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Newsletter 197 -8/03/2019
is that the applicant’s total savings should be no more than 50 percent of the unpaid loan, which means... by the borrower should be no more than double the threshold for the primary residence i.e. 500,000... by repurposing any fiscal overperformance, rather than redistributing it, as the current government has done
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Primary residence talks continue amid uncertainty about draft legislation
EconomyProgrammewilling to overcome their reservations if the criteria for these loans is much tougher than... value of the properties in question to be no higher than 130,000 euros (compared to the 250,000 euros originally proposed by the government) and for the borrower to owe no more than 50,000 euros
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No breakthrough in discussions over protection for main homes
EconomyProgrammeof the properties that can be protected to be 230,000 euros, rather than the 250,000 euros propose by the government. They also want the maximum level of the residual mortgage to be 100,000 euros, rather than 130,000. They are also pushing for the ceiling on the deposits that borrowers have to be no higher than
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OECD report highlights stress on Greek middle class during crisis
Societyin the last decade than in the preceding ones. Between 2008 and 2016, real median incomes which act... than increased, shrinking by almost 6 percent per year. The report also found that Greece went against... of cash benefits that the middle class receives is slightly less than its share of the population
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Newsletter 205 -10/05/2019
than enthusiastic response to the interventions from Greece’s lenders, who were in Athens.... For pensioners earning more than 1,000 euros, the rate will be 30 percent. Achtsioglou said... less than 500 euros a month) and that the legislation to be submitted to Parliament later this month
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The Greek election's winners and losers
Agoraless damaged than he expected to be. Considering that SYRIZA gained just over 23 percent... vote was a much better performance than expected. SYRIZA lost around 145,000 votes (and 4 percentage... poll data, SYRIZA’s support among younger voters was 8 points stronger than for ND. This is also
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ND moves on to next bill after first round of tax cuts approved
PoliticsGreek Politicsless than 60,000 euros,” while half of that amount is for properties worth more than 500,000 euros... more than 1 million euros are less than 15,000 of 7.3 million taxpayers in total and that their tax... of the total reduction would be enjoyed by those owning properties worth less than 200,000 euros. Staikouras
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Newsletter 223 -11/10/2019
that a better-than-expected performance on the revenue side over the last few months has given... to the Finance Ministry, more than 1.1 million taxpayers applied to settle their tax and social security debts... euros on heating fuel benefit this winter and that the subsidy would be paid out in advance, rather than
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New asylum law comes up against old failings
Agoradepartures, rather than forced returns, which are seen as a last resort. In 2018, the Netherlands... for Migration (IOM). Also, fewer than 2,000 people have been returned under the terms of the EU-Turkey... recently argued that Greece is facing a migration, rather than a refugee crisis, which has created
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Newsletter 228 -15/11/2019
, a full 0.5 percent lower than the government’s 2020 budget target, and 2 percent for 2021, with long.... A breakdown of amounts owed showed that 79 percent of debtors owe less than 15,000 euros each... turned negative in October with 125,668 more firings than hirings, data from the Labour Ministry’s
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