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Tsipras seeks to build political capital from "positive" measures
PoliticsGreek Politicsand New Democracy would be forced to approve each one separately. This underlined that apart from hoping... aims to put the opposition, particularly New Democracy, in as difficult a position as possible. One... bringing to Parliament one by one the measures of the ‘fourth MoU,’ which I dedicate to Mr Mitsotakis
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Tsipras wins confidence vote, has to repeat trick in ballot on name deal
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAgreement. It had been expected that four of To Potami’s six MPs (Danellis being one of them) would... group. As a result, one of the options reportedly being considered is for To Potami to abstain or vote... of the centre-left alliance led by PASOK. It is not clear if Tsipras could then find at least one more
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Newsletter 195 -22/02/2019
surveillance period. One eurozone official told Reuters that the report “is likely to say that Greece has... it has pledged. One of those is the divestment of the Public Power Corporation’s (PPC) lignite units... that one of SYRIZA’s strongest cards has been its argument that it is untainted compared to its
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Bad news
Agora, the local media was correct to lead with this story. There was only one problem: Tsakalotos never said... appearing online in Greece, one site after the other snapped it up, including the country’s largest... the title and the leading paragraphs, while one even suggested that the finance minister’s garbled
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Going for Growth: What next for Greece's economy and banks?
Agora, as disclosed by the OECD[11], and this is one the clearest problems for the country, it’s economy... management sectors, both underdeveloped at present when one considers that Greece presently has 52 asset... at marketing itself to tourists to visit/fall in love with it, and yet only have one decent sized
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Tsipras hammers out dividing lines, trumpets battle with 'elite'
PoliticsGreek Politicsgovernance, distilling the challenge faced by his party into a binary “Us vs Them” struggle. One... his vision for the EP vote through the prism of national politics. “On the one side is the revived.... “They will have to drink the bitter cups one by one,” added the prime minister. “First
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Newsletter 200 -29/03/2019
, the government announced that it was making a change to one of the key thresholds. Meanwhile... at 65,000 euros and for the immobile assets to have a maximum value of 260,000 euros. This is one... incorporated into the 2019 figures so as to cover one-off payments under the law 4575/2018. The one
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Athens holds fire on debt schemes, prepares tax relief measures
EconomyProgrammethat this will be one of the top items on the agenda when the creditors return to Athens on May 6 for the third... will be included in the scheme. Anyone wanting to pay off their debt in a one-off payment will have... to unveil before the May 26 European Parliament vote, one of the interventions being considered
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PM aiming to unveil expansionary fiscal measures after Easter
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government is preparing a series of permanent and one-off fiscal measures aimed at providing... products from the higher rate, currently at 24 percent, to the lower one, which is now at 14 percent... to be considering reinstating a discount on the upfront payment of income tax. Among the one-off measures being
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No late rally for Tsipras
Agorapicking of personnel appeared to galvanise KINAL and its voters. This was one of several moves... not to, Tsipras was left with just one option. He had to see the process through so he could claim to have..., his Alternate Health Minister Pavlos Polakis launched one of his usual uncouth social media tirades
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