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HRADF outlines major privatisation plan, no timelines given
EconomyProgrammesmall stake in OTE is up for sale, it constitutes one of the most important privatisation moves Greece will undertake due to the size of the company. OTE is one of the three biggest companies listed.... Regarding the Hellenikon project, one of the most closely watched privatisations to come out of Greece
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Spending on pensions down by 30.9 mln in December
EconomyMacroeconomyindividuals in December 2017. From the total pension claimants, roughly 1.2 million receive one main pension, 796,000 receive one main and one supplementary pension and around 211,000 also receive..., while just one percent are under 25 years old. It should be noted that the youngest category of pension
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Newsletter 153 -2/03/2018
Corporation (PPC) lignite-powered units, which was one of the items discussed, will be ready... in August. One potential point of friction between Athens and the lenders is the implementation... were outstanding. One was settled last week, when the Council of State approved the plan
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Newsletter 155 -16/03/2018
. The report suggests that one of the prior actions that will not be completed on time relates to the land... heads in the civil service, according to Capital. One of the actions that the institutions... around 10,000 zones, was March 15 but a one-week extension for the evaluators is expected. Greece’s
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Collateral damage in Europe?
Agorathe established superpower and the rising one is the more reliable and predictable trading partner... and China. One way or the other, EU members states and candidate countries are caught in the trade war... aspects. For one, in Europe the standard operating procedure continues to rest on the separation between
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Coalition survives no-confidence vote over name deal but sees majority trimmed
PoliticsGreek Politicsa no-confidence vote in Parliament but lost one MP in the process. Dimitris Kammenos of ANEL..., which seems unlikely, the coalition’s majority will be reduced by one to just three seats. Given... the country will have “geographical qualifier,” there will not be one for its citizens. New Democracy has
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Recent study issues warning over ageing population, future pension burden
Societyproductive than a young one, the report stated. Apart from longevity increasing the age of the workforce, reduced fertility will also be a compounding factor as Greece has one of the lowest fertility... has one of the highest projected old-age dependency ratios in the OECD, defined as the number
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Mitsotakis prepares to unveil economic plans, leave imprint ahead of elections
PoliticsGreek Politicsto power. The opposition chief has indicated, though, that he will employ a five-out-one-in rule, meaning that there will only be one civil servant hired for every five that leave. The government, meanwhile, is preparing to implement a one-out-one-in scheme from the start of next year after
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Another austerity fighter to bite the dust
Agoraas a one-size-fits-all austerity recipe imposed on countries receiving assistance (Ireland, Portugal... with this arrangement is that while one can sue their government in national courts, European institutions in European... jurisdiction however does not mean that one wins on the substance of claims as well. The court had
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Athens to send draft budget to Brussels after talks with IMF on pensions
EconomyProgrammeand one in which they are not. According to the latest reports, and contrary to earlier coverage... with the pension cuts removed completely. One of the two scenarios in the economic plan – the one... to Naftemporiki newspaper, one of the differences between the draft budget tabled in Greek Parliament
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