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  1. Building permits down 11.4 pct in August for second successive drop

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    . Following the August performance, the aggregate figures for the 8-month period point to a modest drop.... The latest official forecasts by the institutions that oversee the Greek adjustment programme point

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  2. EU-Turkey refugee agreement: A life saver or a dud?
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    Agora

    the majority of Turks want. On this point, the Europeans have little, if any, leverage over Erdogan... given that the Greek leader made the point about Turkish incursions into his country’s air space

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  3. Mood sours as focus switches to next set of prior actions

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    prior actions, before returning at some point in January for the start of the third programme’s first... about the country. The statement goes on to point out that the government has so far been living up

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  4. Newsletter 56 - 18/12/2015

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    reportedly spoken to Tsipras personally several times over the last months and was at one point... entry point for all kinds of refugees and migrants from different parts of the world. Equally, Greece

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  5. Greece seen improving refugee response but still under pressure to deliver in Feb
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    Recent developments in Greece point to the European Union viewing its efforts regarding the refugee crisis in a more positive light but the pressure is still on Athens to deliver. European Commission... point, the European Commission welcomes bilateral cooperation (such as Austria or Hungary wishing

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  6. Programme review talks continue, progress on tax, pensions and NPLs at a premium
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    EconomyProgramme

    indications also point to a unified tax scale for salary-earners, pensioners and the self-employed... for a 1.5 percentage point increase in the relevant social security contributions to cover the gap

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  7. Compromise emerges on liberalisation of NPL market
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    EconomyProgramme

    until mid-May but the market would be fully liberalised after this point. The government had initially proposed certain thresholds for these types of NPLs but seems to have compromised on this point

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  8. NPL resolution in Italy and Greece
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    Agora

    , that is, bad loan debt of insolvent creditors. In point of fact, the situation in Greece is even more... who least deserve it in Greece, namely strategic loan defaulters. Various estimates point to about

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  9. Building activity falls by 11.5 pct in March for third straight decline
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    of 33.3 and 15.3 percent respectively. The aggregate figures for the first quarter point to a 13.7.... Meanwhile, apartment prices have decreased by 41.6 percent over this period. Official estimates point

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  10. Crisis management policy: the sad lesson of the Greek case
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    Agora

    fiscal tightening of three percent of GDP was necessary from this point of departure, while the IMF now... is to start by finding out how big a surplus is needed to pay off all the debt, the second point is to find

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