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Lenders set to keep coalition waiting for answer on pension cuts
PoliticsGreek Politics. This meeting is set to take place in the wake of the institutions issuing their first post-programme report... out the cuts being put on hold, but also stressing the need to ensure that markets do not get... of the draft budget in the Greek Parliament. The coalition looks set to be in the embarrassing
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Lenders set to highlight reform delays, leaving fiscal gap concerns until after elections
EconomyProgramme’s 3.5 percent of GDP primary surplus target is set to be challenged in the institutions’ report. The lenders are expected to suggest that the measures have put the 2019 target at risk. They have... made since the second enhanced surveillance report earlier this year will be set out, the latest
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New Parliament set for fractious opening session after Mitsotakis curtain-raiser
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe parties in Greece’s newly elected Parliament will have the opportunity to set out their agendas.... A series of announcements are expected along the lines of the programme set out in New Democracy’s... positions on several issues put him at odds with the party’s progressive mainstream and with Androulakis
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Dispute with farmers set to escalate as government offer rejected by holdouts
PoliticsGreek Politics, and are set to vote on Wednesday on a motion to take their protest to Athens. Mitsotakis is still... Minister Kostas Tsiaras are set to meet farmers in central Macedonia to discuss issues relating... betrays a lack of sincere concern for the primary sector and a desire to put other interests ahead
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Fire on outskirts of Athens puts PM's crisis strategy under scrutiny
PoliticsGreek Politics, which often creates confusion or inertia. In a recent interview with Politico, Stylianides spoke... likened to “coming into a minefield.” The Pendeli blaze will put Stylianides under greater scrutiny... to the Mati disaster and to put the blame firmly and exclusively at the feet of the SYRIZA
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Government unveils 2.5 bln plan to avert water shortages, prompts opposition pushback
PoliticsGreek Politicsteam said the announcement amounts to an admission of long‑standing governmental inertia, pointing..., the government has put a large bet on big infrastructure and institutional reform to put Greece
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Early rounds of talks with lenders focus on possible prior actions
EconomyProgrammelevy rate was set at 6 percent. The institutions are also asking the government to adopt legislation... including Sundays. 14) Restructuring of Athens public transport (OASA). 15) Change in the legislation
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Greece stuck in the long tunnel of political transition
Agoraelection story. The economy is set to show the first signs of growth, unemployment has stopped rising, banks have been recapitalised, the memorandum is due to expire and tourism arrivals are set... this transition goes on the more people will come to accept a daily diet of inertia and parochial
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Rental subsidy rekindles political debate over housing crisis
PoliticsGreek Politicsincome criteria are set to receive a refund of up to 800 euros annually each November, equivalent to one... around 20,000, to be put on the market. However, the problem of high prices and rents has... authority are elected. Under the government’s latest proposal, as set out in the newspaper, a threshold
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Speculation about snap elections in 2020 refuses to die down
PoliticsGreek Politicsit has adopted and plans to implement in the coming months, while taking advantage of SYRIZA’s inertia..., there is a peculiar set of circumstances that means the possibility should not be dismissed
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