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Search for solutions, not scapegoats in EU's refugee crisis
Agoraas Chancellor Angela Merkel can incur so much wrath over her refugee policy that 40 percent of Germans would... force can patrol the sea, acting as a deterrent, but once an overcrowded, flimsy dinghy sets sail from... that human decency demands of an enlightened Europe. The other point concerns what more Greece can do once
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Newsletter 203 -15/04/2019
More voter-friendly measures eyed Tsipras vows to leave tax-free threshold untouched as EC hints... is currently on the minimum wage and earning 9,100 euros a year pay 730 euros in income tax in 2020... in revenues and at broadening the tax base so a much higher number of Greeks pay income tax
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Newsletter 273 -13/11/2020
related to the coronavirus, with another 310 patients intubated around the country. The number of new... to pay 10 percent of their regular payment with the programme’s duration set at nine months. The scheme... in question can provide alternative debt settlement proposals to the borrower within 30 days
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Saving Angela Merkel with the help of Alexis Tsipras
Agorastill await legal and administrative clarification in their respective countries. But what is known so... registered applicant is caught by the police in Germany or seeks to enter the country, he or she can immediately be brought to an airport and flown back to either Spain or Greece. Can such a bilateral
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Welcome to Berlin: Mitsotakis meets Merkel
Agorathat await Mitsotakis during his policy deliberations in the Chancellery. First and foremost, before any... of ‘delivery boy’ in the German press. What can we expect to be on the priority list of policy issues... being linked with environmental impact assessment in Berlin. It could therefore pay dividends
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Govt hints at more relief, as economy and inflation jostle with pandemic as top public concerns
PoliticsGreek Politicspay some of the highest wholesale prices for electricity in Europe, hitting 217 euros per MWh... pct. The growth in support for far-right Greek Solution from 4.2 pct to 5.2 pct can be seen
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Mitsotakis win sends ripples through other opposition parties
PoliticsGreek Politicsa “catalyst” in this. One of Mitsotakis’s key advisers, Nikos Georgiadis joined Drasi from New Democracy... of cooperation for Mitsotakis in the short-term appears to be the small liberal party Drasi, which supported
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Government commits to uniformed personnel pay rises amid clamour for higher incomes
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has been forced to commit to pay rises for all uniformed..., coast guard and fire service to be awarded more pay following the recent announcement of wage... that more pay increases would be announced in due course but “under the right conditions and at the right
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World Bank sets out savings Greece can make from streamlining welfare benefits
EconomyProgramme200 existing welfare benefits in Greece and identified a prioritised list of benefits that can... increase in the share of households that pay personal income taxes from 63 to 72.7 percent. However
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How 'clean' can an exit be? Athens snared between Rome and Berlin
Agorafor Greece. How “clean” such an exit strategy can be for the Greek authorities and what degree... but all participants would be advised to heed the lessons learned from three years ago. *You can follow... the fallout mean for Greece? Foreign minister Nikos Kotzias was in Berlin this week and heard from his
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