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  1. PM brushes aside political cost of self-employed tax bill as main opposition unravels
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    a million workers. The Finance Ministry has been defending the measure on the grounds of tax justice... election defeats and a traumatic leadership transition. SYRIZA’s finance spokesman Nikos Pappas.... In response, Kasselakis expelled two lawmakers from the group, former finance minister Euclid Tsakalotos

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  2. Government talks up privatisation benefits, but opposition questions success story
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    for the country as an investment destination. In an announcement celebrating the transaction, Finance... of selling off the state’s shares in the banks. The figure is based on calculations by the finance ministry’s... Airlines. The Finance Ministry claimed that the state’s exit from the airline brought a benefit

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  3. Managing an orderly Greek exit from the memorandum
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    Agora

    support programme from the troika of international creditors. The 2015 draft budget submitted by Finance... of finance ministers plans to discuss in late 2014 whether Athens requires further assistance, what... a year Madrid exited a European Stability Mechanism-financed assistance programme for its banking

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  4. For Stournaras, it's out of the frying pan and into the heating oil

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    for the heating oil tax to be reduced this year. So far, Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras has... tax within his own ministry. Kathimerini reports that Alternate Finance Minister Christos... Stournaras's knowledge, prompting considerable tension within the Finance Ministry. There are two key things

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  5. Coalition in a bind as debt relief slips away and more austerity looms

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    Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras’s insistence that Asmussen did not repeat this during the actual meeting of eurozone finance chiefs, there has been no attempt by the troika to contradict or clarify..., only for the then finance minister Venizelos to announce an emergency property tax in September

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  6. October revenues reverse earlier shortfall, annual primary surplus in sight

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    of Finance (MoF) today. Following a relatively stronger fiscal performance compared to the previous month... concerned about how to complete the review”. Later, Greek Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras stressed... may not be part of the official agenda in both meetings, it is clear that the Greek finance

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  7. Stournaras in firing line for arguing Greeks can pay more taxes
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    hikes so it was no surprise that Finance Minister Yiannis Stournaras’s insistence this week... will surely prompt an outcry. The backlash against his comment stems from the fact the finance minister... is on the finance minister and his colleagues to address this, rather than to expect more from

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  8. The complexities of regaining market access: Could Greece learn from Portugal?
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    Agora

    presidency in early January to make its mark. The Finance Ministry reminded anyone willing to listen... on secondary markets since 2010. According to the Greek Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras, the target... was unwilling to lend to them. And they want to own their reform process, including how to finance

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  9. It's not the distance; it's the load you carry
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    Agora

    austerity. Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras often says that Greece has covered 80 percent..., the Finance Ministry in the end of 2012 revealed in the Medium Term Fiscal Strategy that additional... are still required. The Finance Ministry advocates that the unspecified savings for 2015 and 2016

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  10. Troika returning to Greece but key decisions still months away
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    the end of this week.” This came after Greek Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras briefed his eurozone... the weekend suggested that Chancellor Angela Merkel blocked a bid by Finance Minister Wolfgang... by the IMF, and then how much will be needed to finance the country in 2015/16. The IMF estimates

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