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Newsletter 461 - 09/05/2025
by Zoe Konstantopoulou, saw its support shoot up during February and March, reaching 13.4 pct... saw their backing dip from 12.8 pct to 12.4 pct. Although the gap between the two parties is slight... asked whether they saw the next general elections as an opportunity to cast a protest vote, 77 pct
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First round of local elections leave Greek politics finely balanced
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat Greek politics is heading in. SYRIZA’s pulled off surprising results in Athens but made little... held off conservative hopeful Yiannis Ioannidis. In Piraeus, another key municipality, New Democracy’s incumbent Vassilis Michaloliakos was beaten into second place by independent Yiannis Moralis
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Newsletter 85 - 05/08/2016
In a non-paper issued on Wednesday, the Finance Ministry clarified that budget revenues had beaten... deficit data in 2009, which made it clear that the country’s public finances were off track.... The budget deficit was already way off track at 14.4 billion euros, with spending ahead
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Athens braces for return of lenders, discussion about measures
PoliticsGreek Politics. “If the annual fiscal target is seen being missed or beaten, the positive fiscal measures will be increased or contained accordingly.” Houliarakis also admitted that some households can expect to be worse off... being burdened and others being better off,” said the minister. This was by far the clearest explanation
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Newsletter 137 -27/10/2017
, was left to be discussed on Friday. One of the first items to be crossed off the list..., though, is by how much the target will be beaten and how much of the excess surplus the coalition... euros off target. Net revenues came to 34.76 billion euros, missing their target by 2.25 billion. Gross
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Tsipras makes pre-emptive peace offering to next KINAL leader ahead of final vote
PoliticsGreek Politicson the task of “renewal” within KINAL. If he wins on Sunday, he will have beaten off challenges from...Ahead of Sunday’s run-off vote in the KINAL leadership election, SYRIZA’s president Alexis Tsipras has made an indirect appeal to the centre-left party’s next head to focus on attacking
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Newsletter 431 - 12/07/2024
Parliament elections, New Democracy is finding it hard to shake off the downbeat feeling among voters, while... picked the leftist opposition. Social democrats PASOK are narrowly beaten into third place with 11.1... as an attempt to put off any clash between Kasselakis and his detractors within the party. Significantly
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Newsletter 49 - 30/10/2015
. If no candidate gets more than half the votes, then a run-off between the leading two hopefuls will be held... Greece’s economic sentiment (ESI) improved for the second straight month in October, when it rose by 3.4 points to 86.5. Despite rising by 11.3 points over the last two month, ESI is down 12.6 points so
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Newsletter 176 -28/09/2018
and Kammenos met last Friday to put on a show of unity. The meeting seemed aimed at killing off the speculation... of a potential of faster than anticipated growth as past reforms start paying off. This positive... to lowest since March after strong streak The ESI remained above the 100-mark in September for a sixth
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Tech start-ups click into place to fight off Greek recession
Societythe crisis, they were mostly living off state contracts. There was also innovation in this area...) and launch entrepreneurial schemes that required limited financing to get off the ground. Since they need
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