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Newsletter 273 -13/11/2020
related to the coronavirus, with another 310 patients intubated around the country. The number of new.... On Wednesday, Health Minister Vassilis Kikilias announced that 100 more ICU beds would be added... 2015 when it fell by -2.2 percent. Greece’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) fell by 1.8 percent year
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Piraeus enters agreement for sale of 2.2 bln loan portfolio
EconomyBankingcard debt to the value of 2.2 billion euros, or 385 million in on-balance sheet gross book value... to be generated by the transaction as of March 31, 2018, with the bank’s NPE ratio falling by over 100... than the previous target by 2.2 billion. The targeted reduction in NPLs is stated as 47 percent
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Human Rights Commissioner calls for improvements to battered healthcare system
SocietyA report by the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe has shown the severe impact of the country’s crisis on Greece’s healthcare sector as well as the health of Greeks. The report... to accessing healthcare in practice and greater investment in ensuring that the human rights of disabled
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Approach to protests, policing poses a new quandary for government
PoliticsGreek Politics. Striking the right balance between ensuring that SYRIZA does not give police the type of free reign that has led to controversy and even criticism from human rights groups in the past but at the same... portfolio from the Interior Ministry to the Justice Ministry amid concerns that Panousis
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Greece's C/A deficit for March drops sharply to 44.4 mln
EconomyMacroeconomy, from 100 million in February, chiefly due to an inflow of 200 million from the participation... the YtD amount to 310 million. The February outflow stemmed from a rise in resident’s investment... marginally improving from 2.4 percent of GDP in 2013 to 2.3 percent in 2014 and 2.2 percent in 2015.
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Piraeus Bank records net losses of 6 mln in Q1, further reduction in NPE stock
EconomyBankingto around 70 million in Q1, after a negative figure of 100 million in the previous quarter. However, NPE.... The cost of risk stood at 2.2 percent in Q1 and management expects a lower figure between 150-200 bps... bps to more than 310 bps in 2020. It also sees the cost to income ratio falling below 45 percent
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Newsletter 60 - 29/01/2016
which European decision makers gather. This is the least that human decency demands of an enlightened... that take the risk anyway. So far, the EU’s efforts to get Turkey to tackle human traffickers has... a whole new type of problem. There were more than 850,000 arrivals in 2015, only 414 of whom have been
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Search for solutions, not scapegoats in EU's refugee crisis
Agorathat human decency demands of an enlightened Europe. The other point concerns what more Greece can do once... that take the risk anyway. So far, the EU’s efforts to get Turkey to tackle human traffickers has... a whole new type of problem. There were more than 850,000 arrivals in 2015, only 414 of whom have been
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Fighting fake news is a "to be or not to be" battle
Agorafor human rights, including freedom of expression) and that in the Republic of North Macedonia... this information threat ‘infodemic’. Before him, the President of the WHO, Tedros Gebresius, said the same
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Of symmetry and adjustments in the eurozone
Agoraby the World Economic Forum. I am not a fan of this type of indicators, especially when making comparisons... and at the Jakarta School of Public Policy, Indonesia, where he is also head of the Economics Concentration. He
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