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The scenarios ahead for Greece as review hangs in balance
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAs talks between Greek government officials and the country’s lenders continue in Brussels... of growth to the Greek economy as well as access to the European Central Bank’s quantitative easing... majority. If they win and gain more than 150 seats in the Greek Parliament, Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s party
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Newsletter 238 -07/02/2020
among Greek politicians, journalists and commentators that some NGOs have been directly or indirectly... the theory. Petsas suggested that Greek authorities are investigating whether the uprising... protests to gather force, but this would be misplaced as the fizzling out of the nascent Greek anti
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Newsletter 341 - 10/06/2022
party well below the levels of support it garnered in the last few years and the Greek public highly... caused by the souring of Greek-Turkish relations over the last few weeks. Defence matters overtook... by “national” or “Greek-Turkish” issues (34 pct) and public health (29 pct). The Kapa Research poll, carried
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New migration law passes amid questions over Chios tragedy
PoliticsGreek Politicsresidency permit simply for attending Greek schools has been scrapped. Plevris captured... the Hellenic Coast Guard and migrants. Fifteen migrants were killed off Chios earlier in the week..., this version of events is denied by the Greek authorities. In an interview with Foreign Policy
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PPC, Hellenikon present government with first test of problem solving mettle
Economyadministration thought it had finally solved this problem with a plan to sell off some of PPC’s... with creditors and underline Harold Macmillan’s old adage that events knock governments off course... are headaches for governments. The tremendous rally in Greek government bonds in the past six weeks left
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Piraeus Bank posts net profit of 44 mln in Q3 from continued operations
EconomyBankingone-off items, specifically the bank’s voluntary retirement scheme, PPI rose by 15 percent QoQ. PPI.... Excluding one-off items, PPI for the same quarter last year was 209 million euros. Net interest income... to Greek corporates (1.8 billion), SMEs (650 million euros) and retail (450 million). Subsequently
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PM increases coronavirus support package to 10 bln, while sounding dire warning to public
PoliticsGreek Politicslaid off since the beginning of March. Opposition parties have also been sounding the alarm about... and all year-end exams to be called off. The teachers claim that while the Education Ministry has... to the internet from home. Around 78.5 percent of Greek households have broadband connections
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Industrial production up by 0.5 pct in Jan, electricity supply drops
EconomyMacroeconomyManufacturing PMI remained in contraction at the start of 2023 at 49.2 points, eased off though from... at 49.2 points, eased off though from the 47.2 points of December, according to S&P Global data... of the Greek manufacturing sector, though S&P notes that the deterioration in January was only marginal
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Newsletter 447 - 17/01/2025
off any announcement pending Mitsotakis’s decision. The social democrats wanted to see first... of Sakellaropoulou, outside of the sphere of politics. Ultranationalist Greek Solution leader Kyriakos Velopoulos.... This is a similar strategy to the one that paid off last year. The markets’ view on Greece’s debt and fiscal
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MEP Androulakis takes first round in KINAL leadership vote after notable turnout
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe leadership of KINAL in a run-off ballot next Sunday after an impressive turnout in the first round..., in November 2017, which led to Fofi Gennimata and Androulakis going into a run-off vote. Given... a key player in Greek politics as part of her legacy. While emotions were high, it is also the case
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