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Government on mission to manage expectations in anticipation of tough winter
PoliticsGreek Politicsin for the first month of operation of the new electricity subsidy scheme, the cost of supporting customer’s bills... is now clearly showing a concern with managing the escalating political cost that would come from... with touring the country over the summer with the message that their concerns about the cost-of-living
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Govt puts focus on handouts, migration to take heat off surveillance affair
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat the government will be able to not only offer reassurance of support against the cost-of-living... prices which are expected to drive up the cost of any support measures over the coming months. According to the last estimates by the Finance Ministry, the cost to the budget of absorbing the expected
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Athens pins hopes on pan-European solution for energy crisis, as surveillance affair unfolds
PoliticsGreek Politicssolution is on the way to help with the skyrocketing cost of the government’s energy subsidy... unit price hitting 0.788 euros per KWh. The rise pushed up the total cost of government subsidies on customer’s bills to over 1.9 billion euros just for the month of September. While some of this cost
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Newsletter 350 - 09/09/2022
will take over the coming months to ease the cost-of-living crisis, hoping that these interventions... that will be received positively by households that are struggling with the rising cost of daily... could cost the budget more than 10 billion euros, when Greece has already allocated the largest
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Policy pledges bolster top two parties as ND erases losses from surveillance affair
PoliticsGreek Politicstapping scandal, which they regard as a distraction from the government’s work tackling the cost..., after the publication of October’s retail electricity tariffs reduced the cost of the support package... it was a flat 63.9 cents. Overall, the monthly cost of the measure has fallen by about 40 pct, from 1.9
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Newsletter 353 - 30/09/2022
been largely eclipsed by the deepening cost-of-living crisis and stifled by a lack of media focus on the subject. For the time being, the electorate seems more focussed on the cost of living crisis... of spending highlights the impact the cost-of-living and energy crises will have on this year’s family
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Newsletter 354 - 07/10/2022
the cost of bills for consumers. By the end of this year, spending on energy subsidies will have... outperformance and the main contributor is the cost-of-living crisis as inflation pushed up prices... in the energy crisis, contributing 7.46 billion euros, leading to an actual budget fiscal cost of 4.66
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Tsipras calls for more state intervention in energy sector as hopes for EU solution dwindle
PoliticsGreek Politicsby criticising the Commission for prioritising compromise over solidarity and pushing the cost... betrays the nervousness felt in Athens over the ballooning cost of energy support measures... the cost of its support package, the bulk of which comes from reclaiming the profits of energy companies
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ND hangs on to lead but decisive election victory hangs in balance
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDespite growing public concern about the worsening cost-of-living crisis, opposition parties... they trust him to handle cost-of-living increases, and 43 pct consider him the best candidate to deal... is likely to help their household. Despite SYRIZA attacking the government’s record on the cost of living
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Newsletter 356 - 21/10/2022
tactic of providing households with subsidies rather than tackling the cost of energy by lowering VAT... to citizens rather than bringing the cost down via other interventions is a tactic that is more likely..., and backing for a common EU purchasing facility for natural gas financed by Eurobonds. Although the cost
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