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Newsletter 233 - 20/12/2019
Democracy has been buoyed by the fact that its tax cuts have not put this year’s fiscal course... in 2000 when the series began. It has remained around the level of 30 percent across recent years... a scheme to attract back professionals who had left Greece as part of the so-called brain drain
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Government braces for reaction to pension bill
PoliticsGreek Politicsand supplementary pensions put together by the National Actuarial Authority that will also... to the pension system since the crisis began more than a decade ago that would lead to retirement pay rising... will see their contributions increase. The Hellenic Confederation of Professionals, Craftsmen
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Tsipras to get election campaign underway as parties target middle class voters
PoliticsGreek Politicsspace available, especially after the government’s latest handouts. New Democracy has put forward... programme will focus on four pillars: The four pillars are Labour and Social Security, Welfare State
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Pension reform a precarious battleground for Tsipras and Mitsotakis
PoliticsGreek Politicsfrom labour unions and rival parties. His comment regarding the 2001 pension plan put forward... general elections. Mitsotakis also put forward some proposals regarding the pension reforms during... regard it as being even tougher than the one on the table now and closer to what the quadriga of lenders
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Discontent in SYRIZA simmers as Tsipras seeks to conclude talks with creditors
PoliticsGreek Politicspoll for Sunday’s To Vima put the conservatives on projected support of 31.4 percent versus 27 percent... to the final agreement with the quadriga is minimal, Tsipras’s tools for maintaining cohesion within his party... of the tender for new nationwide TV licences were put to public consultation.
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Proposals to reform primary health care draw first reactions
PoliticsGreek Politicsidentified as the Achilles heel of the public healthcare system. The solutions put forward, which... stakeholders as the consultation deadline approaches next week. The framework put forward revolves around... to cover the deficiencies of the public health service. An announcement put out by the union of EOPYY
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Newsletter 357 - 04/11/2022
hoped had been put to bed following the inconclusive parliamentary inquiry into the bugging... picked up on the latest allegations and tried to put PM Mitsotakis under new pressure by raising... that, contrary to recent reports, Intellexa – the Greek vendor of the Predator malware – has not left Athens
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Professional liars in pandemic times
AgoraAt a press conference following the inauguration of then-US President Donald Trump, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said, among other things, that it was the "largest audience to ever witness an inauguration in the history of the United States."...
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From the troika to the quartet
Agora), the newcomer making the quadriga, it would be Greece’s third macro-economic adjustment programme... not apply to any other member state. Put otherwise, when the future of Greece’s membership of the euro
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Passing of broadcasting bill introduces new challenges for coalition
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe visit of the quadriga as well as a new round of EU talks on the refugee crisis overshadowed the passing of legislation in Greek Parliament on Saturday that introduces new criteria for the issuing... that can be put to tender. The other key provisions of the legislation include: - Media companies need
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