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Revenues at 4.77 bln in Oct, beating target for fourth straight month
Economyto the targets being beaten over the last four months, even though there is a steady increase in unpaid...The final budget execution to October confirmed preliminary figures, released by the Ministry of Finance (MoF) on November 13, showing revenues beating monthly targets by 763 million euros
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Coalition's attempt to defend handling of fatal blaze fails to stem criticism
PoliticsGreek Politicsin Kinetta and Mati being the product of arson. The officials also explained that the speed with which the Mati blaze, which caused so many deaths, advanced due to gale-force winds made efforts to evacuate... set of circumstances that they encountered, primarily due to the strong wind (around 100 km/hour
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Newsletter 271 -30/10/2020
that a large portion of workers fell into one of three categories: Either they saw their work suspended... at 7.01 bln September figure confirmed as missing target by 9.58 billion euros The budget primary balance recorded a deficit of 7.01 billion euros in the first nine months of 2020, compared to a surplus
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MPs gear up for action as To Potami calls it a day and PASOK wobbles
PoliticsGreek Politics, with the sliding scale dropping to 180 votes in the third vote, 151 in the fourth and just a simple majority in the final ballot. The proposal needs to secure just 151 votes to be adopted as 224 MPs voted... percent, 16.3 points ahead of SYRIZA on 21.3 percent even though the conservatives saw their level
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Tsipras pushes for revision of constitution, hoping to score political points
PoliticsGreek Politicslong-held policy goals. Tsipras wrote to party leaders this week to invite them to engage... in favour now and 151 under the next Parliament for the change to be made. Otherwise, if only...’ proposals should be set out and that voters should have the final say when they cast their ballots
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Lowest income groups in Greece saw wages drop and taxes rise most during crisis
SocietyLower income groups in Greece saw their tax burden increase by 337.7 percent from 2008 to 2012... percent from 2008 to 2012, the bottom three income groups saw their earnings from wages sink the most...) was in the 5th decile while those at the top saw their wage income fall by 9.3 percent. It also finds
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Strait of Hormuz tensions test EU unity and Greece's strategic limits
PoliticsForeign Policyto engage in initiatives originating from the US. On Monday, most European leaders also confirmed... gave a negative response to such prospects. As the EU’s foreign chief Kaja Kallas stated on Monday
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Newsletter 376 - 31/03/2023
, but that the first election will set the tone and decide who is in the driving seat for the next ballot... on an individual basis in order to reach at least 151 seats in the 300-seat Parliament, should the elections.... The parties have set their own benchmarks for success on May 21. ND is aiming for upwards of 34 pct
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SYRIZA seeks to bolster post-MoU narrative with early IMF repayment
PoliticsGreek PoliticsParliament elections, the prime minister argued that his party has fulfilled the goals it had set... shows a middle class household saw its annual income decrease by 5,258 euros between 2011 and 2014... in Mandra and the fatal wildfire in Mati – and that she will overcome this criticism to win the vote
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ND prepares first three bills for votes before Parliament's summer recess
PoliticsGreek Politics’s 158 MPs would vote, but what policy agenda the centre-right party would set out over the three-day debate. The government is set to bring three bills to Parliament by August 10, when the House... is also set to contain a provision for the scrapping of the so-called university "asylum" law, which
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