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Whether an "early" or "clean" exit, it's the same old story for Greece
Agora, this time with a mandate to implement the third MoU rather than to rip up the second, as was the case... and the return of growth. The SYRIZA leader hopes to leave this as his (positive) legacy rather than... territory when the third MoU ends on August 20. While putting asside more than eight years
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Overdue social security debt at 31.87 bln in Q1, debtors at 1.2 mln
EconomyMacroeconomy) revealed. Until the end of 2016, KEAO was fed by overdue contributions of more than 5,000 euros from... from various funds, as mentioned previously, which totalled more than 1 million across the year... that 69 percent of debtors owe less than 15,000 euros each for an aggregate amount of 3.36 billion
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Greeks seen working longer, until July 18, to meet annual tax bill
Societylater than that of last year, which according to ELSTAT fell on July 6, 2017. They estimate... very slightly by 0.2 percent in 2017. Workers taxes on average were 1 percent higher than 2010... Molinari study outlines that Greeks reached their tax freedom date 27 days later than they did in 2010
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Primary residence talks continue amid uncertainty about draft legislation
EconomyProgrammewilling to overcome their reservations if the criteria for these loans is much tougher than... value of the properties in question to be no higher than 130,000 euros (compared to the 250,000 euros originally proposed by the government) and for the borrower to owe no more than 50,000 euros
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No breakthrough in discussions over protection for main homes
EconomyProgrammeof the properties that can be protected to be 230,000 euros, rather than the 250,000 euros propose by the government. They also want the maximum level of the residual mortgage to be 100,000 euros, rather than 130,000. They are also pushing for the ceiling on the deposits that borrowers have to be no higher than
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OECD report highlights stress on Greek middle class during crisis
Societyin the last decade than in the preceding ones. Between 2008 and 2016, real median incomes which act... than increased, shrinking by almost 6 percent per year. The report also found that Greece went against... of cash benefits that the middle class receives is slightly less than its share of the population
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The Greek election's winners and losers
Agoraless damaged than he expected to be. Considering that SYRIZA gained just over 23 percent... vote was a much better performance than expected. SYRIZA lost around 145,000 votes (and 4 percentage... poll data, SYRIZA’s support among younger voters was 8 points stronger than for ND. This is also
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New asylum law comes up against old failings
Agoradepartures, rather than forced returns, which are seen as a last resort. In 2018, the Netherlands... for Migration (IOM). Also, fewer than 2,000 people have been returned under the terms of the EU-Turkey... recently argued that Greece is facing a migration, rather than a refugee crisis, which has created
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Promises and challenges of Greece's "green new deal"
EconomyFeatures, the targets call for more than a tripling of wind power and photovoltaic generation capacity from 2017... than the original plan, and a 50 percent increase over 2017 levels), as well as a slight increase...) is largely the result of market liberalisation since the 1990s. More than 40 percent of the electricity
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PM declares tourism season open, rules out new lockdown
PoliticsGreek Politicsand the hiring of 1,100 medical personnel. Mitsotakis noted that during four days last week, more than... would be better prepared for a second outbreak than it was for the first because society... returned to the country during the coronavirus outbreak because they felt safer than being abroad may
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