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Tsipras seeks to capitalise on bailout exit, build platform for elections
PoliticsGreek Politics-programme monitoring. One position that is vacant at the moment is Alternate Citizens’ Protection.... There is also speculation that Tsipras will try to broaden his cabinet’s appeal by bringing in one or two faces
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Tax cuts set to lead package of post-MoU pledges by Tsipras
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAlexis Tsipras is preparing to play one of his final political cards ahead of the next elections by presenting a package of tax cuts and spending increases at the Thessaloniki Expo (DETH... plan (as opposed to one imposed by the country’s creditors). He also stressed that the government’s
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Piraeus Bank posts net profit of 24 mln in Q2, ELA funding fully eliminated
EconomyBankingof sales and purchase agreements for two loan portfolios totalling 1.8 billion euros. One comprised of secured loans (Amoeba) and one unsecured (Arctos). Across the second half of the year
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Coalition tweaks labour market, lines up more post-MoU changes
PoliticsGreek Politics, during which they were reined in, is one of the government’s key pledges and one of the headline items
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Greece tops OECD countries for tax rises and spending cuts
EconomyFeatures(over one year) as a percentage of total unemployment was 31 percent, while in Greece the figure... tax base through significant cuts to child tax credits from 2020. For taxpayers with one child
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ANEL leader under scrutiny due to party unrest, questions over refugee funds
PoliticsGreek Politicsbe leaving his party. This takes the party’s presence in Parliament down to five. If one more... different to the current one. The most significant aspect of this change is that it could bring
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Greece 57th in WEF's Global Competitiveness Index based on new methodology
EconomyFeaturesshows that the country dropped by four places in 2018 compared to a drop of one place in 2017. Greece came in one level below the Phillipines at 56 and India at 58. The top spot in the rankings went
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Athens edges towards compromise on pension cuts but may have to plug fiscal gap
EconomyProgrammecuts should not be implemented will not be an obstacle unless one or more eurozone member states choose... with the lenders. Fiscal gap Several reports in Greece suggest that one other potential stumbling
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Newsletter 180 -26/10/2018
that he can deflect attention from this issue to one involving former defence minister Yiannis.... On the flipside, New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis also knows that this is one of his party’s
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Coalition's role in freight terminal contract, public broadcaster under attack
PoliticsGreek Politicsone was carried out recently, when the economic outlook appeared much better and this altered... of the way its predecessors treated the public broadcaster. It is one of several areas in which SYRIZA has
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