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Parties' competing tax pledges come up against challenging reality
EconomyFeaturessee half their salary raise taken back in tax. Lowering the tax-free threshold could also wipe out... are understandably keen to avoid being seen taking back with one hand what they have just handed out... of “positive measures” which Tsipras announced and Mitsotakis promised not to roll back, it will take
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Newsletter 213 -07/01/2019
that as prime minister Mitsotakis would seek to use part of these funds to back an NPL-reduction plan... percent in 2021, mostly on the back of private consumption, business investment and exports. Private... the fact that a high proportion of cured loans that have been restructured fall back into arrears, just
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The Parable of the Populists and the Contemplatives
Agoracan take from the earth but we cannot put it back or increase or make a replacement for it as we used... a peptic upsurge and bites back. And so it happens that the town discovers that slowly but surely... Journey Back to Debt Sustainability" published in 2020. Jens Bastian is senior policy advisor at ELIAMEP
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Cyprus “success” preludes something bigger in European banking
Agorasure effect: To make you sweat and scale down your accounts to less than 100K, then run to find the most secure refuge possible for your (depreciating) savings. At first you will go for the core... your deposits, at least not all of them. It is only prodding you to move your savings
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UnLuCky for some: Another painful lesson from the euro crisis
Agorathe trade balance. Since there is no one to finance your excess imports you keep turning the screw until it is your exports that finance your imports and your trade is balanced. Disposable incomes were... your net foreign liability position has not improved at all this might act as a deterrent to inflows
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Adoptions fall by 18.5 pct in 2016 as recent decline continues
Societyare hard for authorities to track and verify. A prominent case in 2013 shed light on the problem, when
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Catering and entertainment businesses chafe at vaccination status rules
PoliticsGreek Politicscomplain that the measures place an unfair burden on businesses by asking them to verify customers
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Greece sees lower primary surplus at 0.3 pct for 2014, fiscal challenges remain
EconomyProgrammeback under EAP. The three adjustments are almost identical to those presented in the 2015 budget... for the implementation of this year’s fiscal consolidation. Back in November, the troika had insisted on a fiscal gap... billion on an accrual basis (580 million cashed in in 2014 and 1.84 billion national accounting adjustment
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Greece's taxing challenges
Agoraemployees and many liberal professionals; the latter taking accounting liberties in order to avoid paying due taxes. They are essentially freeriding on the back of their overburdened compatriots... to achieve an economic recovery after seven years of recession on the back of such excessive
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Newsletter 123 - 16/06/2017
and inclusion in the ECB’s QE programme is still some way off. The government had planned to build a path back... the beginning of the year, largely on the back of a drop in the ECB funding by 6.73 billion, as Greek banks... in legal and accounting activities (+9.6 percent), computer programming and consultancy as well
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