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Gov't unveils bill to overhaul pension system, increase income tax revenues
EconomyProgrammepercent weight). The social security contribution rate for main pension is set at 20 percent, of which... Gaming Revenues (GGR) for all gambling companies is set at 35 percent. This rate was previously at 30
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Hopes of swift deal on contingent measures doused by technical, political complications
PoliticsGreek Politicsin ministry’s budgets would be enough to meet the target set for the stand-by measures. There have also been... Athens to set out exactly what interventions it plans to make (as well as developing an automatic system
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Delays in concluding programme review are credit negative for Greece, says Moody’s
Economy. S&P has the highest rating for Greece, a ‘B-’ that was set on January 22 this year, while Fitch’s rating stands at ‘CCC’ where it was set on August 18, 2015.
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Greece and lenders edge closer at Eurogroup but standby measures, debt relief not resolved yet
PoliticsGreek Politicsto legislate an extra set of specific fiscal measures now. The automatic mechanism will have... to the guidelines they set out last summer, which is that financing needs to be kept
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Multi-bill details how Greece aims to raise 1.6 bln from indirect taxes
EconomyMacroeconomyThe multi-bill tabled in Parliament on Wednesday evening included a set of parametric fiscal measures yielding around 1 percent of GDP that completes the 3 percent of GDP in fiscal interventions that Greece has to make by 2018 as part of the first programme review. The bulk of the latest set
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HRADF's updated plan for 19 privatisation projects published
Economythe share purchase agreement. The deadline for the completion of the transaction was previously set... bids for the sale of 100 percent is set for May 31. For the latter, three investment groups have
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Potential changes to constitution and electoral law move onto main agenda
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government looks set to present its proposals regarding changes to the Greek constitution in the coming weeks, spokeswoman Olga Gerovasili suggested on Tuesday. Gerovasili was mostly questioned... for around a year. It is also not clear exactly when the suggestions will be set out by the government
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Newsletter 77 - 10/06/2016
procedure could set a precedent that would be open to abuse in the future. Given Pavlopoulos’s stance... on Friday, two days later and well in advance of the deadline set by the Finance Ministry. This decision
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First review completed but more prior actions lie ahead for Greece
EconomyProgramme, the fund’s internal regulation has to be completed by the same date. 2) A second set of state... by the Social Security Institute (IKA). There is also another set of 35 actions that have to be implemented
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Opposition tries to pin government down over last year's Plan X
PoliticsGreek Politicsleaving the euro. It is believed that the difficulties set out in the study played a significant... clarified on the website of the DiEM25 movement set up by Varoufakis. New Democracy chief Kyriakos
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