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  1. Greek pensions laid bare
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    Agora

    paid in March with a cost of 277 million euros, which corresponds to an average supplementary pension... and subsidized employment schemes. The Complementary Pension Allowance (EKAS), which serves more...) is close to 1.2 billion euros. Pure pension-related grants, excluding EKAS, from the budget were

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  2. Coalition ministers, MPs wrestle with implications of Eurogroup agreement
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    a discount until now. He was beaten to it, though, by Defence Minister Panos Kammenos, who leads... pledge regarding the EKAS benefit for low-income pensioners would be fulfilled. The Eurogroup indicated that Tsipras had overstepped the mark when he promised on Sunday that EKAS recipients would

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  3. Athens assesses new Turkish government, potential impact on imminent drive for fresh talks
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    controversial statements regarding the West, like Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu, have been removed... by Erdogan since new Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan is one of his closest aides. Fidan headed.... But the new foreign minister, Hakan Fidan, is well-known in Athens for being Turkey’s invisible

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  4. Government tables 2016 budget, upgrades GDP forecasts but leaves fiscal estimates unchanged
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    (1.3 billion), development of Hellenikon (345 million), sale of real estate and shares (277 million... due to rise in health care contribution for pensioners and reduction in EKAS beneficiaries, public

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  5. Gov't under scrutiny over relationship with judicial system

    PoliticsForeign Policy

    prosecutor Georgia Tsatani, who was responsible for investigating businessman Andreas Vgenopoulos... that Papangelopoulos tried to take her off the case. The deputy minister has admitted asking Tsatani to hand... and Transparency Committee to look into the issue. Tsatani is also under investigation from Thanou after her

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  6. Newsletter 68 - 01/04/2016

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    was beaten again. Despite the economy entering recession, Greece being monitored for its oversized public... implemented new interventions include the gradual phasing out of the EKAS solidarity payment

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  7. Greece tries to navigate through uncertainty in Western Balkans
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    Hoyt Yee also met with Xhaferi in Skopje during an official visit earlier on April 30. "We feel......to propose a government and a government programme," Yee said in Skopje after meeting with leaders on both.... Yee's meeting with President Gjorge Ivanov, who has directly opposed the formation of a government

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  8. First round of local elections leave Greek politics finely balanced
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    Democracy’s incumbent Vassilis Michaloliakos was beaten into second place by independent Yiannis Moralis... incumbent Giorgos Kaminis all the way. According to Interior Ministry projections Kaminis was expected

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  9. With eye on elections, Tsipras talks up public sector hirings
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    to be beaten in those ballots and it would risky to hold a national vote in the wake... with 4,500 next year. Meanwhile, the Interior Ministry estimates that there are roughly 35,000

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  10. New Democracy tries to win over voters with crackdown on bank charges, migration
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    severely brain-damaged after being beaten and sexually assaulted by a Pakistani migrant on the island... politician met with EU interior ministers on Tuesday in Copenhagen, where he pressed for faster

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