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Government faces pushback on labour law amid lukewarm response to tax cuts
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat Greek workers already put in long hours, citing OECD figures which put the annual figure at 1,886 hours... undermining the government’s own initiatives to tackle the demographic crisis by making it harder
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Two hurdles left for coalition this year before bigger challenges in 2014
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreece’s coalition has two more hurdles to clear before it stumbles over the finishing line at the end of the year, exhausted and battered but not quite yet beaten. The first challenge is to pass the new property tax, which unites previous disparate levies in one charge, through Parliament. The new
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First round of local elections leave Greek politics finely balanced
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDemocracy’s incumbent Vassilis Michaloliakos was beaten into second place by independent Yiannis Moralis
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Samaras shoots, Samaras scores!
Agora“Samaras rescues Greece” – it’s the headline the prime minister and many in his office would have cherished. But Giorgos Samaras, the striker without a club, has beaten premier Antonis to the title of saviour thanks to his injury time penalty on Wednesday, which ushered Greece into the second round
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Wages index edges up YoY in Q1 after sinking by 24.8 pct since 2010
EconomyMacroeconomybeaten by that of Cyprus (-7.9 percent). In addition, Greece and Cyprus are the only two countries
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Increased revenues push Greek budget primary surplus up to 2.28 bln at end of July
EconomyMacroeconomyand means that the primary surplus target was beaten by 1.48 billion euros. The fiscal performance
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Tsipras softens stance on coalition options as leaders head to debate
PoliticsGreek Politicsmessages and that Meimarakis has beaten him to this particular political ground. Voters will get
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Tsipras faces heavy lifting to finalise deal and get party approval
PoliticsGreek Politicssurplus target is beaten. On the issue of fiscal goals, Tzanakopoulos called on Berlin to temper its
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Athens braces for return of lenders, discussion about measures
PoliticsGreek Politics. “If the annual fiscal target is seen being missed or beaten, the positive fiscal measures will be increased
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Institutions back in Athens to resume review, agree new measures
EconomyProgrammebeing missed or beaten, the positive fiscal measures will be increased or contained accordingly,” he
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