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Budget deficit of 6.38 bln in Aug confirmed; target beaten due to one offs
EconomyMacroeconomyThe budget primary balance was confirmed at a deficit of 6.38 billion euros in the first eight months of 2021, compared with a deficit of 5.48 billion in the same period last year, the final Finance Ministry (MoF) budget execution data showed on Monday....
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VAT and income taxes buoy revenue performance as primary surplus target is beaten in Sep
EconomyMacroeconomyThe budget primary balance in September was confirmed at a surplus of almost 6 billion euros, compared to a surplus of 52 million euros in the same month of 2022, according to the final Finance Ministry (MoF) budget execution data released on Wednesday....
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Mitsotakis lets budget measures sink in as he mulls presidential pick
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe measures announced in the budget appear to have hit the mark with New Democracy lawmakers, who met with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Tuesday in a pre-holiday gathering. The PM later told ERT TV that he would not be announcing his candidate ...
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New Democracy and PASOK ponder next moves after election defeat
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDefeats for New Democracy and PASOK in Sunday’s elections look like triggering developments in both parties over the next few weeks. Despite Antonis Samaras’s attempt to put on a brave face when... (with 4.68 percent it was beaten by Independent Greeks into seventh place among the seven parties
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Rifts in New Democracy as Samaras vows to stay as leader
PoliticsGreek Politicsconference but not an emergency congress where ND’s leadership could be put to a vote. This position... challenge following her failed attempt in 2009, when she was beaten by Samaras. One of the interesting
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Athens waits for Moscovici visit, eyes debt relief and lower volume of measures
PoliticsGreek Politicsinto account. The Commission’s data put Greece’s primary surplus for last year at 2 percent of GDP... are beaten. However, this is not enough for Athens. It also wants clarity on the fiscal targets
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Tsipras's choices are becoming clearer but not any easier
AgoraThe mist is gradually lifting and the choices available to the beleaguered Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras are becoming clearer. The proposal put to Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos by Greece’s... surplus target being beaten by 1.5 percentage points in 2016 (an assessment that the European
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Cost of living remains public's top worry, as government slashes green transition budget
PoliticsGreek Politics, versus 12.1 pct who picked the leftist opposition. Social democrats PASOK are narrowly beaten... spending requirements. The argument put forward is that technologies like heat pumps will come down
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Newsletter 217 -02/08/2019
. With the first of several tax cuts through, New Democracy will return from the summer break.... The final draft law to be tabled before Parliament takes a 10-day break from August 10 is mini multi-bill... Greek manufacturers was the highest since the series began in July 2012.
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Newsletter 45 - 02/10/2015
Mitsotakis, he does not have a family connection with the party and truly represents a break from the past... of Greece’s most challenging problems, and perhaps the ones that will make or break the current government... of 3,000 a day. Understandably, this has put a huge strain on the Greek state’s resources. No country
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