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  1. OECD sees 3.3 bln euros of savings Greece can make by cutting red tape

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) released a report on May 15 identifying 3.3 billion euros worth of burdensome regulations in 13 sectors weighing on businesses each year. Over three-quarters of these costs accrue in three...

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  2. Clash over refugees in central Athens prompts warnings of far-right resurgence
    Photo by Gerasimos Domenikos/Fosphotos

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    , “pitting one (disadvantaged group) against the other” and “stoking a civil war” between these groups.

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  3. PM cautious about extending compulsory vaccinations
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    or face being suspended from work without pay would cause too much disruption and would risk pitting New

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  4. Revival of Mitsotakis-Tsipras rivalry points to future developments on political scene
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    Greece’s growth model, pitting a centre-left agenda of wealth redistribution and targeted public

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  5. Newsletter 175 -21/09/2018

    Newsletters

    that cutting pensions now would also be damaging for the economic recovery as it would take money away from... that cutting pension spending by 1 percent of GDP from January, a few months before the general... for the self-employed, cutting the VAT rate in the food service sector from 24 to 13 percent before

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  6. Parties' competing tax pledges come up against challenging reality

    EconomyFeatures

    of a compulsory leg and a conditional one. Greece has committed in advance to cutting the personal... of expansionary counter-measures of equal value. These measures consisted of cutting the base tax rate... growth with business-friendly policies, but also plans to raise 2 billion euros from cost-cutting

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  7. What is the state of play with Greek banks?

    Economy

    , other cost cutting initiatives, lower funding cost and disposal of non-core assets will also... on net interest income in the next quarters. Cost cutting is the second positive factor on the pre

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  8. Newsletter 58 - 15/01/2016

    Newsletters

    . The government strongly insists on increasing revenues rather than cutting costs (i.e. pensions... of preferences is a near impossible task. It is made more complicated by the fact that the IMF sees cutting

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  9. Newsletter 108 - 24/02/2017

    Newsletters

    percent reduction in the ENFIA property tax, cutting VAT on electricity bills from 13 to 6 percent..., may be lowered below the 6,000-euros mark, entailing cutting the tax credit down to 1,300 euros

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  10. Labour market reforms did exactly what they were supposed to
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    Agora

    , cutting private wages would have increased income inequality across the society. However, private... translate into lower labour costs in 2011, Greece’s lenders wanted to accelerate the reduction by cutting

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