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Greece braces for Middle East fallout as polls show ND holding firm despite voter unease
PoliticsGreek Politicsnot a crisis‑driven intervention, the government is keen to highlight its wider impact: higher pay
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Piraeus eyes major NPE deal as banks remain focused on bad loans
EconomyMacroeconomythe best capitalised bank in Greece, with total capital ratio at 19 percent. In a statement... the economy to normalcy, positive sentiment has sprung from the fact that international bidders have shown... the two contenders, submitted non-binding bids which are being evaluated by Piraeus Bank. The preferred
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FM rallies opposition to Turkey-Libya deal as Athens prepares for EastMed signing
PoliticsForeign Policyfrom Ankara’s side, especially following the signing of two memoranda with Libya. In this context... announcement said that talks centred on the situation in Libya and prospects of ending the civil
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Greece, Turkey launch new round of talks as Libya sea deal casts shadow
PoliticsForeign PolicyForeign Minister Nikos Dendias is due in Brussels on Monday to attend the General Affairs Council which will focus, among other things, on the ongoing developments in Libya. According to media... in Libya on November 29, 2019. The inclusion of the memorandum’s sea zone maps in the UN's database
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Labour bill controversy dents plans for announcements of new measures in Sep
PoliticsGreek Politicsthem to fire the worker during that period without having to pay compensation or being bound by any... already legislated for pay rises in the civil service from January, along with increases in pensions... contributions. There are 10,168 individual and 16,839 companies that owe a total of 142.6 billion
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Insurgent campaign from Kasselakis puts shock SYRIZA leadership win in touching distance
PoliticsGreek Politicswas the high participation in the leadership election. A total of 147,000 votes were cast, meaning that more...US-based entrepreneur Stefanos Kasselakis has sprung a major surprise by coming from virtually... to the point that he now stands a good chance of winning the party leadership on Sunday – a prospect
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Newsletter 51 - 12/11/2015
in covering their total capital needs of 14.4 billion. At the same time, the banks announced the results... on the evening of November 12 and bondholders of around 1 billion of the total tendered 1.09 billion are believed to have accepted the voluntary offer. Since the bank’s total capital needs (under
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Athens pleased with Washington talks despite lack of definitive US position on Turkey
PoliticsForeign Policyactions in the East Med and Libya. The Greek government has many times since Tuesday tried to play down... replied: “when you're talking about Libya, we're discussing with President Erdogan, we're discussing... talked about that subject specifically — Libya and what's going on. We'll be talking to Russia
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Stournaras in firing line for arguing Greeks can pay more taxes
PoliticsGreek Politicsand indirect taxes should increase, in fact what he meant was that Greeks as a whole do not pay enough tax. He... had already been done. His original comment was interpreted as a suggestion that Greeks should pay... Antonis Samaras described 2013 as the worst year on record in terms of the taxes Greeks had to pay
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Newsletter 3 - 14/11/2014
. It also expressed its opposition to a law passed last month allowing taxpayers to pay off their debts to the state, which now total about 85 billion euros, in up to 100 instalments. The new legislation... allowing taxpayers to pay off their overdue taxes in up to 100 instalments will create an additional
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