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Newsletter 207 -24/05/2019
of EKAS benefit for low income pensioners. In a speech in Thessaloniki on Thursday, he labelled New
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EU elections in Greece: Applying a different scale of values
Agorais reducing taxes and bringing back EKAS [benefit for low-income pensioners],” he said. Commenting
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Tsipras to get election campaign underway as parties target middle class voters
PoliticsGreek Politicsto increase the minimum wage again over the next four years. There are also plans for the EKAS benefit
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Budget marks return of trust, argues Mitsotakis
PoliticsGreek Politicsby explaining how they would fund their pledges. One example he gave was the return of the EKAS
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PM intervenes on bank charges as budget attracts extra support
PoliticsGreek Politicsretirees who would have been in line to receive the low-income stipend known as EKAS, which was strapped
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Newsletter 16 - 20/02/2015
in his cabinet, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras chose former New Democracy Interior Minister Prokopis... government, with Pavlopoulos as Interior Minister, issued a presidential decree that allowed fixed-term
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Approach to protests, policing poses a new quandary for government
PoliticsGreek Politicsportfolio from the Interior Ministry to the Justice Ministry amid concerns that Panousis and Interior Minister Nikos Voutsis did not see eye to eye. It was notable that Justice Minister Nikos
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Will Tsipras move to centre stage to secure deal with lenders?
PoliticsGreek Politicswithin the government, even leading to thoughts of removing Panousis’s portfolio from the Interior.... Interior Minister Nikos Voutsis and Alternate Minister for European Affairs Nikos Hountis
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Launch of new movement highlights fragmentation of Greek centre-left
PoliticsGreek PoliticsFormer Interior Minister Yiannis Ragoussis is set to launch a new centre-left movement on Wednesday, highlighting the fragmentation in this part of the Greek political spectrum. With PASOK... to liberalise the taxi sector while he was interior, and then transport, minister between 2009 and 2011. He
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Bond issue decision expected as clock ticks down
PoliticsGreek Politicsin September 2015, when then-Interior Minister Panayiotis Kouroublis asked local authorities to list... Accounting Office because of fiscal concerns. It has been revived under the current Interior Minister Panos
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