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Tsipras sets target of trouble-free bailout review so debt relief talks can begin
PoliticsGreek Politicsattempted to set a positive tone at their first cabinet meetings but later found it difficult to meet the targets they set. The main points Tsipras made to his ministers were: - Their performance... the settlement of non-performing loans, extending the protection of primary residences from foreclosure
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New Democracy seeks higher ground in escalating TV permits row
PoliticsGreek Politics, which set the ceiling at four) and that the cost of each permit should be the same (rather than... to escape the “decay” being caused by the current government. The stage is now set for an almighty... allowing banks to foreclose on some main residences. His relationship with the party had already
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Newsletter 189 -11/01/2018
to take place on Friday evening. The two leaders are set to decide on how to handle the potential... votes, it would mean that there would be no pressure on the prime minister to set in motion..., adopting a new framework for the protection of primary residences to replace the Katseli law
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Mitsotakis delivers major tax-cut package as he seeks to stay course for another term
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has presented a long-anticipated and much-advertised set of tax... “personal difference”, with complete abolition set for 2027. Landlords earning 12,000–24,000 euros now...% for higher incomes. ENFIA on primary residences in villages with less than 1,500 inhabitants will be reduced
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Government moves on fire compensation as opposition sharpens its questions
PoliticsGreek Politicselectronic applications and tracking, is set to be voted by the end of August. The banking sector has.... PASOK has followed up with a more detailed set of questions to the government on prevention... or reconstruction costs for both primary and secondary residences. An emergency grant of up to 6,000 euros
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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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Tsipras sticks to pre-election pledges as eurozone negotiations loom
PoliticsGreek PoliticsFund in March. Beyond that, Tsipras stuck to his pre-election line, as set out in the Thessaloniki.... Tsipras also set out plans to tackle corruption and tax evasion but did not provide great detail... and selling one of the government’s three airplanes. The tone and content of Tsipras’s speech
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Parliament's bailout probe has potential to be politically toxic
PoliticsGreek PoliticsParliament is set to discuss in the next few days (possibly on Monday) a proposal by SYRIZA and Independent Greeks MPs to set up an inquiry into the circumstances in which Greece signed up to both... Pavlopoulos, who was interior minister in Karamanlis’s government and one of the former New Democracy’s
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New prior actions may prove obstacle as Athens talks intensify
PoliticsGreek Politicstime may be needed for there to be an agreement. One of the key problems is whether the government will have to pass a third set of prior actions before the agreement is sealed. Athens insists... set of prior actions when it became clear the farmers' taxation in particular was causing
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