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Newsletter 21 - 27/03/2015
that Greece may achieve a primary surplus of 1 percent of GDP this year if the government does... if they are on the one hand accusing it denying agreeing to the terms set out by lenders but on the other also... tobacco advertising in sport and journalists discovered that Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone
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ND prepares first three bills for votes before Parliament's summer recess
PoliticsGreek Politics’s 158 MPs would vote, but what policy agenda the centre-right party would set out over the three-day debate. The government is set to bring three bills to Parliament by August 10, when the House... is also set to contain a provision for the scrapping of the so-called university "asylum" law, which
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Govt looks for formula to re-start tourism as calls intensify for support of entertainment sector
PoliticsGreek Politicsbe right for Greek tourism to begin to open up from July 1. Mitsotakis is being lobbied heavily..., tourism confederation SETE and its 13 member organisations set out a number of demands, ranging.... SETE is also set to submit a set of proposed hygiene protocols for the hospitality sector
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Enhanced support package on way to combat inflation, as govt awaits crucial nod from EU
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe effects of the war in Ukraine on inflation. With the cost set to balloon over the coming weeks... finances. Subsidies on energy bills are set to continue in March at the same levels as February, which.... At the same time, following the new guidance from the EU, support for industry is also set to rise in April
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Can the Green Transition be just?
Agora, and shipping (from 2024 onwards). The ETS-2 will set a price for each ton of carbon dioxide emitted... levels). As illustrated in Figure 1, the EU-27 and Greece not only did not reduce but increased...% compared to 1990. Figure 1: The evolution of road transport emissions in the EU-27 and Greece
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Troika review begins with fiscal targets and tax breaks in focus
EconomyMacroeconomyof 1.5 percent. The ministry is reportedly going to set its estimate for 2015 at 2.3 – 2.5 percent... sources, Kathimerini set out the government’s plan for tax breaks in 2015-16. For the next year... for physical persons with the target set at 10 percentage points reduction over time. To Vima
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Greek leaders' contrasting visions all a blur
Agoraforth from SYRIZA, New Democracy and their supporters, the party’s two leaders have set out... be a shame under any circumstances, but especially as Greek leaders have started to set out plans... from 15 to 5 percent, a 30 percent cut in the ENFIA property tax over two years, reduction
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The positives and negatives that will decide Greece's elections
Agora. They are concerned that any complacency which may have set in because of the size of the ND victory...-nationalist Greek Solution, which gained almost 5 percent in the EU vote, and Yanis Varoufakis’s... for some time that there are broader themes at play, which look set to play a decisive part
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Mitsotakis banks on TIF marathon as debt claims draw opposition fire
PoliticsGreek Politicspackage, to be unveiled in Thessaloniki on September 5, is set to be finalised by the middle of next... by the reaction to Mitsotakis's announcement, in a Facebook post, that Greece is set to repay 13 bln... Ministry. Parastatidis said the court had found that criteria set by the Hellenic Authority for Higher
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Credit origination and transmission: Are Greek banks part of the problem or the solution?
Agoraon a two-year downward trajectory. As graph 1 below illustrates total lending to the real economy shows... a financial assistance package from the IMF, European Commission and the ECB in November 2010.[1... by the EFSF. At present domestic lenders use these highly rated bonds[5] as collateral, placing them
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