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  1. Government moves to implement PM's pledges despite grumblings from interest groups
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    -employed. Pensioners, hospital doctors, the police federation, coastguards, seasonal fire crew... that the government planned to offer free afternoon surgeries to up to 30,000 patients using RRF funding

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  2. A breakdown of Tsipras's pledges on economic strategy in Thessaloniki
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    Economy

    is inevitable and will not be negotiated with the troika. The key interventions involve free... feeding for 300,000 poor families (756 million), free access to the public health care system for all...) adjusted by at least 30-35 percent to converge with current market prices. The tax-free threshold

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  3. Newsletter 111 - 17/03/2017

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    by 1.26 billion, mainly on the back of significantly lower than targeted primary expenditure (by 866.... The IMF has demanded a reduction in the tax-free threshold, aiming for additional revenues of 1 percent of GDP (1.8 billion) as of 2019. This would entail pushing the tax-free threshold down

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  4. EU and Gazprom: A legal compromise that will shape Europe's natural gas landscape?
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    Legal

    and Eastern European gas markets, which impeded the free flow of gas. In those objections... guaranteed that its pricing policy shall be driven by the principles of competition in a free market... such a scenario, the Commission underpins that its main objective is to safeguard the free flow of gas

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  5. Newsletter 14 - 06/02/2015

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    on luxurious lifestyle or consumption products and services. It has also pledged to restore the tax-free... meals for 300,000 poor families (756 million) and free access to the public healthcare system for all... is expected to pledge to strictly implement a series of structural reforms mainly related to fighting

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  6. Some progress in first round of talks but most second review issues remain unresolved
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    last Thursday. These mainly involve mass dismissals, the industrial action framework and collective... of the tax-free threshold to 5,000 euros (from 8,636 euros currently), as was suggested by the World Bank, to fund the GMI. The Greek side rejected this idea, stressing that the tax-free threshold was agreed

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  7. Newsletter 109 - 03/03/2017

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    will have to first legislate the fiscal measures (pension cuts and lower tax-free threshold... a reduction in the tax-free threshold and the implementation of pension cuts after 2018. Finance... in December retail sales mainly reflects a drop in department stores (-7 percent), food, beverages

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  8. Newsletter 227 -08/11/2019

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    in the tax-free threshold per child, the requirement that 30 percent of taxpayers’ income be spent electronically so they can qualify for the tax-free allowance and a new tax basic tax rate of 9 percent... percent YoY) to stand at 55.43 billion euros. This was driven mainly by a rise of 1.08 billion

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  9. What's behind Erdogan's decision to wave migrants through to Greece?
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    Agora

    Erdogan’s decision to give free passage to refugees and migrants? Was it events in Idlib province..., mainly from Syria, and now it fears another large-scale refugee influx from Idlib. Refugees from Syria... to free healthcare and education but poverty and the need to work coupled with language difficulties

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  10. Varoufakis adds to pressure on Tsipras ahead of lenders' return
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    and that involved hacking into the General Secretariat for Public Revenues online system to obtain the information

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