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Strong income tax revenues and contained spending maintain budget outperformance in May
EconomyMacroeconomyThe budget primary balance was confirmed at a surplus of 5.34 billion euros up to May, compared.... The total budget balance by May showed a surplus of 1.88 billion euros, from a 535-million-euro deficit..., 1.13 billion euros above the target. Expenditure By May, overall expenditure stood at 27.09 billion
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Newsletter 121 - 02/06/2017
at the May 22 Eurogroup so that it provides access to QE from the European Central Bank... are at the top of the growth league in Europe.” May economic sentiment declines 1.7 pts HRADF accepts Athens... by 1.7 points in May after improving cumulatively by 2 points in the previous two months, European
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After local elections in Turkey, Athens hopes recent tension with Ankara will ease
PoliticsForeign Policyof Agathonisi, in the eastern Aegean. Athens has lodged a strong demarche and according to diplomatic..., that Turkey may feel it is being encircled after the sixth summit meeting between Israel, Greece and Cyprus in Jerusalem on March 20, which received the strong political support of Washington. Even
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Newsletter 497 - 06/03/2026
‑bookings are on hold, flights are disrupted, and travellers from the US and Asia may avoid... frame the deployment to Cyprus as proof of strong leadership — a message that appears to resonate..., and a prime minister who may be tempted to turn crisis into political capital.EconomyGreece
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Newsletter 72 - 06/05/2016
to back another package worth 2 percent of GDP, even if it may never be implemented. The European... cost this may carry. There seems no obvious solution to this impasse but Monday’s Eurogroup should make it clearer about how a solution may be reached. Brussels expects milder recession in '16 Broad
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Newsletter 82 - 15/07/2016
in May after a 3.3 percent increase in April. The positive performance in May fully reflects a rebound... hints at changes to electoral bill Govt at loggerheads with judiciary over Siemens trial suspension... euros in May, much higher than the 694 million rise in April. The aggregate figure for the year so far
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PM shapes high stakes autumn agenda as Turkey’s marine parks move prompts backlash
PoliticsGreek Politicsinterconnection. The UN General Assembly in late September may open space for an informal five‑party... and Kastellorizo - has triggered strong political reactions in Athens. The Greek Foreign Ministry called... international law. As Athens sees it, Turkey may legislate marine parks only within its own territorial
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Greece's key pledges and requests at the Eurogroup meetings
PoliticsGreek Politics. Indeed, we have some innovative ideas of our own that may help mobilize idle savings into productive... of August (or any other duration that Eurogroup may deem fit), to agree on a number of sensible... agreement that during this period the Greek state will be funded under a minimalist menu that solves
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Newsletter 512 - 10/07/2026
% equally worried about both. There is, however, a strong thematic divide. ND is rated stronger... the public’s current priorities, suggesting a softening of the once‑strong anti‑SYRIZA sentiment... to recover if it hopes to approach a majority. Samaras’s looming presence adds a new layer
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New president receives strong endorsement, hints at areas of interest
PoliticsGreek PoliticsSenior judge Katerina Sakellaropoulou was elected Greece's new, and first female, president on Wednesday by the vast majority of the country’s MPs, vindicating Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s choice, but also justifying SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras...
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