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Newsletter 150 -26/01/2018
Novartis case eclipses name dispute Allegations of bribery involving former MPs overtake political agenda Political developments moved at a rapid pace over the last few days as the government went from being under pressure early in the week following an...
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Privatisation revenues edge upward as end-of-year deadline looms
EconomyFeaturesin order to meet its privatisation target of around 2 billion euros in revenues across the full year... lines from three to five in order to facilitate import and export activity. After the summer lull... of a stake in Attica Gas Corporation from Shell to DEPA was signed for a price of 150 million euros
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Govt’s “zero tolerance” approach to violent protest provokes accusations of authoritarianism
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGovernment and opposition in Greece are once again facing off over law and order in universities... and order agenda Visible policing has been one of the hallmarks of the New Democracy government since... public order offences harsher. A key change involved easing police access to university campuses
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The pension and revenue interventions Greece has to make to meet its 2016 fiscal target
EconomyProgramme(150 million). 6) Increase in the tax rates on income from rents (142 million). Specifically... in the tax rates for insurance fees (54 million) 10) Overhaul of the income tax code (150 million... that “Greece needs some room to maneuver in order to avoid any pension cuts” adding that several “fiscal
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Athens ready to start legislating fiscal measures despite ongoing talks over 2019 budget
EconomyProgrammesubmitted to Parliament last month, the housing scheme will have a fiscal impact of 150 million euros next... that the institutions are concerned about but the remaining 50 to 150 million euros could, theoretically, be found... the Labour Ministry, accusing it of deliberately delaying the processing of pensions in order to show
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Montenegro's vaccination adventure: Lord, bless us with good health
Agorain February more than 150 people died as a result of COVID-19. Another infamous record was broken on March 8... agreements for 150 thousand doses of "Pfizer" are underway. According to currently available... for this information. Vaccination is carried out on a voluntary basis. In order to better organize
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Newsletter 16 - 20/02/2015
implementing the measures that the last government failed to in order to secure another 7.2 billion... in his cabinet, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras chose former New Democracy Interior Minister Prokopis... government, with Pavlopoulos as Interior Minister, issued a presidential decree that allowed fixed-term
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Will Tsipras move to centre stage to secure deal with lenders?
PoliticsGreek Politicsa revised list of reforms within the next few days in order for there to be a chance of eurozone... within the government, even leading to thoughts of removing Panousis’s portfolio from the Interior.... Interior Minister Nikos Voutsis and Alternate Minister for European Affairs Nikos Hountis
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Could Greece's immigration reforms have an impact on upcoming elections?
Societythe number of citizenships awarded in order to build its base, the statistics show a relatively... granted “skyrocketed” from 14,178 to 33,487. Interior Minister Alexis Haritsis responded by describing... inhabitants in 2017. The Interior Ministry publishes more detailed statistics on citizenship
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Greece aiming to agree updated migration deal with Turkey
PoliticsForeign Policyrefugees to EU member states. This will be a tall order since EU member states are already having... Johansson and German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser, the Greek minister said there is more cooperation... following the EU Interior minister’s council that “in my view this statement (EU-Turkey deal) should
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