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Newsletter 210 -07/06/2019
. Mitsotakis identified four ways in which Greece can attract more investment: Lower taxes, less... corporation tax from 28 percent to 20 percent (along with lower VAT and dividends tax) and slashing the ENFIA property tax by 30 percent across-the-board. In an interview with Open TV on Thursday morning
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First step in TV licensing process completed as controversy continues
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government has received 11 expressions of interest in the new TV broadcasting licenses it plans... in a previously murky field. Since private TV emerged in Greece in the late 1980s, there has been... is the main argument used by TV channels that currently have licenses in their attempt to invalidate
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Uncomfortable questions regarding TV auction mount for coalition
PoliticsGreek Politicsregarding the recent auction for TV licences, which the coalition has held up as a shining example... against the tender by the existing TV channels, most of whom failed to win permits in the recent... to rubber stamp the tender. A second controversial aspect to the TV permits auction has emerged this week
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TV licencing becomes key political battleground after court verdict
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAfter suffering the blow of seeing its centrepiece legislation on TV licences being shot down... a new ESR board so it can launch a new tender for TV licences that will not be blocked... the government save some face and prove that it is determined to regulate the TV sector. “We’ll see now whether
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Athens waits for Moscovici visit, eyes debt relief and lower volume of measures
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor a less drastic reduction in the tax-free threshold (the government would not want to drop it lower... the technical teams have had a chance to examine the fiscal data for 2016. Speaking on Ant-1 TV on Monday
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Budget approved as party machinations intensify
PoliticsGreek Politics, including the Macedonia name issue and the recent terrorist attack on Kathimerini newspaper and Skai TV... legislated by the government, such as the reduction in contributions for the self-employed, lower ENFIA... moving Against this backdrop of political theatre, there were a couple of notable developments within
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Newsletter 279 -13/11/2020
Mitsotakis said in a TV interview in December. At the time, the premier admitted that the lockdown... to lower production requirements and redundancies. Backlogs of work fell at a marked pace as new order.... Interior Minister Takis Thedorikakos was also left out of the new line-up to be replaced by Agriculture
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Tax cuts spearhead Mitsotakis's message in Thessaloniki
PoliticsGreek Politicsand that if there is a recession in the EU, this will strengthen Greece’s case for lower primary surpluses. In his speech... of putting off any effort to lower the primary surplus targets. The opposition party also claimed that his... pharmaceutical companies are set to invest 460 million euros over the next years. India was the honoured
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TV permit auction boosts Greek coffers but questions linger
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the auction result is that Skai TV, with which the governing parties have had a long-running... Marinakis, a shipowner who is also chairman of Olympiakos football club, to the TV market is likely..., the government suggested it could get 340 million euros in revenues from the TV licence tender
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After joy of TV permit auction, Tsipras faces programme restrictions
PoliticsGreek Politicswith the representatives of the four firms that were successful in last week’s TV licence auction... Nikos Pappas, who has overseen the whole process of regulating the TV market. It is clear, however... disposal. The prime minister, however, will want to maximise the political benefit from the TV tender
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