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Opposition lines up motions against government over Tempe
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPressure on the government is set to ratchet up a notch after opposition PASOK announced... on public debt on Wednesday to set out his party’s line of attack against the government, using newly..., with Tassoulas set to be approved by a narrow margin; however, the resurgence of interest in Tempe could
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Government presents rail safety improvements as ex-ministers face possible Tempe inquiry
PoliticsGreek Politicsconference, where Alternate Transport Minister Konstantinos Kyranakis set out a range... identified the improvement of rail safety as an urgent matter for his government. Mitsotakis set 2027... procedure now is for Parliament to hold a vote on whether to set up a preliminary investigation, whose
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Newsletter 493 - 06/02/2026
. The government has identified a compact set of articles it wants to open for revision rather than... as a programme of institutional reform. It allows New Democracy to set the agenda, test public... set the terms of repayment - including the applicable interest rate and schedule - so that borrowers
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Release of refugees creates new difficulties for minister
PoliticsGreek Politicsstated that refugees housed in apartments and hotels would be given a grace period to transition... recognised refugees have received assistance through the programme, with 757 apartments being used to house... by Iraqis (22 percent). However, experts have pointed out that the provision of apartments is not enough
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Greece and the euro: The flight of Icarus
Agoramanagement team but instead got a set of politicians that flew even closer to the burning sun. 2004... in Greece and salaries for under-25s are actually set below what is considered to be the poverty line... this, with the younger members of its society being the ones who set aside the folly and failure
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With troika OK pending, 2014 budget sees primary surplus at 1.6 pct of GDP
EconomyMacroeconomy. On the debt front, gg debt is set to slightly ease to 320.0 billion (174.8 percent of GDP) in 2014 from... percent stake in DESFA to Azeri SOCAR (188 million). The target for 2014 was set at 3.56 billion without... to Athens in early December with the target set by both sides to reach a final agreement until the next
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With prior actions pending, PASOK showing signs of adjustment fatigue
PoliticsGreek Politics. The first set of prior actions are: 1) adoption of outdoor trade law 2) adoption of investment.... The second set consists of: 1) adoption of the necessary legislation to merge all... to tell his eurozone counterparts on Thursday that the first set of prior actions will be completed
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Unpaid taxes keep rising, tax audits short of targets
EconomyMacroeconomytax debt of 1 billion by the end of June. The same target of 1 billion has also been set... taxes due, underperforming the full year target set at 50 percent. On tax audits and collections... temporary audits correspond to 73.9 percent of total. The full target is set at 65 percent, implying
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Sudden jump in unpaid taxes last month takes total to almost 70 bln
EconomyMacroeconomythat the first-half target of legacy debt collections of 1 billion set by the Ministry of Finance (MoF... year, the target has been set at 25 percent, with the year to date rate at just over half the target... a weak performance in July, yet they remain well below the annual targets. Those targets were set
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ECB stress tests and what they will mean for Greek banks
Economyprovisions. A capital benchmark of Common Equity Tier 1 (CET1) of 8 percent was set for this pillar... was set at CET1 of 8 percent for the baseline and 5.5 percent for the adverse scenario. The aggregate... on banks’ static balance sheet at the end of 2013. However, the ECB is due to release another set of data
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