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Government tables 2016 budget, upgrades GDP forecasts but leaves fiscal estimates unchanged
EconomyMacroeconomyin income tax and a double digit growth (32.1 percent) of property taxes. Indirect taxes are forecasted... (1.3 billion), development of Hellenikon (345 million), sale of real estate and shares (277 million
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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.... Competing with the likes of a resurgent German economy meant it had to be competitive on all levels
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Mitsotakis mixes old hands and technocrats to stamp reformist bent on cabinet
PoliticsGreek Politicsexperienced ministers in key posts and backing them up with a layer of specialists underneath. While... watch as public order minister in Costas Simitis’s government, and his appointment will help bolster Mitstokis’s image as someone who’s serious about law and order. Chrisochodis’s beefed-up ministry
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Newsletter 369 - 10/02/2023
the legislation but accused the government of not being flexible at all. The main opposition party fears... about SYRIZA’s stance on these matters. Opinion polls have shown that of all policy areas, voters... of previous years. He also promised to raise the tax-free threshold to 10,000 euros and to double rent
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The challenge in Greece: Funding an emerging economic recovery
Agoraquarter this year. That is indeed a significant piece of good news, all the more when considering.... After 25 consecutive quarters of negative GDP figures, dating all the way back to 2008 in the pre... to highlight them in order to spoil the part; quite the contrary in fact. Any evidence of economic recovery
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Tsipras, against all odds
Agora, populism or hucksterism. Even minutes before the vote on Sunday, Tsipras was scheming his schemes in order... Independent Greeks) for 2017 and 2018 in order to save almost 120 million euros was shelved. He also cast
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Talks on Macedonia name issue to be ramped up but Kammenos unmoved
PoliticsForeign Policyissue, Matthew Nimetz met with the negotiators of the two countries just three years after his last... placed the Western Balkans at the top of their foreign policy agendas in order to secure political.... Nikos Kotzias and his FYROM counterpart Nikola Dimitrov have already met more than three times
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Greek-Turkish tensions flare over Turkey’s bid to join SAFE
PoliticsForeign Policyanother layer of strain to Greek-Turkish relations, just weeks after the postponement of a planned..., Libya, and Egypt, according to Kathimerini. Boulos, who met with Mitsotakis last September, is said
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Mitsotakis on offensive over Macedonia name deal after Zaev comments
PoliticsGreek PoliticsParliament. “New Democracy will vote against the agreement and we call on all parties and all MPs to do the same,” he added. “After all, this is what the majority of Greeks demand.” The centre-right... agreement when he met in Athens on Tuesday with Slovenian President Borut Pahor. “We
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Greece offers to assist in Gaza humanitarian effort
PoliticsForeign PolicyRamallah, where he met with his counterpart Riyad al-Maliki, and was received by Palestinian Prime Minister, Mohammad Shtayyeh. Gerapetritis then met with his Israeli counterpart, Eli Cohen to brief.... “My feeling is that, due to our significant diplomatic capital, we always play a crucial role. All
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