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Tsipras faces challenges ahead on multiple foreign policy fronts
PoliticsForeign Policyat the Greek Foreign Ministry brings any substantial change to the country’s foreign policy and relevant... NAVTEX on a seismic research by the ship “Barbaros” on a segment of the Greek continental shelf. Athens... in 2017. It would be interesting to see how the Greek government and he himself will respond
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Tsipras reaches settlement with church, aiming to subdue critics
PoliticsGreek Politicsand the Church of Greece over property ownership and removes the fear that at some point a Greek government... with the revision of Article 3 of the Greek constitution, which relates to the role of the church. The prime... and elsewhere will remain and if there will be any changes to the way religion is taught in Greek
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OECD sees 2.2 pct growth in 2019, stressing importance of reform adherence
EconomyMacroeconomythe Greek economy will grow in the near future with the release of its economic outlook, and stressed... growing by 2.2 percent in 2019 from a previous forecast of 2.1 percent for 2018. The Greek Finance... are expected to grow 8.8 percent in 2019. The Greek Finance Ministry anticipates private consumption
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Newsletter 185 -30/11/2018
in the Greek media over the past few days about the timing of the next elections, with Tsipras said... left for the country’s credit institutions. BoG highlights that Greek lenders have made significant... the preliminary figures provided for October to incorporate the Greek government’s new budget figures
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New court verdict adds to concern about impact of backpay on fiscal balance
EconomyProgrammeAnother court decision on backpay has revived fears that in the months to come the Greek government... and effective only for those groups of pensioners that had taken their appeals to the court. The Greek... that 12-month period the Greek state was not in compliance with the decision. The Greek government appears
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SYRIZA states intention to continue as minority govt after ANEL leaves coalition
PoliticsGreek Politicsto be ratified in Skopje in the coming days, is tabled in Greek Parliament. However, he has also made... pressure from Greek judicial authorities to implicate former prime minister Antonis Samaras, Bank... incriminating evidence against the political figures in question. Maniadakis also claimed that Greek
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Greeks consider antisemitism a minor issue despite recent attacks
Societythought it was a fairly important or very important problem in Greece. Twelve percent of Greek respondents... specifically if the desecration of Jewish cemeteries was a problem in Greece, 57 percent of Greek respondents said that it wasn’t. The majority of Greek respondents also did not think that antisemitism
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Newsletter 192 -01/02/2019
of the Greek economy, is supposed to be fully owned by the Greek authorities, Tsipras overlooking the wise men... that such measures are superficial when compared to foreign investment as a means of lifting the Greek economy out... in the Greek market came to 1.1 percent in December compared to a contraction of 1.4 percent seen
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Next government in strong position to decouple presidential vote from snap elections
PoliticsGreek PoliticsRelying on just a simple majority, the next Greek government will have the opportunity to decouple... of Thursday’s second round of voting on proposals for the revision of Greek constitution. The method of electing the Greek president is seen as one of the most significant changes that the political
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Newsletter 203 -15/04/2019
minded and if there is fiscal space and it is a priority for the Greek government then we... finance ministers welcomed “that the Greek authorities reiterated their general commitment to continue... the high levels of tax that Greek workers’ wages are subject to. Describing the tax wedge, which the OECD
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