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The government is launching a new round of tax cuts with a focus on direct income taxes. The signal was set by the prime minister and the minister of the national economy at the inauguration of the new AADE facilities, stressing that tax revenues will allow for new tax cuts.

Greece outlined measures to boost its lagging birthrate on Thursday, from vouchers and childcare benefits to tax breaks for new parents, although experts questioned the plan's effectiveness.

The first applications for the purchase of the encroached properties from the state by private individuals can be submitted from September 30.

In the first stage the applications will concern 20 regional units and at the end of October they will be extended to the entire country, according to sources at the Ministry of National Economy and Finance.

Türkiye ranked 18th among 194 countries in terms of population size, constituting 1.1 percent of the world's total population last year, Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) said on July 9.

A declining trend has been observed in the average household size in Türkiye, while the number of individuals living alone is increasing, according to the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) data released on May 15.

Immigration is a topic that is sure to animate any political discussion and campaign. Unmanaged it risks elevating the extreme right to positions of power. And yet the flip side of all this is an enormous opportunity to boost Western liberal democracy and infuse it with the dynamism it now lacks.

The Finance Ministry and the tax administration are looking for solutions so that professionals stop hiding their actual incomes - i.e. taxable material - through fictitious expenses. 

Women in Europe are giving birth to their first child later than before: according to the European statistics agency Eurostat, the average age of first-time mothers in the European Union was 29.7 years in 2021, reported the "Frankfurter Rundschau". Statistics place Bulgarian women among the youngest mothers - the average age when they have their first child is 26.

Turkey's external assets reached $288.1 billion in February, down 1.6 percent from the end of 2021, according to data released by the Turkish Central Bank yesterday.

Liabilities against non-residents fell 2 percent to $512.1 billion during the same period.

An expert projects that the share of the elderly population in Turkey's total population will reach the same level in Europe in 2060 given the current trajectory of the fertility rate in the country.

The fertility rate represents the ratio between the average number of live births in a year and the number that a woman would have during her childbearing years - the 15-49 age group.