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Greece drops to 72 in Doing Business index as long-term problems persist
EconomyFeaturesin Greece as a cause for concern. In recent years and in order to attract and boost business, Greece..., was recalibrated three times across the time series, but all recalculations show that Greece performed badly... remained consistently at 9 percent across all years while the recovery rate has dropped from a high
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Mitsotakis responds to Tsipras challenge with proposals for broad changes to constitution
PoliticsGreek Politics” of the constitution and being interested in using the revision process in order to distract attention... a greater role in the appointment of senior public officials. All in all, the proposals made by the New
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New strategic investment framework unveiled, faster licencing and tax breaks promised
EconomyFeaturescomponent was to attract investment in all sectors of the economy to ensure the widest possible distribution of any benefits entailed in order to boost growth and employment. Among other components... for the issuance of all required permits for the implementation of a Strategic Investment should not exceed three
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Greece rises through the ranks for LNG transport tankers
EconomyFeaturesthat half of all orders this year have come from Greek shipowners. The data does not capture..., of which 101 ships are currently on order. Having always had a strong presence in the shipping sector, LNG..., the Boris Sokolov, which was built in China and is currently the only all-season LNG tanker
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Macedonia name deal enters crucial and contentious phase
PoliticsForeign Policy, then the Greek Parliament needs to ratify the Prespes Agreement first of all. If everything goes... at the level of permanent representatives, in order to approve the text of the Protocol under the new.... That makes a total of 123 MPs. Even if Mitsotakis could secure the votes of all seven ANEL MPs, which seems
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SYRIZA states intention to continue as minority govt after ANEL leaves coalition
PoliticsGreek Politicspolitics and the government did all it could to make the most of the allegations in order.... Loverdos, along with all the other ministers, prime ministers and public officials implicated has
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BoG and HFSF schemes under scrutiny as banks look for a way forward on bad loans
EconomyBankingwith their work in reducing bad loans in order to reach the ambitious target of an NPE ratio below 10... that Piraeus Bank was launching a closed tender for the management of all its NPEs in Greece... reduction in NPEs is anticipated under the scheme while capital adequacy is maintained for all four
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EastMed pipeline close to high-level agreement, but still a long way from becoming reality
EconomyFeaturesinstance, the EastMed is not the only game in town. Almost all parties to the EastMed project are also... with such complex and shifting geopolitics, it is not surprising that cooperation is not in the air in all... of the signing, and order a new environmental impact assessment. There were also formal protests
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Newsletter 198 -15/03/2019
that the absence of an all-clear from the Eurogroup would not scupper its market strategy and having...” for an agreement to be reached on all the outstanding items of the second review by April 5. PDMA releases... the unfinished reform agenda in order to maintain competitiveness and boost the country’s longer-term
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Next government in strong position to decouple presidential vote from snap elections
PoliticsGreek Politicsunder the next Parliament in order for this part of the constitution to change. All in all, 49 proposals
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