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PM set on sharing out more economic benefits in bid to recover support
PoliticsGreek Politicsspace, on top of an already estimated 1 billion euros, to dedicate to the array of measures... barely cover their basic needs and 12 pct say they do not earn enough to meet those needs. Also
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Newsletter 468 - 27/06/2025
, dropped slightly to 12%, and the far-left Course of Freedom slipped to 8.5%. Support... was solid. Receipts exceeded 1 billion euros, jumping by 17.4 pct year-on-year (YoY). Over the first
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Seasonal factors take unemployment rate to 8.6 pct in Q2 - lowest since 2008
EconomyMacroeconomydrop by 12 percent compared to the same quarter of 2024. The number of people employed amounted... Aegean at 3.8 percent and Crete at 4.1 percent. The number of long-term unemployed (more than 1 year
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Newsletter 476 - 19/09/2025
from 28.5% in June, while PASOK edges up from 13.5% to 14%. Course of Freedom slips from 12% to 10.5..., attracting close to 1 billion euros in offers, settling for a yield of 3.26 pct. This was unchanged
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Fitch rating upgrade concludes another successful year for GGBs
Economyfiscally. Fitch expects a general government surplus of nearly 1 pct of GDP in 2025, following 1.3 pct... to the large share of deferred tax credits at 12 billion euros, or nearly half the CET1 capital, a contingent
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Meeting of Greek and Turkish foreign ministers not expected to yield breakthrough
PoliticsForeign Policyministers of Greece and Turkey on November 8. The talks are due to take place in Athens and could define... for two scenarios that could emerge from the November 8 meeting. The first, which is rather unlikely... is certain is that the meeting on November 8, will prepare the ground for the Mitsotakis-Erdogan
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Greece - Some structural macroeconomic arithmetic
Agoragrowth. Consider Table 1 below, which presents recent growth outlooks for Greece by the Ministry... suggests that trend output growth sits around 1¼ percent a year. The OECD seems to be below 2 percent... are average workers in the economy becoming more efficient to make up for fewer in number.[1
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Three-quarters of Greek workforce struggles to make ends meet
Societyin the previous 12 months, almost five times the EU average (12 percent). Despite the massive job losses caused... in the previous 12 months, in the EU the average is 57 percent. The same number (57 percent) of Maltese... with their Spanish counterparts, Greeks were again more likely (19 percent, above the EU average of 12
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Has external competitiveness been fixed in Greece?
Agorathe euro zone is an important indicator of significant progress. Figure 1 above shows some summary... in these calculations from figure 1 above? The lower bold line of figure 1 is the IMF’s REER.... Why 1992? We will explain shortly. Let us first look for the same concept of the REER in figure 1
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The case of SYRIZA's fiscal performance
Agoraas regards the overall fiscal balance on an ongoing basis. Figure 1 below shows in the bold line what this 12-month moving average looks like from December 2013 through August 2021. Figure 1 also... be rolled over, and that no new net debt be incurred.[1] To allow for “normal” shocks and noise around
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