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Leaders present voters with stark choices as campaign reaches climax
PoliticsGreek Politicsto the electoral register since 2015) than the opposition. SYRIZA is hoping that it will be able to match... between the two leading parties is slightly wider than the 6.7-point lead for ND published in a poll... at 3.4 points in New Democracy’s favour. This is 0.7 points less than a poll by the same company
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Newsletter 209 -07/06/2019
of the tax-free threshold is more of a spanner in the next government’s works than a voter-pleasing... a fiscal cost of more than 1 percent of GDP in 2019 and beyond. These range from tax repayments... less than initially planned, either by choice or because spending ceilings have been set
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Tsipras steps in to limit damage, Mitsotakis eyes tax cuts and fiscal targets
PoliticsGreek Politicsthan any of their predecessors. While the second claim may be open to debate, it is clear that SYRIZA..., the opposition party has probably promised more in the form of tax cuts than the government, plus... but the move paying off because it delivered more revenues, rather than less as the creditors had expected.
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Social impact of crisis seen easing in 2018, but 31.8 pct still at risk of poverty/exclusion
Society2010 to 2014, the rate began to decline in 2015. However, the 2018 rate is still 4.2 pps higher than... percent in 2018 is lower than the 2005 figure of 19.6 percent. Income inequality, which measures... feeling happy or calm and peaceful in the past week than feeling depressed or lonely. This survey
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ND ready to flesh out its policy agenda, with focus on tax plans
PoliticsGreek Politicsless than 3,000 euros. However, there appears to be resistance from the lenders on the inclusion... its reduction over three years rather than two, thereby placing slightly less pressure on public... that the two bodies, in their new form, would be led by senior civil servants rather than political
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Mitsotakis promises 'new normality,' lines up tax cuts straight away
PoliticsGreek Politicstowards owners of small properties. Their bills will be 30 percent lower. This is a bigger cut than... that the conservatives are starting to reduce ENFIA a year earlier than expected. They had pledged.... The introductory tax rate for anyone earning less than 10,000 euros will be reduced from 22 to 9 percent
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ND prepares first three bills for votes before Parliament's summer recess
PoliticsGreek Politicsof Monday’s vote having anything other than symbolic value. The issue at stake was not how New Democracy... to be submitted by the end of the week, 3.4 million owners of property worth less than 60,000 euros... for the 14,706 people who own property worth more than 1 million euros. Interior Minister Takis Theodorikakos
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Falling T-bill yields underline market confidence in Greek debt, promise lower servicing costs
EconomyManagement Agency (PDMA) auctioned 625 million euros and was offered more than 1.5 billion, including 221... for the 52-week T-bills, which closed 2018 with a yield of more than 1 percent, to drop under 0.5 percent in the latest auction held in the middle of June this year. June’s issue was covered more than two
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PBO highlights budget, recovery risks in latest report
EconomyMacroeconomyis 2.1 billion euros lower than during the same period last year. The PBO notes that although part... tax by 205 million euros more than had been legislated by the previous government will add... reaching 31.8 percent, which is 3 percentage points lower than the previous figure and even more
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Growing Greece: From narrative to reality
Agorainvestment and get the Greek economy growing at a faster rate than has been predicted so far. The three areas.... They are working from a much sounder base than Greece has had for many years, they are making efforts..., including a more benign international environment than the current one, a growth rate of 3 percent could
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