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  1. Athens holds fire on debt schemes, prepares tax relief measures
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    The government is hoping in the coming days to wrap up draft legislation for the new payment schemes it wants to introduce for social security and tax debts. It also wants to put the finishing... contributions will offer relief to more than 1 million debtors with a total of 35 billion euros

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  2. Mitsotakis attempts to outmanoeuvre Tsipras over lower tax-free threshold
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    . By tabling the amendment, New Democracy aims to put the government on the spot, forcing Tsipras to either... once suggested that he would resign rather than lower the threshold. Neither party wants to be seen

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  3. Clash over judiciary persists as second round of local elections nears

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    to support or reject candidates put forward by SYRIZA. If ND wins the July 7 general elections... not had in its hands for more than two decades. The opposition party will also be aiming to win

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  4. Lenders set to highlight reform delays, leaving fiscal gap concerns until after elections
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    . The lenders are expected to suggest that the measures have put the 2019 target at risk. They have... for the unemployed, who suffered a deeper impact from the crisis than pensioners. The other element to the enhanced

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  5. Tsipras responds to criticism of SYRIZA record in bid to rally support

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    themes and put across his point of view on a range of issues. He defended his fraught negotiations... a better deal than the one Wolfgang Schaeuble had tried to encourage, while keeping Greece

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  6. Mitsotakis, ND officials rebuff suggestion of credit line
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    Minister Alexis Tsipras called on Mitsotakis to confirm or deny the proposal put forward by Papadimitriou... of the reasons that SYRIZA chose to go the route of a cash buffer rather than a credit line. Even

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  7. Hatzidakis announces strategy for partial privatisation of PPC

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    first in which a company was expected to reduce rather than build its customer base, while criticising... the minister pointed out that protections would be put in place for socially vulnerable groups unable

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  8. Preventative medicine, support for vulnerable form backbone of ND healthcare package
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    deliveries to their home rather than through visiting pharmacies. Kikilias then turned... measures would be put in place to also minimise the impact of the rebate and clawback mechanism

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  9. Finance Ministry faces balancing act as it starts to draft 2020 budget
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    be no higher than 2.5 percent of GDP. However, it has been reported the European Commission has reassessed... the elections. The payment of the so-called 13th pension put an extra 830 million euros in taxpayers

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  10. Fiscal issues top agenda as fourth post-MoU review gets underway

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    in the 2020 economic plan without the 3.5 percent of GDP primary surplus being put at risk... were to be higher than we assumed in our last debt sustainability analysis and interest rates

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