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Androulakis positions PASOK as alternative to leading parties against phonetapping backdrop
PoliticsGreek Politicsin the context of testimony, and the extent to which the proceedings themselves are subject to secrecy laws... the parliament’s expert advisory committee. Despite attempts to maintain the secrecy of the proceedings
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SYRIZA and ND square up on cost-of-living crisis as government attempts to draw line under surveillance
PoliticsGreek Politicswound up its proceedings on Thursday with the delivery of a classified report which failed to shed... by accusing the government of a cover-up, with Communist Party KKE describing the proceedings
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Government's proposals for draconian sentencing deemed unenforceable by opposition
PoliticsGreek Politicsviolence and faster judicial proceedings. The New Democracy government claims the changes are necessary... for an escalation. SYRIZA conference The proceedings of the SYRIZA party conference kick off on Thursday evening
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Newsletter 16 - 20/02/2015
euros at the end of January. In particular, 46.6 billion – or more than 60 percent of tax arrears... owe less than 5,000 euros, stand at just 3 percent (2.3 billion) of the outstanding amount of 76... debt related to 326,000 individuals and 75,000 corporates owing more than 5,000 each makes up 97
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Budget primary surplus outperforms in 2-month, tax revenues underperform in Feb
EconomyMacroeconomyexpenditure coming in 866 million lower than target coupled with gross revenue (revenues before tax... profits, which was 334 million higher than target. The more detailed revenue figures showed direct... million better than target. The latter mostly reflects higher than expected revenues from direct tax
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Budget primary surplus falls to 1.1 bln in Q1, slightly above target
EconomyMacroeconomy), which was 42.7 percent lower than the figure of 1.86 billion a year ago, the Finance Ministry (MoF... lower than the target and the Public Investment Budget (PIB) surplus was 149 million better than... of 1.12 billion in February as gross revenues slowed down by more than 1.1 billion month on month (MoM
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Newsletter 60 - 29/01/2016
compared to the fiscal target for a deficit of 0.25 percent. Although this is more of a preliminary than... to more than 1.1 billion euros in absolute terms, could provide a cushion in the upcoming... than the institutions had forecasted a few months ago. A similar estimate for overall stable GDP
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IMF examines how Greece accumulated large pile of unpaid taxes and contributions
EconomyProgramme. Specifically, tax debt represents more than 80 percent of total liabilities to the state. The stock reached... tax debtors owe less than 3,000 euros each, while their tax debt makes up just 2 percent of the total figure. In contrast, 1 percent of debtors owe more than 1 million euros each, accounting for 80
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The first cut is the deepest? Greek pension reforms in context
EconomyFeaturesof public protests against austerity. Often the public rhetoric obscures rather than conveys...’ pensions directly out of the budget rather than through a pension fund. State pensions amounted... more than twice the size of the entire public procurement bill. However successive governments have
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Is a lack of spending hampering Greece's firefighting capabilities?
Societyvolunteers. By this count, Greece employs more professional firefighters than most developed western states. With 115 career firefighters per 100,000 inhabitants, it ranks higher than the United States with 109, and has more than twice the personnel than Italy with 48, and almost three times
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