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A closer look at planned laws for unpaid taxes and home foreclosures
EconomyMacroeconomyof total. Of this amount, the Finance Ministry aims to collect revenues of at least one-third or 3... of this category stand at 2.3 billion, making up just 3 percent of the total amount. In contrast, 326,000... billion (97 percent of the total). The upper bracket, including those who owe more than 1 million each
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Parties' competing tax pledges come up against challenging reality
EconomyFeaturesand their practical feasibility. Tax base A total 8,907,722 individuals declared income in the tax year 2017... an increase of 7 percent in the number of declarations over 2012. However, total taxable income fell... on an individual basis fell from 11,500 euros in 2012 to 9,015 in 2017, a drop of 22 percent. Total income tax
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Is the cost of Greece's public sector soaring again?
EconomyFeatures. The numbers, derived from the Labour Ministry’s Ergani database, record not the total number of public... that the costs have gone up every year since the end of 2014, by a total of 612 million euros, or 3.9 percent... that government and opposition are taking up positions to engage in a familiar ritual dance
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Greece's post-lockdown hubris
Agoraoutlets. A total of 20 million euros was spent on Covid-19 awareness campaigns to promote the “stay...-lockdown Greece is the almost total absence of visual cues reminding the public of health risks.... The failure to engage young people in safe behaviour has gradually dawned on policymakers
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SYRIZA fails to make any friends with new public sector wage grid
PoliticsGreek Politicsof a total of 567,000 civil servants receiving pay rises of between 15 and 80 euros, spread out over... that this was not the major intervention in public sector pay that SYRIZA had hoped to make “but it stops... pay increases. The government has failed to convince the public sector workers’ union ADEDY that its
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ECB survey shows enduring preference for cash payments in Greece
EconomyFeaturesor 54 percent of the total value of all payments. Cards were used in 19 percent of cases, or 39 percent of the total value paid at a POS. But this trend was not consistent, with significant... other country surveyed to pay electricity bills in cash (56 percent). Around 85 percent of Greeks
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Newsletter 19 - 13/03/2015
of the total Eurosystem funding passed the 100-billion-euro mark to reach 104.25 billion in February... 63 percent of the total, compared to just 6 percent in January and zero in May 2014. The absolute... expense for Greek banks on an annual basis. On top of that, Greek banks have to pay a fee of 1.4
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Greeks graduating after 2011 encountered limited opportunities, low pay
SocietyA report by the Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research (IOBE) has revealed that graduates in Greece after 2011 were twice as likely to be unemployed as graduates in the overall working-age population, and that the majority of them earned salari...
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PM briefs EU leaders on migration stance as Turkey tries to pin blame on Greece
PoliticsForeign Policythat Turkey has usually interpreted it. Libya There is a possibility of a ceasefire in Libya within the next.... But, according to government spokesman Steffen Seibert, Merkel told Haftar that the situation in Libya... that will take place in Libya's international waters aiming to preserve the UN arms embargo. The new
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Athens assessing lay of land as Cyprus talks approach and UK seeks new role
PoliticsForeign Policy-Cypriot sides have many issues to consider ahead of new Cyprus talks. Libya developments Greece... and the Prime Minister of Libya by the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum in Geneva. A statement released... and the Government of National Accord of Libya, in Tripoli. As a diplomat, Menfi served the regime
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