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Coalition poised to unveil pension reform proposals, hoping to avoid cuts
EconomyProgrammefor granting the national pension, which will be linked to GDP growth. 4) The (new) main pension...’ healthcare contributions to 6 percent (from 4 percent) for main pensions and to 6 percent (from zero
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Gov't submits reform plan that raises contributions and cuts future pensions
EconomyProgrammeof two parts, the national (fixed) and the contributory (variable) pension. 4) The national pension... for the supplementary funds increases by 1 percentage point (pp) to 4 percent for employers and by 0.5 pp
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Is Regling right to be concerned about Greek liquidity?
Agoramonths, highlighting that Greece has debt servicing obligations of about 4 billion euros over... needs approximately 4 billion euros to meet all debt obligations. The state budget foresees a primary
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Pension reform brings painful overhaul in social security contributions for self-employed
EconomyOne of the issues that emerged from the government’s draft plan on pension reform submitted to the institutions on January 4 relates to new method for calculating social security contributions... for supplementary, 6.95 percent for health and 4 percent for lump-sum. This brings the total SSC rate
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Mounting pension protests exert more pressure on coalition
PoliticsGreek Politicsplace on February 4. Given the nature of the pension reform proposals (increases in social security... that they have paid tax on the savings, which reportedly amount to about 4 billion euros in total
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Labour Ministry 2015 data shows increase in employment, marginal drop in average wage
Economythere were also 2,571 firms from the wider public sector that operate under private law. In addition 4... euros in 2015. The report showed 22.5 percent were part-timers, 4 out of 10 received a salary up
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Newsletter 62 - 12/02/2016
percent of GDP, Greece needs to take measures in the order of some 4–5 percent of GDP (up to 8.8 billion... government, which recently marked its first anniversary in power. During the February 4 general
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Newsletter 66 - 11/03/2016
CPI was mainly driven by a decrease in housing prices by 4.7 percent, followed by transport (-4... and restaurants (+2.6 percent). Housing and transport saw drops of over 4 percent. 2 One for one, none for all... of sending back asylum seekers en masse to Turkey, a country that neither properly recognises them
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Greek tourism's long-term growth prospects are good, report shows
EconomyMacroeconomyeconomic report of the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC). The long-term forecast points to a 4... long-term growth of around 4 percent in 2016-26 stands slightly lower than the world average
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Pension and income tax reform bill sets out 4.4 bln in new measures
EconomyProgrammeprivate and public pensioners – 222 million. 4) Cut in the dividends paid to public pensioners – 208.... 4) Increase in the insured income ceiling – 25 million.
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