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  1. March budget primary balance short of target, but taxes continue to overperform
    Finance Ministry

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    The budget primary balance for the first three months of 2022 was confirmed at 1.65 billion euros, compared to a deficit of 13.4 billion euros during the same period last year, according to the final Finance Ministry (MoF) budget execution data released...

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  2. Greek pensions laid bare
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    Agora

    pensions amounts to 884 euros. Note, though, that for around 45 percent of pensioners their monthly... and they receive on average monthly pensions of 771 euros. This is below the overall average of 884 euros since

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  3. Budget continues to perform strongly with 3.64 bln surplus up to May
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    instalment from Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), amounting to 884 million, initially estimated.... Overall, the PIB was virtually in balance. Greece has also received 884 million euros year-to-date from

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  4. If you think it's bleak for Greece now, wait until tomorrow
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    Agora

    productivity growth since 1970 has been averaging 0.7 percent, by far the lowest in the euro area, which

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  5. Greek train firm TRAINOSE attracts just one bid, no interest in rolling stock
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    Economy

    in 2005 as a subsidiary of the Greek railway company (OSE), which was founded in 1970 and is wholly owned

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  6. PM appoints new national security advisor as talks with Turkey hang in balance
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced on Tuesday the appointment of Thanos Dokos to the post of national security advisor, with a mandate to formulate national security strategy and build the National Security Council, a new body created by the p...

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  7. Re-opening plans hang in balance due to unrelenting virus
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    The government does not seem set to abandon its hopes of further relaxing restrictions on economic activity next week even though the Covid-19 data continues to look alarming. On Tuesday, a record 4,340 new coronavirus cases were recorded as the number ...

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  8. Greece prepares for next stage in Covid relaxation as tourism hopes hang in balance
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    The next steps in Greece’s gradual emergence from a six-month lockdown are set to be confirmed on Wednesday, although Covid-19 numbers have eased only marginally and there are doubts about the tourism sector’s ability to capitalise on the official reope...

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  9. Implementation snags hang over ambitious post-Covid recovery plans

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    Greece’s national plan to allocate EU Recovery & Resilience funds is moving apace at the planning stage, but appears to be stumbling at implementation. With the post-covid stimulus package emerging as more key to economic recovery than ever in light of ...

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  10. ND tries to swerve fresh graft claims as EP scandals, phonetapping hang over budget debate
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    The Qatargate scandal centred on PASOK MEP Eva Kaili may have given ruling New Democracy some respite from defending its administration against mounting evidence of a domestic spying operation, but an investigation by the EU prosecutor into one of its o...

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