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Newsletter 91 - 07/10/2016
for the debt-to-GDP ratio stands at 184.7 percent in 2017, almost 10 percentage points higher than... it possible for more than half of taxpayers to avoid exceeding the threshold, in particular farmers, fixed... in order to avoid paying due taxes. They are essentially freeriding on the back of their overburdened
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Stournaras outlines conditions for strong 2017 growth, calls for debt relief measures soon
EconomyMacroeconomyimportant issues that should be tackled timely and effectively in order to confirm the positive economic.... As a result, travel receipts from the UK made up less than 12 percent of total travel revenues in July from more than 17 percent in the corresponding period last year. The tourism-related activities
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New Democracy seeks higher ground in escalating TV permits row
PoliticsGreek Politicsit won less than 60,000 votes (1.04 percent). Polydoras, a former public order minister and former..., which set the ceiling at four) and that the cost of each permit should be the same (rather than
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Tsakalotos sticks to guns as review compromise remains elusive
PoliticsGreek Politicsin order to facilitate an agreement between the International Monetary Fund and the European lenders... concessions on debt relief rather than demanding Athens give in on issues such as labour reforms... measure than reducing the surplus targets,” he said. His comments suggest that Greece and its creditors
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Mitsotakis marks first year at ND helm by emphasising tax cut goals
PoliticsGreek Politicsis prepared to go against the wishes of Greece’s lenders in order to reduce taxes if he becomes prime minister... if he could show greater ownership of such a scheme than previous administrations. When he set out his... the New Democracy leader would make a better prime minister than Alexis Tsipras, who garnered the backing
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Waste management remains Greece's biggest environmental challenge, says EU
SocietyAlong with Cyprus, Greece recycled just short than a fifth of municipal rate in 2014, jointly the third lowest rate in the EU and less than half the EU average, a new environmental implementation... shifting taxes from labour to the environment in order to deal with such problems, such as addressing
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Lenders' proposal not yet enough to convince Athens, banish snap poll option
PoliticsGreek PoliticsEuropean director, Poul Thomsen, that Greek pensioners are better off than their German counterparts... of principle, rather than his previous insistence that it would not accept “a single euro” in new... feels he needs some kind of commitment on this issue from the eurozone in order to offset
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Athens waits for Moscovici visit, eyes debt relief and lower volume of measures
PoliticsGreek Politicsthan 7,000 euros from its current level of just above 8,600) and possibly avoid the upfront... stance in the negotiations in order to concede as little as possible to secure an agreement. He.... It is hoping that the 3.5 percent primary surplus will not have to be maintained for more than three years
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New attempt to get Cyprus talks back on track
PoliticsForeign Policyready to engage in a new round of talks, which have been stalled for more than a month. Speaking... and Turkish Cypriots have no other choice than to cooperate" and to discuss a solution. "No solution... to persuade the Turkish Cypriots not to use the Cyprus Parliament vote as an excuse in order to abstain
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Concerns over energy deregulation add to challenges Tsipras faces
PoliticsGreek Politics’s electricity production units in order for the review to close after originally hoping... to the government than the unionists. The fact that there are five MPs in the group means that it would... threshold. The minister said that the positive aspects of the agreement would more than make up
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