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Newsletter 343 - 24/06/2022
as the Fuel Pass. The latest initiative offers around 3 million Greeks the chance to claim up to 100... the budget. Clearly, the latest policies are being seen through the prism of possible snap elections.... The budget for next year will probably need to incorporate some of the tax reduction pledges of New
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Samaras expulsion casts shadow over New Democracy as SYRIZA prepares for leadership polls
PoliticsGreek PoliticsKostis Hatzidakis tabled the 2025 budget, which is due to be debated in Parliament in the second week... consider voting against the budget, commenting that, “anyone who knows [him] would never entertain... in 2019 in which over 100 people died. Both points were mainstays of New Democracy’s anti-SYRIZA campaign
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At sidelines of UNGA, Mitsotakis talks up Greece’s prospects as energy, tech hub
PoliticsGreek Politicscountry.” He credited primary and real budget surpluses for enabling tax cuts, middle-class support... eclipse 100 percent on windy, sunny days, the PM noted. Greece is courting investment in storage... a resurgence of “COVID urgency” in Europe: a bigger EU budget financed by joint borrowing to underwrite
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OECD report highlights stark contrasts in health system
Society-resourced. Greece has the lowest density of LTC workers (0.2 per 100 people aged 65+), no qualification... allocated 40 pct of its health budget to inpatient services - far above the OECD average of 28 pct. Spending on medical goods also consumed a hefty 30 pct of the budget, leaving less than 20 pct
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Newsletter 492 - 23/01/2026
in 2028. This week, the final budget execution data for December was released, showing tax revenues.... The overall balance recorded a small surplus of 100 million euros, outperforming the target by 2.7 billion euros. A study published by the Parliamentary Budget Office estimates that, under the new fiscal
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Newsletter 497 - 06/03/2026
budget remains intact. That budget was constructed on an oil price assumption of 62.4 dollars per..., could push prices to 100 or even 130 dollars. Such levels would force a political reckoning over
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Coalition's moves on public sector hirings under scrutiny
PoliticsGreek Politicsin this year’s budget. The increase is largely attributed to the larger amount of social security... Minister Pavlos Polakis said that the government has replaced contractors in catering, cleaning
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Authorities struggle with islanders' resistance to closed centres for migrants
PoliticsGreek Politicsbudget. Further procurement decisions will be announced in the coming week, with the aim... the contractors for bulldozing forested public land to build roads to one of the sites. Violence erupted
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Tsipras berates govt over treatment of pensioners
PoliticsGreek Politicsthis week by the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO), out of a total of 242,061 outstanding.... However, the introduction of almost 500 private-sector contractors does not seem to have contributed
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Newsletter 373 - 10/03/2023
push this year’s growth to 2 pct, from 1.6 pct in the budget baseline. This could settle any fiscal... Minister Kostas Karamanlis which relieved the network operator and its private contractors
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