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Greece, lenders reach deal to secure bailout sub-tranche and bank recap funds
EconomyProgrammeby 3,391 euros for each child. So, for a family with two children the income threshold is set at 20,639... that will burden the government budget with a total of 100 million euros. The second tier aims to protect... property value is set at 230,000 euros and the annual income would be no higher than 13,906 euros
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Ministers unveil lengthy payment schemes for unpaid taxes and contributions
EconomyProgrammeMinister Alexis Tsipras specifically, regarding a set a tax relief measures. SYRIZA has been trailing... Haritsis and Deputy Finance Minister Katerina Papanatsiou set out the parameters of the three different... qualify for the 120 instalments, with the minimum monthly payment being set at 30 euros. For those
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Criticism of authorities' response intensifies as wildfires continue to rage
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe pressure on the country’s civil defence mechanisms and the political leadership. As the sun set... season. So far this month 6,000 hectares have burned, while the total this year adds up to 12,400... Michalis Chrysochoidis, meanwhile, was set upon by local leaders during a crisis meeting in Olympia
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Greece needs to re-think natural gas policy, starting with demand
Agoraby the end of 2022, and total independence from Russian fossil fuels “well before 2030”. Geopolitical... climate change targets is – somewhat counter-intuitively – set to prolong this upward trend. Firstly... gas distribution networks beyond the main urban centres. In addition, new proposals set
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Numbers stacking up for PM to announce winter relief package
PoliticsGreek Politicsreturn he will have to decide with his ministers what relief measures the government will set out... are working on a package of around 2 billion euros, which Mitsotakis will be able to set out in his speech... evolves in the second quarter of this year. A report in Kathimerini on Friday suggested that total GDP
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Exit from enhanced surveillance nears, but fiscal commitments bind Greece until 2060
EconomyProgrammeagreed the latest set of debt relief measures, with eurozone finance ministers noting that debt... elections in July 2019. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis set the completion of the surveillance as one... has undertaken the completion of a set of outstanding reforms until the end of the year, which
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Newsletter 356 - 21/10/2022
November, though. The Finance Ministry already has 1 billion euros set aside for any energy needs... majority. This would certainly be the case in the first electoral contest which is set to be held under... to keep interest on deposits low. Based on this set of figures, the Greek banking system has come
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Mitsotakis revives spectre of political instability as polls show ND lead diminished
PoliticsGreek Politicsin New Democracy’s four-year term, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has set in motion the campaign... Varoufakis and joined by PASOK, “mathematically the potential exists”. The parties have set their own.... PASOK, as set out by its leader, wants a strong double-digit figure, aiming for something closer
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Greek politics goes from stability to state of flux
Agorapct Mitsotakis had set as a target for his party. Subsequent opinion polls indicate that backing... a combined total of almost 17 pct. Their numbers have been edging up in the opinion polls carried out... are set to become tougher. Economic growth is expected to slow over the coming years as the funds from
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Rental subsidy rekindles political debate over housing crisis
PoliticsGreek Politicsincome criteria are set to receive a refund of up to 800 euros annually each November, equivalent to one... that the measure was not a “panacea” for the housing crisis, but was not insignificant either. The total... authority are elected. Under the government’s latest proposal, as set out in the newspaper, a threshold
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