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Opposition takes aim at justice minister over offshore holdings amendment
PoliticsGreek Politicsof politicians and certain classes of senior officials from holding shares in jurisdictions which could... report into the accident spilled into Parliament. The government has been claiming victory after... leader Nikos Androulakis also slammed the celebratory tone which the government has adopted over
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Government stalls possible bond issue, clashes again with judiciary
PoliticsGreek PoliticsMonetary Fund is holding its executive board meeting on June 20, rather than June 27 as was initially.... This would allow the current government to claim that it has set Greece on a path of lower..., that the SYRIZA-led coalition is making a forced return to the markets at an unattractive rate. Stelios
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Cost of petty corruption in Greece has halved during crisis
SocietyInternational has found. Researchers found that 15 percent fewer cases of this type of graft were... hospitals. Graft in the private sector has been dipping over the last few years but here also hospitals top
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Tsipras denies Grexit plan, has work to do to keep Greece in euro
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Alexis Tsipras insisted in the European Parliament on Wednesday that he has no plan to take Greece out of the euro and that his government will submit reform proposals to lenders... has left him politically dominant within Greece and New Democracy, To Potami and PASOK are left
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Search for solutions, not scapegoats in EU's refugee crisis
AgoraFor some years now, and especially over the last 12 months, Greece has acted as Europe’s lifeguard...) and the political impact this is having throughout the EU has triggered paroxysms that narrow... controls in the Schengen area) to stem the flow of people to Europe, Greece has been the fall guy, taking
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Newsletter 298 - 28/05/2021
search for identity SYRIZA is continuing its search for a new role, which it has failed to find since its... linked to the Covid pandemic could deliver the kind of political blow it has largely avoided... to survive once this extra liquidity is not available. This issue has also been the subject of much
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Newsletter 435 - 04/10/2024
and SYRIZA continued to be consumed by its own internal battle for the party presidency. All has... settle nerves in the ND camp. The threat from such events has not disappeared despite the weather... party together as it marks 50 years since it was founded – five decades during which it has been
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Newsletter 456 - 21/03/2025
in court of any wrongdoing. Doxiadis, a venture capitalist who has taken on the role of a public... is reportedly focussing on bringing down the income tax rate for those earning 20,000 and 50,000 euros... - holding 14 of the 27 seats on the panel – voted to accept his request on Thursday. The opposition
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Marked drop of 50 bps in new time deposit rate in July amid capital controls
EconomyMacroeconomytime deposit rate recorded a marked drop by 50 basis points (bps) to 1.31 percent in July, according..., the Greek time deposit rate remains more than 60 bps above the eurozone average of 0.68 percent...) and France (1.33 percent). Overall, the weighted average rate on new deposits fell by more than 30
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Stable rate in time deposits, corporate loan rates pick up in July
EconomyMacroeconomyGreek households’ new time deposit rate was kept stable at 0.86 percent in July, Bank of Greece (BoG) data showed on Thursday. This rate is hovering around 0.85 to 0.88 percent in the last five... of 10-20 bps in the new time deposit rate by the end of the year. The headline figure in Greece stands
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