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Gov't mounts defence of pension plan but lenders' approval may take time
PoliticsGreek Politics. On Wednesday, the coalition announced a point-by-point rebuttal of opposition criticism regarding its... pensions would increase by 1 percentage point (from 3 to 4 percent). Government spokeswoman Olga
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Uncomfortable parallels: The Greek and British referendums
Agora) is a worse place now than it was at some foggy point in the past where we achieved peak Blighty.” Last year... and doing away with the annoying details of reality, what the experts says and what the numbers point... – of the myths that politicians have only been too happy to allow to flourish because at some point it served
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Newsletter 105 - 03/02/2017
that the Greek economy is still searching for an equilibrium point after eight years of recession, while it has... point (bp) to 0.70 percent in December, a record low since 2001, Bank of Greece (BoG) data showed..., namely construction confidence (-7.8 points) and consumer confidence (-1 point). Over last twelve months
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Coalition eyes electoral change, polls show wide lead for New Democracy
PoliticsGreek Politics, New Democracy is on 32 percent (when just valid ballots are calculated), up half a point from last... percentage point to 8 percent, which is the same as far-right Golden Dawn in joint-third place... it will be this year. There was a two-point rise in the popularity of New Democracy leader Kyriakos
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More changes needed to unlock private sector's potential, report says
EconomyFeaturespoint out that “onerous reporting obligations and bureaucratic hurdles” also discouraged innovators...; at the lowest point of the development in 2014, it was at about 42 percent,” the authors explain... as well as well as a reliable and predictable tax system,” they point out. The report suggests
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Poll suggests broad support for border closure, continued concern about islands
PoliticsGreek Politics. According to Pulse, backing for the centre-right party has risen by 1 point since January, to 39 pct, while support for SYRIZA dropped by half a percentage point to 25. The only other significant movement was a gain of one point for ultra-nationalist Greek Solution, from 4.5 to 5.5 pct.
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Travel balance falls by 70.9 pct in September as 12.6 bln in receipts vanish in aggregate
EconomyMacroeconomyperiod point to a revenue loss of 1.78 billion euros from this market alone. Revenues from French... per type of border-crossing point, using detailed data on official flows at border-crossing points and historical data on traveller flow distribution by month and border-crossing point. BoG said
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Travel balance falls by 62.9 pct in November
EconomyMacroeconomyof Greece’s strongest revenue markets and the numbers for the current aggregate period point... point, using detailed data on official flows at border-crossing points and historical data on traveller flow distribution by month and border-crossing point. BoG said that as of July 2020, conduct
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Greece - On the importance of productivity growth
Agoradeclining gradually to around 8 million by 2100 (at which point it is expected to stabilize). This means... (Eurostat’s baseline projection). From a political point of view, the projected decline in the Greek... – e.g., for inter-generational equity - rather than later. From an economic point of view
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Dire conditions at public hospitals fuel opposition attacks on govt competence
PoliticsGreek Politicsof errors and inefficiencies to point out. For SYRIZA, this is a welcome and timely boost because... have done a worse job. In political terms, the left-wing party now has a chance to point..., by pressing home on the point regarding the hiring of medical staff, Tsipras also wants to send
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