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Montenegro's vaccination adventure: Lord, bless us with good health
Agora, with health and joy" (“Daj, Bože, zdravlja i radosti”) in one of her songs. Although this hit is now over.... The number of deaths since the beginning of the epidemic exceeded one thousand, and only..., when as many as 18 people died. Although one doesn’t have to be an expert in epidemiology to see
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Foreclosure bill undergoing final adjustments to satisfy creditors
EconomyProgrammeof the initial proposal put forward by the government with regard to strategic defaulters was one... is below 250,000 euros and they fulfil certain wealth criteria. One of those conditions... the ceiling would be set at 65,000 euros. According to the newspaper, the institutions want
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Lenders set out 49 milestones for Greece to meet before next bailout tranche
EconomyProgrammecommitments. Banks One of the most important tasks going forward is bank recapitalisation. A number of prior.... The current set of prior actions involves: 1) Integration into the Unified Auxiliary Insurance Fund (ETEA...-ministerial preparation of legislation Energy Although there is just one entry in the list of energy prior
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Mood sours as focus switches to next set of prior actions
PoliticsGreek Politics. It should be pointed out, though, that the creation of a task force to set up the new fund is one... for the economic plan, but attention is quickly shifting to the next set of prior actions that Greece... by State Minister Nikos Pappas, one of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s closest aides, that the Greek
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Kasselakis set to be excluded from SYRIZA leadership bid after row over assets
PoliticsGreek PoliticsStefanos Kasselakis’s bid to win back the leadership of SYRIZA looks set to be stymied by his... party over recent months. A row over the ousted leader’s personal wealth set in motion the process to block his candidacy in the leadership elections, while one of his leading critics has called for his
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Government pledges more reforms, but economy set to prove deciding factor in 2025
PoliticsGreek Politicsin Parapolitika weekly over the weekend, State Minister Akis Skertsos set out the government’s key aims... cut by one percentage point, equally shared between employers and employees. The gains, however... in Sunday’s To Vima suggests that one of the government’s main tasks in 2025 will be to close the gap
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Grappling with Europe's polycrisis
AgoraThings are so bad in the European Union that officials are using two Greek words, not just one... decades of forward movement, growing prosperity and ever-deeper peace, the grand design of fostering cross... Germany was one of the six signatories of the Treaty of Paris for the founding of the European Coal
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Troika review begins with fiscal targets and tax breaks in focus
EconomyMacroeconomyof 1.5 percent. The ministry is reportedly going to set its estimate for 2015 at 2.3 – 2.5 percent... ruling. c) Retaining the solidarity tax for at least one more year albeit with lower rates, according... sources, Kathimerini set out the government’s plan for tax breaks in 2015-16. For the next year
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Clock ticks on bailout review but big gaps remain between Greece, lenders
EconomyProgrammethat put the fiscal outcome of this year at risk. The first set of measures includes: a) imposition... delayed and it is not yet known when or if the tax will be implemented. The second set of suggested...) and other – as yet unspecified - revenue measures (110 million). The last set relates to cost savings
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PM prepares to set out policy agenda, SYRIZA gears up for leadership vote
PoliticsGreek Politicsto vulnerable households, although the PM did explain in a Facebook post that although Greece has one... to a total of 5 percent. Then there is a pledge to reduce contributions in the current term by one more... is expected to set out his structural reform agenda for New Democracy’s second four-year term
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