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Turkey and Western Balkans top Greek agenda at European Council
PoliticsForeign Policy. The 27 European Union member states call again on Ankara to respect international law and stability... and territorial integrity of all EU member states. Recalling its previous conclusions and the declaration... Commission’s recommendation for Ukraine’s EU candidacy status. Greece is one of the EU member states
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Where is Odysseus? Part 6 - Potential real GDP
Agoraexplicitly in its Aging Report that the productivity assumptions for all member states are based... on the political desire to see lagging EU member states achieve this convergence in productivity, which also... outlooks, so higher future growth scenarios, sanctioned by the EU Commission and member states, justify
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Tailor-made Maastricht criteria for Greece?
AgoraThe European Union is discussing how to reform the fiscal rules for its member states. The original..., in principle. They called for the deficit of a member state to remain below 3 percent of GDP a year... separately for each member state, and for the EU27 as a whole. Greece has faster population decline
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Greek-Turkish tensions flare over Turkey’s bid to join SAFE
PoliticsForeign Policytake, of course, concerns from our member states extremely seriously. We have safeguards in place in our regulation to make sure that no third country can contravene the interests of one of our member... not contravene the security and defence interests of the Union, and the Member States as established
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Greece trying to lay 'phantom' pensions to rest
Societythey all had a legal entitlement to their monthly retirement pay. As a result, Greece’s main social... themselves either at an IKA office or at the place they receive their retirement pay from, such as post... pay after the claimant had died. Vroutsis said that the annual value of the unjustified claims
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A third of Greek homeowners fear losing their properties in 2014
Societyexpressed fear about losing their home. Only 61.2 percent of those questioned said they were able to pay their mortgage instalments on time, whereas 22 percent said they often pay late and 16.8 percent said... 1 million Greek households are paying mortgages, meaning that 168,000 owners are failing to pay
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Wage ruling gives gov't immediate fiscal headache, political one may come later
PoliticsGreek Politicsretroactively from August 2012. This would force the coalition to pay back the money those affected... on Wednesday but will not be able to use any of this money to pay back military personnel and policemen... to their salaries. A lower court that deals with wage issues ruled in December that judges’ pay should
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The wrong prescription
Agora. They also have to wait up to six months for social security funds and healthcare provider EOPYY to pay their share of medicine costs. The OECD also makes no mention of the fact pharmacies have to pay a rebate and suffered losses in the 2012 PSI on the Greek bonds the government used to pay them
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A closer look at planned laws for unpaid taxes and home foreclosures
EconomyMacroeconomy-payment that stems from strategic default and those that are unable to pay. c) Target individuals... with zero income will not pay any instalments for their mortgage. Households with annual income up to 25,000 euros will have to pay 10 percent of their income to service their housing loan, while
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Greece's imminent funding problems: All the numbers you need
EconomyProgrammewilling participants in the issue or pay off those that decline to roll over, thereby creating... obligations in the last month of each quarter. Greece has also to pay in March more than 1 billion euros..., the Greek state has to pay in cash 2.61 billion euros in March, which could increase by over 800
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