{"id":1180,"date":"2024-12-15T09:33:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-15T09:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/15\/budget-debate-ends-sunday-highlighted-by-pm-action-on-banking-issues\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T09:33:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T09:33:01","slug":"budget-debate-ends-sunday-highlighted-by-pm-action-on-banking-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/15\/budget-debate-ends-sunday-highlighted-by-pm-action-on-banking-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget debate ends Sunday, highlighted by PM action on banking issues\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-1256355\">\n    <!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"first-img article_thumbnail_wrapper\" itemscope=\"\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n                                                                    <picture><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Vouli_proypologismos-1-320x200.jpg?v=1734250837\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Vouli_proypologismos-1.jpg?v=1734250837\" alt=\"Budget debate ends Sunday, highlighted by PM action on banking issues\u00a0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Vouli_proypologismos-1-960x600.jpg?v=1734250838\"\/><br \/>\n                        <\/source><\/picture>\n<p>[InTime News]<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis\u2019 announcements on government intervention to address issues within the banking sector are expected to dominate Sunday\u2019s fifth and final day of parliamentary debate on the 2025 state budget, to culminate with a vote on the budget.<\/p>\n<p>In the lead-up to the budget debate, Mitsotakis has highlighted concerns over high banking fees, low deposit interest rates, and slow housing loan approval. He has noted that the response from banks, after being told to take action, has not been satisfactory, meaning government action can be expected \u201cto address the core problems.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The leaders of all nine political parties represented in Parliament will take the podium during Sunday\u2019s final day of the budget debate, in order of smallest to biggest, based on seats held. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>National Economy and Finance Minister Kostis Hatzidakis is scheduled to deliver a speech between those of the main opposition socialist PASOK leader Nikos Androulakis and Prime Minister Mitsotakis, heading the conservative New Democracy party, who will be the final speaker before voting begins.<\/p>\n<p>The process, a roll-call vote, is traditionally regarded as a vote of confidence in the government.<\/p>\n<p>[AMNA, Kathimerini]<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n        var NXFBPixelFunc = function () {\n            document.removeEventListener(\"scroll\", NXFBPixelFunc);\n            setTimeout(function () {\n                !function (f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n                    if (f.fbq) return;\n                    n = f.fbq = function () {\n                        n.callMethod ?\n                            n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments)\n                    };\n                    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n                    n.push = n;\n                    n.loaded = !0;\n                    n.version = '2.0';\n                    n.queue = [];\n                    t = b.createElement(e);\n                    t.async = !0;\n                    t.src = v;\n                    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n                    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s)\n                }(window, document, 'script',\n                    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n                fbq('init', '109138906120213');\n                fbq('track', 'PageView');\n            }, 0)\n        };\n        document.addEventListener(\"scroll\", NXFBPixelFunc);\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/economy\/1256355\/budget-debate-ends-sunday-highlighted-by-pm-action-on-banking-issues\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[InTime News] Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis\u2019 announcements on government intervention to address issues within the banking sector are expected to dominate Sunday\u2019s fifth and final day of parliamentary debate on the 2025 state budget, to culminate with a vote on the budget. In the lead-up to the budget debate, Mitsotakis has highlighted concerns over high &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Budget debate ends Sunday, highlighted by PM action on banking issues\u00a0\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/15\/budget-debate-ends-sunday-highlighted-by-pm-action-on-banking-issues\/#more-1180\" aria-label=\"Read more about Budget debate ends Sunday, highlighted by PM action on banking issues\u00a0\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Vouli_proypologismos-1-960x600.jpg?v=1734250838","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}