not be discussed by the cabinet is the bill recognising... as a tour of the regions, targeting in particular the constituencies of recent defectors. One
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PM gears up for communications drive as PASOK marks 50 years
PoliticsGreek Politicswill deliver the annual set-piece speech at the Thessaloniki International Fair, to mark the opening... is considering announcing that social security contributions will be reduced by one percentage point next... about the party going forward. More than 40 pct (42.8) would like to see PASOK become one of the two
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Mitsotakis looks to last-minute announcements to top up lean TIF offerings
PoliticsGreek Politicsto be one of the leanest economic packages of his administration. As Mitsotakis puts the final touches to his set-piece address due to be delivered on Saturday, leaks to the media have sketched out a set... the government was fighting a vote of no-confidence sparked by a report in one of his newspapers
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Newsletter 452 - 21/02/2025
. The fluid landscape is captured by two new opinion polls, one for GPO that sees ND support falling to 24.8... since January, and PASOK at 13.3 pct, also losing roughly one point. PASOK has not been able to reduce... expectations on accounting handling of certain revenues. In another piece of positive fiscal data, the linking
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Macedonia and other Greek words
Agoraand is not the most conducive backdrop against which to solve what has been one of the country’s top... rally. One of the organisers called for FYROM to be annexed by Greece if it wants to keep the name... there. Ageing composer Mikis Theodorakis, an emblematic figure for Greece’s left and one of the first
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