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GDP growth slows to 0.3 pct QoQ, investments underwhelm
EconomyMacroeconomyto the latest Finance Ministry estimates included in the final 2025 budget, the estimate for 2024... for next year. In its growth forecasts, the Parliamentary Budget Office expects the economy to grow... released in October, the IMF sees growth of 2.3 percent in 2024 and 2 pct in 2025. In its latest economic
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Mitsotakis dismisses poll speculation, promises swift housing relief and rural support
PoliticsGreek Politicsbenefits will begin to materialise next year. Over 2 billion euros is earmarked for income support... “surprise” in the upcoming 2026 budget debate, suggesting that additional relief measures may... and will help farmers rebuild their herds. The funds will come directly from the state budget
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PM highlights latest stage of relief rollout as government seeks to improve mood
PoliticsGreek Politicsselective successes while concealing failures. He argued that the extension of the “My Home 2” housing...” budget as a façade, claiming it masks a continued “tax raid” through inflation and indirect taxation... as this year, there is also the prospect that once Eurostat signs off on the execution of the 2025 budget
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DBRS leaves rating unchanged at 'BBB', cautions about risks and challenges
Economy, the general government posted a budget surplus of 2.6 pct of GDP. Strong fiscal outcomes and solid growth... in September 2025. The government’s 2026 budget projects further debt reduction to 138.2 pct of GDP... 1–2 years and remains on a clear downward path supported by strong fiscal performance and structural
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Newsletter 502 - 24/04/2026
to regain control of the narrative. It also uses up all available fiscal space under the EU’s new budget.... The Greek authorities also revealed this week that they see growth lower by 0.4 points, at 2 pct... up most of the one billion euros of fiscal space agreed with Brussels, thanks to last year’s budget
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Coalition in a bind as debt relief slips away and more austerity looms
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe possibility of having to implement around 2 billion euros in new austerity measures next year... year, on top of around 4 billion euros already included in the draft budget, presents the coalition... the government can find all of the extra 2 billion euros, or more than 1 percent of GDP, it will need
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Newsletter 21 - 27/03/2015
budget. SYRIZA has pledged to replace ENFIA with a tax on large properties, after a downward... SYRIZA had initially predicted the new tax would return 2 billion less in revenue and has refrained... in January year-on-year. 2 Anomie flows from the top Many citizens are confounded by the behaviour
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Newsletter 49 - 30/10/2015
of 2 billion euros. A few days later, on October 27, the government’s council for economic policy... in September. October’s rise took the index to -59.6. Overall,ESI is down 12.6 points this year. 2... included in the 2016 draft budget. Greece is also in discussion with its lenders about tightening
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Coalition poised to unveil pension reform proposals, hoping to avoid cuts
EconomyProgrammeand granting of pensions. 2) The final pension amount will be made up by the national and the main... the amount that around 2 million people in the public and private sectors contribute to the social security...) for supplementary pensions. The 2016 budget voted on December 5 incorporated pension interventions
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Newsletter 62 - 12/02/2016
unaffordably generous” and unsustainable since the Greek budget subsidises the pension system... at an accelerating pace of 5.2 percent in December from an upward revised 2 percent in November. December’s... is the highest since January 2007. 2 A rock and a hard place PM can no longer charm his way out
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