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Mitsotakis pledges more benefits, new faces as election build-up intensifies
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe last few months at the party’s congress over the weekend as he goes in search of a new boost... is aimed at countering the government’s so-called “positive measures,” including the 710-million-euro social dividend that is being paid out from this year’s excess surplus. As of Friday, total of 675
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Tsipras seen clinching 151 votes as doubts surface about name deal
PoliticsGreek Politicsshocks, Tsipras has clinched the 151 votes he was targeting ahead of Wednesday’s ballot. Earlier... in favour of Tsipras’s administration, it seems the prime minister can count on the backing of six... probably could have been achieved by relying just on his party’s own 145 MPs. However, he said
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FDI, rather than tax cuts, holds key to stronger growth rates - study
EconomyFeaturesto Greece’s future long-term economic growth found that raising foreign direct investment (FDI... variables into their econometric model to analyse what Greece’s economy really needs for future growth... benefits identified were that it would reduce labour costs, which lowers prices, improves Greece’s
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Second post-MoU review hinges on NPL plan and protection for primary residences
EconomyProgrammeabout the government’s decision to increase the minimum wage by 11 percent last week, which was more.... A report in Kathimerini also suggested that there was disquiet on the lenders’ side about Athens’s... in the pipeline. The Council of State, Greece’s highest administrative court is currently pondering
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Speculation about May elections revived by SYRIZA officials' comments
PoliticsGreek Politicsbe on another date [apart from the end of the government’s four-year term], by which I mean May.” His comment... to deliver its findings in the coming days. The minister said it is the government’s intention to submit... about when the next elections will be held, also criticised the government’s plan for adjusting
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Bad news
Agorafor a long time, no matter how sterling a news organization’s standards…” Perhaps the emergence of machine... that the 3.5 percent of GDP primary surplus target that his government has agreed with Greece’s creditors... that they are in power of course,” he responded. Naturally, Tsakalotos’s view on the outcome
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Foreclosure bill undergoing final adjustments to satisfy creditors
EconomyProgrammein Parliament and voted on this week, ahead of Monday’s Eurogroup. Officials from the central bank, the Hellenic Financial Stability Fund (HFSF) and executives from the country’s main banks held talks... is that the applicant’s total savings should be no more than 50 percent of the unpaid loan, which means
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Going for Growth: What next for Greece's economy and banks?
Agora, and businesses in the country. Growth and Internationalisation: The Path Forward As an economy, Greece’s..., as disclosed by the OECD[11], and this is one the clearest problems for the country, it’s economy... in. As Tom Bergin’s Reuters article The Greek Shipping Myth[13] establishes, the shipping sector
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Tsipras hammers out dividing lines, trumpets battle with 'elite'
PoliticsGreek Politicsof SYRIZA’s parliamentary group on Wednesday, a day before MPs were due to hold a second vote on which... defeat, especially after New Democracy’s vice president Adonis Georgiadis suggested that his party... not be trusted. Reports suggest Georgiadis’s comment was not well-received within New Democracy’s ranks. Tsipras
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After local elections in Turkey, Athens hopes recent tension with Ankara will ease
PoliticsForeign Policy. But there are elements in Turkey’s current political and economic situation that do not leave any room for high...; secondly the deterioration of US–Turkish relations, especially due to Ankara’s intention to purchase the S-400 Russian air defence system; thirdly Turkey’s exclusion from the energy developments
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