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  1. Athens waits for response from institutions on primary residences proposal
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    EconomyProgramme

    spoke to the AMNA news agency said that more than 80 percent of non-performing mortgages... activities at 10 regional ports. The process will start with container shipping and logistics

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  2. The dragon's head roars in Athens
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    Agora

    cooperation remains the Port of Piraeus and the expansion plans which COSCO first tabled more than 18... administrative obstacles or political roadblocks to the construction of the fourth container terminal

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  3. Greece cheaper than average for majority of categories except food, most expensive for communications
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    Society

    as postal services and the internet. The country came in 57.6 percent higher than the EU average... prices were 5.2 percent higher than the EU average, ahead of Germany and the Netherlands. In other areas, Greece emerged with lower than average prices. Housing costs and prices in Greece came

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  4. Three in 10 workers in part-time jobs, earning less than 400 euros
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    Society

    percent did not make more than 23.48 per day. Men were more likely than women to be in full-time... in full-time work, the average daily salary was 15.1 percent higher than that for women (52.69 euros... and 23.09 for women.The same was also true for part-time work. Although women were more likely than

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  5. Labour database shows 8 in 10 workers earn less than 1,200 per month
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    Economy

    . According to Ergani Greek companies are dominated by small firms as more than 88 pct employ less than 10 workers, some 262,634 companies out of a total of 298,255. Around 10 pct employ between 11 and 50. This leads to a total dominance of SMEs in the Greek economy, with more than 98 pct

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  6. Wealth inequality in Greece has grown at faster rate than eurozone peers during crisis
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    Society

    The economic crisis has increased wealth inequality in Greece at a much faster pace than in other... increase than the two other countries, Italy and Spain, Credit Suisse considers to have experienced... from 52 to 55.6 percent, which means that in both cases the current total is also lower than

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  7. Athens gears up for Cyprus talks, expecting progress rather than agreement
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    to another conference in the near future. Any agreement will have to be put to voted on by both Turkish

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  8. Progress rather than breakthrough the target at Eurogroup
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    will put his name to is some clarity on debt relief. While Athens accepts that the medium-term debt relief

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  9. More than half of Greek households rely mainly on pensions

    Society

    households in 2015. Last year’s figure was slightly lower than the record 52 percent recorded in 2014 but almost ten percentage points higher than the 2012 share of 42.3 percent. Of those households... at less than 10,000 euros. The outlook for 2016 remains similarly negative, with seven in ten Greek

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  10. Q1 GDP contracts 0.5 pct QoQ and 1.4 pct YoY, slightly worse than flash estimates
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    . The headline figure is slightly worse than the 0.4 percent QoQ contraction in the flash estimates released... in Q4 2015. Today’s figure for Q1 is slightly higher than the -1.3 percent released in flash estimates... reflects a nosedive in disposable income by more than 30 percent. This is attributed to a sharp rise

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