Electoral Handouts

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Editorial Ta Nea: Comparisons

It is no coincidence that Portugal borrows with much lower interest rates than Greece, as the yield on ten-year bonds demonstrates.

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Editorial To Vima: Leaving office, undermining the future

The cost of the package of measures announced by the PM is between 1.1 and 1.4 percent of GDP annually, which could exceed five billion euros over two years.

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Editorial Ta Nea: At the push of a button

Over-taxation was a conscious choice of the government, which aimed to collect funds for electoral handouts at the end of its term.

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Editorial To Vima: Peddlers of hope

With PM Alexis Tsipras donning the cloak of protector of the poor and punisher of the elite, promises, handouts, and divisive tactics are the order of the day.

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Editorial Ta Nea: Disappointment

The government fell as low as to try just a few days before elections to fool a segment of society that deserves the utmost respect – senior citizens.

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Editorial To Vima: Old party politics alive and kicking

After the electoral benefit, which the government dubbed “13th [monthly] pension", it handed out an extraordinary benefit to prison guards, employees of auditing organs, and coroners.

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Editorial Ta Nea: Desperation

This government pledged much that it did not do and did much that it had not told us about. Still, one cannot but note its obsession with the sterile policy of benefits and pledges to everyone, with zero results.