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POLAND: October elections will drive budget plans
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) are both offering largesse to various social groups…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB274138
ISSN: 2633-304X
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Sanchez will now have to do something which he desperately sought to avoid: rely on Catalan support to survive in government.
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB249923
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The plan includes ambitious reforms and investment projects, but the Commission’s critical first reactions highlight questions around the feasibility of some of these reforms and…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB262345
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President Tabare Vazquez’s government will face a congressional debate over the 2018-20 budget marked by the high fiscal deficit. Although ratings agencies are showing confidence…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB221644
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Smer-SD has agreed to form a coalition with three other parties -- the Slovak National Party (SNS), Most-Hid and Siet -- which passed the 5% threshold to enter parliament at…
This fiscal path is broadly consistent with the previous government’s, but the surpluses are planned to be smaller and net government debt is expected to drop below 20% of GDP two…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB227632
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The agreement settles the Macedonian ‘name dispute' that has bedevilled bilateral relations since the mid-1990s. Foreign, not social, issues have taken centre stage in politics…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB241464
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To enact the bill by end-December and avoid potential defeat, the minority National Liberal (PNL) government side-stepped a vote by ‘assuming responsibility’ for the bill before…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB249686
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The non-party government of former EU Commissioner Dacian Ciolos took office on November 17 after the Ponta government stood down. Much of the previous administration's budget…