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Tsipras calls snap elections after heavy defeat that puts ND on course for clear majority
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe European Parliament vote by around 9 percentage points, which was a much wider margin than SYRIZA...). This gap of more than 9 points was at the outer edge of what opinion polls had indicated over the last... missed three key targets in these elections, which were to get more than 25 percent of the vote
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Newsletter 211 -21/06/2019
to sit through the summer and that in September an important package of draft legislation would be put... than 70 percent) are standing for the first time. Their average age is 49 and 43 percent are women.... The employment balance was positive in Μay with 105,284 more hirings than departures, data from the Labour
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Tax cuts spearhead Mitsotakis's message in Thessaloniki
PoliticsGreek Politicsthan being included in the 2020 budget being drafted by the Finance Ministry. One of the most...’ reservations) at around 8,500 euros, and the income tax rate for those earning less than 10,000 euros... than expected on reducing the ENFIA property tax by an average of 22 percent for homeowners. Mitsotakis
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S&P raises Greek rating to 'BB-' on reduced fiscal risks, lifting of capital controls
Economygovernment debt represents less than 20 percent of total debt, or less than 40 percent of GDP. Additionally... is the portion of permanent jobs in the labour market as since 2018 and into 2019 more than half... management company has been put on hold. In the agency’s view, if those proposals move to implementation
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Spree of media deals puts spotlight back on ownership issues
Societyput a big question mark over SYRIZA’s next raft of interventions in the media landscape, which... UCITS, which are themselves subject to shareholder concentration rules, rather than to privately held... to be lower in Greece than in pretty much any country in the world. A 2018 Pew Research report found
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Poll shows support for ND in several policy areas as pension bill debate heats up
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe pension bill, which the government put to public consultation last week, will be among the main... and freelancers would have to pay under the new system would be higher than under the scheme... than the current 60 percent, someone who is insured for one job will not have to pay a second set
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Newsletter 252 -29/05/2020
than apply for the government’s SURE-backed employment support scheme. In his response to SYRIZA... one unit of NPE reduction is lower via the bad bank than via securitisations. Stournaras is reportedly... effective it would be. He proposed that the bad bank be prepared and put in front of the government
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Newsletter 260 -31/07/2020
rather than design. In response to increased activity from the Turkish fleet in Aksaz and Izmir... and there was broad backing for the decision to stand up to Turkey. There was also an effort to put on an outward... for the award is much less than the 3.9 billion euros estimated originally. The government has made the savings
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Greece prepares to relax lockdown amid concerns about toll on economy
PoliticsGreek Politicsof intubated patients has fallen substantially since the peak of more than 600 in the autumn. On Thursday... stood at 328. The latest data confirms that Attica, rather than Thessaloniki, is the current epicentre... for Alpha TV put KINAL on 6.5 pct, with SYRIZA on 20 and New Democracy on 38.6 pct. In her interview
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Newsletter 290 - 26/03/2021
to the government’s plans. By Thursday, there were more than 700 patients with the coronavirus in ICU... of threats and recriminations after a call for 200 volunteers yielded fewer than 70. Some private... percent of 2019 tourism revenues in 2021, and such a development is likely to put them further out
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