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What the agreement between Greece and lenders means for fiscal and tax policy
EconomyProgrammeto the draft sMoU the aim is to streamline the welfare system and better target the needs... of the family benefit system, reforms to disability benefits, streamlining of social insurance... for uncollected VAT related to unpaid good and services and introducing a system of regular monthly payment
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EU court ruling leaves margin for change to collective redundancy law
Legal. Under its current form, the system does not, by its very nature, exclude companies from making... of establishment. The court concludes that the national system can satisfy the requirements... of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in any retrieval system
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PBO warns of recovery risks, fourth bailout and possible default
EconomyMacroeconomyin the pension system and a new tax code. Another matter raised by PBO is that of the coverage of Greece’s... could result in public cost rationalisation. The pension system is not sustainable, according... system to the markets and the fortune. Overall, PBO concludes that the achievement of marginal GDP
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Newsletter 109 - 03/03/2017
of banknotes to and repatriation of funds in the Greek banking system since the imposition of capital controls at the end of June 2015. Specifically, the net inflow of banknotes to the domestic banking system... the repatriation of deposits (outside the Greek banking system) was higher at 4.8 billion. Overall
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I know what you did the summer before last
Agorathe threat of bankrupting the national health system with a mass order of neck braces, this about-turn... of that period. For instance, Varoufakis claims he devised a plan for a parallel payment system even before... a series of amateurisms driven by woolly thinking. This is a question that the Greek political system
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Mandatory e-payments come into force as Greece seeks to boost card use further
EconomyFeaturesdirective, businesses are required to accept payments via a quadruple-payment system including Visa... payment system, or who pay the fine within 30 days, will be subject to a fine of half the total... didn’t receive a payment system before the deadline and can prove that their request was made
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Healthcare next stop for Tsipras amid Georgiou case fallout
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe public health system. It has contrasted this with comments from New Democracy officials suggesting... the government envisages citizens having across-the-board free access to the public healthcare system... in the judicial system, issued a statement on Thursday defending the Greek courts' right to convict
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Capital controls to ease further from the beginning of September
EconomyMacroeconomyeconomy and financial system. Improvements in tax collection and VAT rates were noted as more people switched to paying by card rather than cash, and deposits in the banking system stabilised. Deposit inflows in the Greek banking system in June were reported as having increased to 1.09 billion
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Energy conference highlights path and obstacles to European energy integration
EconomyFeaturesTransmission System Operator (DESFA), remarked on the prospects of a Europe with a uniform gas network system. “Although the market cannot be considered fully integrated and there is much to be done.... “There is an increasingly urgent need for proceeding with the modifications of the electricity system and market codes
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Further measures to protect and strengthen financial stability foreseen in sMoU
EconomyProgrammeand commitments, which are considered essential for the viability of the banking system... with the lenders. The strategy for the financial system aims to address three main banking sector issues... in the banking system and to a sustainable funding model for banks in the medium term. Via the Bank of Greece
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