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Opposition parties step up pressure after back-and-forth over election date
PoliticsGreek PoliticsInternational Fair in September, when he will try to set out an alternative policy framework to the one.... Tsipras set out a number of measures that a SYRIZA-led government would introduce. These included several.... Furthermore, he pledged to protect primary residences from foreclosure and to create a housing scheme
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Two hurdles left for coalition this year before bigger challenges in 2014
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe new property tax, which unites previous disparate levies in one charge, through Parliament. The new... threatened during Friday’s vote. Only two backbench MPs, one from New Democracy and another from... reservations about changing the current set-up, arguing that it is a risky political move regardless
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Will Tsipras ride the waves in 2016?
Agorabut under normal circumstances adopting even one of these measures would have been enough to bring... that. Tsipras will again come face to face with his previous pledges, such as the one not to reduce... hundreds of migrants from one former 2004 Olympics Games stadium to another, while it tries to find a more
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Newsletter 57 - 08/01/2016
or not. Tsipras and other government officials have indicated that they would like the fund to leave, one...’s problems remains. The latest candidate for this position is Kyriakos Mitsotakis, one of the two... centre. To expect one man or woman to come along and rectify this devastation is unrealistic. Like
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Newsletter 193 -08/02/2018
received one binding offer for the Melitis unit in Florina from Mytilineos which was reporte five times below the asking price which had been set by an independent consultant. No bids qualified..., rather than one of liquidity. According to reports in the Greek press, Greece’s lenders have specified
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Multi-bill tabled in Parliament, paves way for sale of NPLs
EconomyProgrammeone loan that includes an NPL, their performing loans may also be transferred together with the NPL..., the relevant cost ceiling is set at 570 million euros for 2016 and will be lowered by 20 million per annum... and mortgages for homes that are not primary residences until February 15, 2016. This means that the issue
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Censure motion voted down, prompting government and opposition to claim victory
PoliticsGreek Politicsto set out, and defend, its 15-month governing record and to rebuff claims from the opposition... it.” Since last year’s elections, one of Tsipras’s greatest challenges has been how to reposition himself...-disguised attempt to allow Greek banks to snatch primary residences from the hands of borrowers who have
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Newsletter 198 -15/03/2019
for the protection of primary residences. The European Commission set out a list of changes it felt should.... According to Euro2day, the government is set to agree to the threshold for the maximum deposits an applicant can have being set at 30 percent of the residual mortgage. The maximum level of the residual
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The "King of the North" seeking to heal a fractured kingdom
Agoraoften media and political elites on the continent see the UK through a one‑dimensional lens, still... in the north of England, that feel overlooked and left behind. Elbow’s “One Day Like This” offers... figure with broad, cross‑party appeal, and the only one many MPs believe could rebuild the coalition
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ECB's negative opinion on foreclosure bill creates another obstacle in bailout talks
EconomyProgrammeThere has been no official response from the Greek coalition to the European Central Bank (ECB) publishing on April 10 its opinion on the draft law on the suspension of primary residence foreclosures... one). Eligible debtors must also fulfil the following criteria: 1) Their annual income should
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