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Greece reignites energy alliance talks with Israel and Cyprus amid US interest
PoliticsForeign Policythe Vertical Corridor towards Ukraine and the India-Middle East-Europe Corridor (IMEC), both US... Konstantinos Kompos was in India and held constructive talks with his counterpart, Dr Subrahmanyam... with India. The ministers are also expected to discuss the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI), a long
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Spree of media deals puts spotlight back on ownership issues
Societythe monopoly on print press distribution, and was already at an advanced stage of licensing a new TV channel, ONE TV, when he purchased MEGA. The MEGA deal follows Marinakis’s bid to purchase... platform Nova TV, which owns the broadcast rights for most of the Greek football SuperLeague
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Here's why Greece's fiscal difficulties will dominate the agenda
EconomyProgrammelower income tax and VAT revenues. The Finance Ministry (MoF) attributed the bulk of the slippage... in the first half of the year, according to the 2015 budget, shows revenues in March will be lower than... will pay their full principal amount as early as the end of March. The instalment scheme has
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Parties' competing tax pledges come up against challenging reality
EconomyFeatures, and farming being more prominent at the lower end. Households dependent on wage earners filed 35 percent... rise in taxes due from the higher income brackets. However, the top 5 percent of households pay just... Democracy have now pledged to overturn the legislation so as not to lower the tax-free threshold
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PM goes big on minimum wage increase, but opposition unmoved
PoliticsGreek Politicsgrowth. The raise will take gross minimum pay from 663 euros to 713 euros per month an increase of 50... of the economy, but that after several interventions to lower costs for employers it was now workers’ turn to benefit from what he described as “a decision of responsibility and solidarity”. The minimum pay rise
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Budget primary surplus to Sept surges to 5.44 bln on solid tax revenues
EconomyMacroeconomyexecution bulletin published on Monday. The headline figure is marginally lower than the 5.45 billion... target of 1.91 billion euros by 3.53 billion mostly due to lower primary expenditure (by 1.9 billion... to pay their ENFIA via credit card. This means that state collected the whole amount upfront, while
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Tsipras freshens up cabinet, looking for balance with party and lenders
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor the media. Although the move reflects the controversy that surrounded the failed TV permits tender... paid the price for the drawn-out legal battle over the TV licences and the growing tension... Ministry to the Interior Ministry. Skourletis had recently been openly opposed to the government’s
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Athens and lenders stay mum on agreement, domestic reaction awaited
PoliticsGreek Politicsto be pre-approved by the Labour Ministry. In an interview with Star TV on Wednesday, government... Skai TV that he believes it is wrong to agree to sell PPC units under tight schedule imposed.... Skourletis Interior Minister Panos Skourletis toned down on Wednesday his reaction to the potential sale
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Name issue and auction targets make waves in domestic politics
PoliticsGreek Politicsthis matter. Speaking to ANT-1 TV on Wednesday, Interior Minister Panos Skourletis said that Kammenos’s... on Tuesday to Skai TV, shadow defence minister Vassilis Kikilias suggested that New Democracy would
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Outright majority in sight for ND as campaign takes detour through recent past
PoliticsGreek Politicswhen he left,” the SYRIZA leader told Open TV, adding that Karamanlis was responsible for waste... benches in Parliament next to KINAL. Opinion poll A new opinion poll by Pulse for Skai TV is the latest... and electing the former conservative interior minister Prokopis Pavlopoulos as president of the republic
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