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Catering and entertainment businesses chafe at vaccination status rules
PoliticsGreek PoliticsBusinesses are reacting to the latest raft of Covid-19 measures announced by the Greek government... complain that the measures place an unfair burden on businesses by asking them to verify customers... measures could follow the pattern of anti-smoking laws, which have for years been resisted and ignored
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EC summer forecast sees growth edging up to 4.3 pct, driven by RRF
EconomyMacroeconomy. The Commission notes that as restrictive measures began to be relaxed in May, several sentiment indicators... on tourism, which is seen under the 2019 levels this year and in 2022. The emergency measures... an area of concern as support measures get phased out. This withdrawal needs to be carefully timed
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ELSTAT survey finds 2013 household budgets devastated, inequality persists
Societypercent posted in 2012. Austerity measures with further salary and pension cuts and tax hikes resulted... of 31.3 percent. The survey unveiled that the impact of austerity measures was less pronounced
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Greece's Parliament Budget Office sees lack of post-bailout plan
EconomyMacroeconomyby specific measures, timetables or explanations. The PBO says the government’s main aim must be to focus on growth through innovation and greater productivity. The panel says that some government measures
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Greece: Where did it all go wrong?
Agoraon its pledge to consider “certain debt reduction measures” even though a Greek primary surplus had... agreeing to the measures demanded by the troika. Cool heads did not prevail in New Democracy either
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Coalition wants to push own bills through as well as negotiate with lenders
PoliticsGreek Politicsand includes measures such as providing free healthcare to the uninsured. On December 23... new rules on the awarding of public contracts, strengthening the measures against fuel smuggling
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Gov't offers improved terms to farmers in bid to break deadlock
Economy, Tsipras presented to farmers a set of social insurance and tax measures that aim to ease some of the burden placed on them by the original plan set out by the government. Among the new measures presented
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Athens and creditors edge closer on tax and pensions but gap remains on NPLs
EconomyProgrammeis due to meet on Friday with the mission chiefs to discuss the fiscal measures required for the next three years to meet the primary surplus target of 3.5 percent of GDP in 2018. These include measures
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Greece expects review to be completed by May 1 despite IMF objections
EconomyProgrammeareas of disagreement. The non-paper says that 2.6 billion euros worth of measures out of a total... that certain measures will not be implemented if the economy performs better than expected. The ministry
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Greek ministers still hopeful of reaching deal with creditors this month
Economyfiscal measures yielding 1 percent of GDP each. However, he did not comment or provide any detail.... However, he refrained from providing any detail on the mix of the three measures. Commenting
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