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Newsletter 168 -29/06/2018
his economic policy ideas to German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz, including plans to cut... fiscal balancing act. Last Thursday’s Eurogroup outlined the set of commitments that the Greek
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Mitsotakis plans cuts to pension contributions, aims to add private element to system
PoliticsGreek PoliticsNew Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis has set out some of the policies he plans to unveil at the Thessaloniki Expo in the coming days as the competition between the government and the opposition... that the SYRIZA leader will match New Democracy’s promise to cut the ENFIA property tax by 30 percent
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Take your seats
Agoraset to donate the hospital to the Greek state) at the expense of the other four bidders. On the same... the tone by relying on greater polarisation, digging up scandals and mudslinging to cut his opponents
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Athens edges towards compromise on pension cuts but may have to plug fiscal gap
EconomyProgrammeIt appears that the institutions are set to grant the Greek government’s request regarding the cancellation of the pension cuts that were due to kick in next year, but reports suggest that Athens... of the lenders, the International Monetary Fund, have agreed that Athens will not have to cut pension
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Athens prepares final 2019 budget after green light to ditch pension cuts
EconomyProgrammeThe government is set to submit the final version of the 2019 budget to Parliament on Wednesday without the pension cuts that were pre-legislated in 2017 but with the so-called “positive” measures... if pensions were cut. The publication of the budget will also reveal how an apparent gap of 200-300 million
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Moments to remember from the euro crisis
Agorathe pressure on governments to cut back on public spending or increase taxes. However, there is also.... This chafing exacerbated the crisis and set a negative precedent for dialogue and decision-making within
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Newsletter 193 -08/02/2018
against the scrapping of their Christmas, Easter and summer bonuses which were cut as part of the terms... below the asking price which had been set by an independent consultant. No bids qualified
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Newsletter 201 -21/04/2019
was meant to have completed a specific set of reforms as part of the second post-programme review... of Greeks dislike the compromise he made with the neighbouring country, the SYRIZA leader has his work cut
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In latest election pledge, Tsipras vows to ditch lower tax-free threshold
PoliticsGreek Politicstold ANT-1 TV. “I had said that pensions would not be cut and people doubted me,” he added... cheap borrowing, we have liquidity, we have the IMF set to leave,” he said. “Based on this, we can
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Banks focus on reducing NPLs linked to property
EconomyMacroeconomy, the bank outlined that they have set up two new committees for the management of non-proprietary real... details and how the new framework will be used. “The end-2018 cut-off point, the temporary nature
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