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Mitsotakis earns space to govern with big win, Tsipras limits damage
PoliticsGreek PoliticsSolution on 3.7 percent and MeRA25 on 3.48 percent. Far-right Golden Dawn looked set to miss out... for, the result was close to the target that would have been set by Mitsotakis. However... majority in Parliament for New Democracy, which is set to claim 158 of the 300 seats. This means
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Complex privatisation fund faces tall order to reduce Greek debt
EconomyOn top of the fiscal measures yielding 3 percent of GDP by 2018, one of the key prior actions for the conclusion of Greece’s first programme involves the establishment of a new privatisation fund. This was envisaged in the Eurozone Summit statement of l...
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Officials order wider use of masks as upward trend for Covid-19 cases continues
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe use of face masks for debates in Parliament became compulsory on Wednesday as Greek authorities try to re-instill a sense of caution in the public after seeing the number of coronavirus cases rise significantly this week. The decision to make MPs an...
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Newsletter 62 - 12/02/2016
, though, was his statement that in order to achieve a medium-term primary surplus target of 3.5 percent of GDP, Greece needs to take measures in the order of some 4–5 percent of GDP (up to 8.8 billion... euros etc. The income ceiling would be set at 55,000 euros, where a 5 percent discount would apply
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Greece and the euro: The flight of Icarus
Agoraduring this crisis has been of the highest order, providing insight into a complex problem, but some... version of what has happened in Greece in order to support their preconceived ideas about fiscal... management team but instead got a set of politicians that flew even closer to the burning sun. 2004
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Much ground to cover as Greece, lenders prepare to resume talks
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreece and its lenders are due to resume on Saturday negotiations aimed at agreeing a set... and that the Greek side still believes it is being asked to yield too far in order to secure more... Panousis had publicly called on Tsipras to give the order for the occupation of Athens University’s main
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Can the Green Transition be just?
Agora, and shipping (from 2024 onwards). The ETS-2 will set a price for each ton of carbon dioxide emitted... Union has decided to include them in an emissions trading scheme. Furthermore, in order..., at least initially, was set up to be independent of the ETS-1 with distinct carbon prices
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Newsletter 23 - 17/04/2015
. This has left the new government, which is still unable to agree on a set of reforms to unlock further funding, desperately short of cash. In order to cover its international and domestic obligations... that in order to pay salaries, pensions and lenders, the government has held back on payments
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Greece is gasping for a deal
Agorapayments. This has left the new government, which is still unable to agree on a set of reforms to unlock further funding, desperately short of cash. In order to cover its international and domestic... has been that in order to pay salaries, pensions and lenders, the government has held back
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Newsletter 35 - 17/07/2015
Minister Alexis Tsipras delaying an expected reshuffle, which will set the tone for the domestic political... parliamentary group, which has crossed numerous “red lines” to support unpopular measures in order... of pensioners waiting in the July heat to gain access to a bank branch in order to collect parts
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