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EU elections in Greece: Applying a different scale of values
Agorafrom 29 to 20 percent, bringing down dividend tax from 15 to 5 percent, decreasing property tax by 30... is reducing taxes and bringing back EKAS [benefit for low-income pensioners],” he said. Commenting... to indicate what kind of effect these interventions had on voters’ choices but it is safe to assume
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Splits and alliances on leaders' minds as thoughts turn to next elections
PoliticsGreek Politicshomosexuality to paedophilia. Tsipras chose not to respond to these remarks during his speech in Parliament..., that Interior Minister Panos Skourletis recently proposed changes to the vast Athens “B” electoral precinct
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Mitsotakis sets aside talk of next Greek president to meet Trump at White House
PoliticsGreek Politicsand Erdogan during which the latter launched a forceful repost to the Greek president’s chiding remarks about... for the former conservative interior minister to become president in 2015, even though New Democracy
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Cabinet clears marriage equality bill without drama as Tempe inquiry hears grave accusations
PoliticsGreek Politicsopening remarks at the cabinet meeting, PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis kept it low-key, noting that legislation... in his socially progressive pronouncements. Interior Minister Niki Kerameus’s attempt to broaden
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Newsletter 234 -10/01/2020
his first tour of Washington as Greek PM. Judging by the public remarks made by Trump before his... fall of 829 million euros, bringing the total figure to 1.10 billion euros. The equivalent figure... of the year showed that the trade deficit increased by 6.2 percent, bringing the total shortfall to 20.15
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Newsletter 243 -13/03/2020
criticised for allowing these practices to continue and not reacting to claims by priests that it is safe...-on-year (YoY) decline was noted in local governments with a fall of 17 million, bringing the total.... A smaller fall of 2 million euros was seen in social security funds, bringing the total 386 million
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Tsipras opts for modest changes to cabinet rather than renewal
PoliticsGreek Politicsofficials. The decision to broaden Dragasakis’s role is seen as Tsipras opting to play safe and ensuring... snap elections a month later and bringing the current government to power. In the end, though, Tsipras... of the refugee crisis. Vitsas is seen as a safe pair of hands, especially as he had involvement in migration
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Mitsotakis renews call for Turkey to scrap "casus belli" - opposition unimpressed
PoliticsGreek Politics, bringing our region closer.” While insisting that “renewables are the future,” he nonetheless defended... Nikos Androulakis lambasted Mitsotakis’s insistence on linking Turkey’s SAFE programme... is another mistake,” said the social democrat. “Turkey's participation in the SAFE program
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Newsletter 35 - 17/07/2015
of a shadow banking system in the country’s real economy. Money under the mattress, in safe deposit... will continue to hover above Greece until the third bailout has been agreed. Interior Minister Nikos Voutsis
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Greek relief at EU-Turkey refugee deal but heavy lifting lies ahead
PoliticsForeign Policy, starting with the recognition of Turkey as a “safe third country,” which would allow refugees..., which is currently under the auspices of the Interior Ministry, and putting him under someone else’s
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