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Newsletter 454 - 07/03/2025
this week), 26 from SYRIZA, 11 from New Left, 6 from Course for Freedom, 6 from Movement for Democracy
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Newsletter 467 - 20/06/2025
in the next 6–12 months, pressure to abandon independence in favour of coalition will only... behind housing costs increasing by 6 pct in May. There is already mounting pressure on Greek
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OPEKEPE inquiry sparks new political clash as despondent public looks on
PoliticsGreek Politics(KKE) at 6 pct (8.7). SYRIZA languishes at 3.6 pct (4.8). Strikingly, undecided voters account for 24.3... pct positive responses (up from 11 pct) and 10 pct “interest,” while Samaras’s garners 6 pct positive
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Newsletter 486 - 28/11/2025
and 6% in rural areas. Housing in Greece is also the most expensive relative to available income... to -50.6 points, from -47.6 in the previous month, now down by 6 points on a rolling 12-month basis
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Newsletter 488 - 12/12/2025
the wider economy. The loans component of the RRF still has roughly 6 billion euros to be disbursed... deficit is down by 6 pct to 27.1 billion euros. Excluding the value of oil and ships, the deficit
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Debt relief or debt restructuring for Greece?
Agora) is without precedent in the history of a sovereign debt restructuring exercise.[1] Put otherwise, while... debt dynamics (see graph 1 below) it is a matter of time until this secondary migration process... a combined volume of 240 billion euro. The current programme expires in mid-2014. 1. Who will blink first
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Greece agrees with troika, looks to tranche release and redistribution of surplus
PoliticsGreek Politicseuros will reportedly go towards reducing the country’s debt, 1 billion to reduce state arrears and 500 million will be given as a “social dividend.” The latter mainly involves one-off handouts to 1... contributions by 3.9 percentage points (2.9 for employers and 1 for employees), which will be effective
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Greek travel receipts rise 9.1 pct in January as surplus doubles
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece's travel receipts rose by 9.1 percent in January, after a modest increase of 1 percent..., up by 1 million compared to the 2014 figure, and direct tourism revenues above the 2014 level... Chairman Andreas Andreadis recently said that the euro’s drop against the US dollar to almost a 1:1
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Athens and creditors edge closer on tax and pensions but gap remains on NPLs
EconomyProgrammeissues that need to be settled are: 1) The national pension, with lenders insisting the whole amount... contributions for supplementary pensions, but at a lower rate of up to 1 percentage point (pp) vis... of pension cost savings of 1 percent of GDP (1.8 billion euros) in 2016 to be met. Such a development would
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Greece and creditors eye compromise to move review along
PoliticsGreek Politicsof measures (1 percent of GDP from pensions, 1 percent from direct taxes and 1 percent... of the measures, particularly the 1 percent of GDP in extra fiscal interventions, and doubts... should resist demands from the IMF for the 1 percent of GDP in supplementary measures (which
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