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  1. Could Greece's immigration reforms have an impact on upcoming elections?
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    of the total resident population at the time. More than half were Albanian citizens (52.7 percent... of citizenships acquired by foreign nationals, granting only 1,896 citizenships, less than 0.2 per... rejection rate. One in four applications from this group were rejected in 2018, up from less than 4

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  2. Mitsotakis appeals to centre-ground voters in bid to score decisive victory
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    that if his party wins with a difference of more than 3.5 points (the gap SYRIZA had over ND in the 2014... polls suggest that more than 10 percent of voters are undecided. It is this audience that Mitsotakis... of voters is giving substantial attention to the law and order issue. A recent spate of attacks

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  3. Tsipras steps in to limit damage, Mitsotakis eyes tax cuts and fiscal targets
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    than any of their predecessors. While the second claim may be open to debate, it is clear that SYRIZA... is in order to deliver pre-election favours, has hampered SYRIZA’s effort to mount a comeback after..., the opposition party has probably promised more in the form of tax cuts than the government, plus

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  4. BoG awaits go-ahead from DG Comp over NPL scheme
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    from the European Commission’s DG Comp in order to start operating. HFSF scheme Another scheme... sooner than BoG’s plan. DG Comp in Brussels has been examining the HFSF plan because the bid... to more than 9 percent of the principal portfolio amount and is capital accretive to NBG (based on Q1

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  5. Govt proposes property VAT reduction to kickstart home sales

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    in order to kick-start the country’s stagnant property market. This would bring more than 100,000 unsold... the numbers for 2018 picked up, they were still around 85 percent lower than that for 2005, and the majority of the projects concerned involved refurbishments rather than new builds. Property sales

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  6. ND looks to asylum bill, strong rhetoric to ease pressure from migration flows

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    in the flow, with reports suggesting more than 500 people arrived in dinghies on Lesvos since Tuesday... with Turkey in order to deter migrants from crossing. Concerned that it is now also facing a high number... that Greece is facing a migration, rather than refugee, crisis and that most of the arrivals

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  7. Amid hiring controversy, ND focusses on new round of tax cuts in latest bill
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    controversy. The bill was tabled late on Tuesday after more than a dozen changes were made to the draft.... One-off debts, such as inheritance tax, can be paid off in up to 48 instalments, rather than... or other electronic payments) in order to qualify for the tax-free threshold. Responding

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  8. Pension bill to be unveiled as govt prepared for fifth post-MoU review
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    this week and even though the upcoming review is set to be less stressful than previous ones... conditions, in order to exclude strategic defaulters. The government plans to kick-start the discussion... will have higher growth rates than initially thought. He added that the government has already made

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  9. Newsletter 242 -06/03/2020

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    that it expects Greece’s economy to grow by 2.54 percent this year under the baseline scenario, lower than... as mentioned is already lower than the government’s forecast of 2.8 percent. Under the second adverse scenario, GDP growth could come to 1.9 percent in 2020, almost a full percentage point lower than

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  10. Digital investments could provide long-term GDP boost, study finds

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    of information and communication technology (ICT) human capital. Greece’s ICT sector is less than half... a new Ministry for Digital Governance. In order for Greece to develop its digital sector successfully... firms report having increased the number of employees in the last three years, compared to less than

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