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  1. Athens sees faster pace of progress in review talks but no final deal yet
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    EconomyProgramme

    the reduction in the tax-free threshold and cuts in main pensions, while the government aims to lower... to reduce the tax-free threshold to around 6,000 euros from 8,636 euros, which will be effective from

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  2. Concerns over energy deregulation add to challenges Tsipras faces
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    , who suggested that it would be difficult for Parliament to approve a reduction in the tax-free... for the reduction in the tax-free ceiling. Kammenos also said that the government wants to conclude

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  3. Compromise proposal on table ahead of Friday's Eurogroup
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    EconomyProgramme

    in 2019 and a reduction in the tax-free threshold yielding another 1 percent of GDP in 2020. This appears... percent. Tax reforms include a reduction in the tax-free threshold from its current level of 8,636

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  4. Tsipras looks to build political capital from 2016 overperformance
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    to the tax-free threshold will not have to be brought forward from 2020 to 2019 and Athens will be able... to offset the impact of pension cuts and the reduction in the tax-free threshold, such as lowering some

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  5. Ahead of vote, Tsakalotos appeals to SYRIZA MPs with positive message
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    on Thursday, Tsakalotos sought to put them at ease about the reduction of the tax-free threshold... percent would mean that the tax-free threshold would actually be at around 6,250 euros. Of course

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  6. Greek distrust of media high compared to EU average
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    Society

    that their media provided information free from political or commercial pressure, an average of 57..., when asked if public service media was free from political pressure, 90 percent of Greeks said

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  7. Greeks deeply pessimistic about future but confidence in euro persists
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    Society

    Eurobarometer in Autumn 2016. Among other points, Greeks were also more in favour for free movement (87... more in favour of a free trade and investment agreement between the EU and the US, with 64 percent

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  8. Third review agenda becoming more complex for Tsipras
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    the implementation of the tax-free threshold. This would be a political problem for Alexis Tsipras as his government... of another 1 percent of GDP from lowering the tax-free ceiling the same year could scupper the prime

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  9. Out-of-court workout holds promise for firms in debt
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    Legal

    principle, the parties are free to negotiate and determine the content of the final agreement... to the free negotiation principle (i.e. no grace period, no more than 120 installments, only cash

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  10. China’s Footprint in Southeast Europe: Constructing the "Balkan Silk Road"
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    Agora

    free regime effective since January 2017. The most recently available international trade data.... A further medium-term spill-over effect could be the establishment of free trade agreements (FTA) between

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