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Athens aims for November agreement with lenders on pension cuts
EconomyProgrammeto be pressing for the discussions on next year’s pension cuts to be discussed officially, rather than... to raise the tax-free threshold from 2019, rather than 2020 as had been previously agreed. In private... for this subsidy to more than 100 million euros. Once the 2019 excess surplus has been agreed
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Tsipras halts bid to help smaller parties amid opposition criticism
PoliticsGreek Politicstheir privileges in Parliament if they are reduced to less than five elected MPs but other issues, such as TV air... in check rather than the other way around. The conservatives argued that the whole affair shows what...) on 6.1 percent. No other party is seen getting more than 3 percent, which is the threshold
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Mitsotakis appeals to centre-ground voters in bid to score decisive victory
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat if his party wins with a difference of more than 3.5 points (the gap SYRIZA had over ND in the 2014... polls suggest that more than 10 percent of voters are undecided. It is this audience that Mitsotakis... stronger support in this group than New Democracy. A Metron Analysis survey published in Sunday’s
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Pension bill to be unveiled as govt prepared for fifth post-MoU review
PoliticsGreek Politicsthis week and even though the upcoming review is set to be less stressful than previous ones... will have higher growth rates than initially thought. He added that the government has already made... imposed by the Katrougalos law in 2016 on anyone earning more than 1,300 euros per month from
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Greeks suspicious of Covid-19 origins but warming to vaccine, polls show
Societyknow while less than a third (30.6 percent) said they believed that the virus was not man made. More women than men were likely to believe that the virus was man made, as well as people over the age... by those who believe the coronavirus is more contagious than seasonal flu and also more lethal.
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Govt holds firm on no lockdown as health system teeters
PoliticsGreek Politicsthan any shortages. He went on to suggest that patients are only placed in ICU when their situation... then. In fact, they may be hoping that better-than-expected revenues at the end of this year could provide a little more fiscal space than previously thought. Opinion polls There continue to be signs from
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Newsletter 360 - 25/11/2022
preference because of the revelations, while only 12.7 said they would vote for someone other than... about migration. Fewer than half said they were concerned about the surveillance affair. Now... in the same period of last year. The oil deficit has more than doubled from last year to 8.89 billion euros
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PM bats away surveillance claims, looks to final pre-election handouts
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat the public trusts the government on defence and foreign policy issues more than in most other areas... of reporting on the surveillance issue, including publishing the names of more than 100 people... million euros, more than half of which is expected to have a carry-over effect. The government
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Government pledges more reforms, but economy set to prove deciding factor in 2025
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAfter suffering a more turbulent year than it expected, the government is aiming to regain its... is to further increase the total incomes that are declared by Greeks to more than 175 billion euros... in jobs like hospitality and retail earn wages that average less than 1,000 euros. It is clear
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Opposition unable to find basis for cooperation despite public support
PoliticsGreek Politicsbetween the social democrats and the parties to their left is more attractive than a collaboration... more than the 27.7 pct that favour a grand coalition with the ruling conservatives. For New Democracy voters, a coalition with PASOK is slightly more attractive (11.3 pct) than working with right-wing
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