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  1. Percentage of Greeks at risk of poverty or social exclusion edges up to 35.7
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    Society

    by slightly less than 2 percentage points. In absolute numbers, 892,763 households and their 2,529,005... less than 20 percent of their total work potential during the past year) amounted to 1.2 million.... The breakdown in specific groups displayed that more than half of males in unemployment were at risk

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  2. Greek primary budget surplus rises to 2.53 bln at end of September
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    Economy

    reflects lower expenditure (1.96 billion euros better than target), which more than offset lower Public..., 1.24 billion better than target. Cost containment mainly reflects a double-digit drop in grants

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  3. The arduous road of privatisation in Greece
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    Agora

    high prices and under completely different economic circumstances than the ones which prevail today... to the privatisation process are far more important than the amount of revenue to be generated... with the Financial Times in September 2012 - may have done more harm than intended. Labour unions

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  4. ECB results light up path for Greek coalition's bailout exit plan

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    as little as 18 million euros in new capital. The figure is infinitely lower than the one being... to raise no more than 18 million euros, it leaves the 11.4 billion euros remaining... be more than adequate as precautionary support. Although Sunday’s figures from the ECB are a timely boost

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  5. Primary surplus narrows to 2.4 bln in October as revenues miss target

    Economy

    remains 356 million better than target. The overperformance is mainly attributed to lower primary expenditure (by 1.46 billion) and interest payments (by 400 million) more than offsetting the revenue... and bringing the 10-month figure down 5.6 percent to 33.83 billion eurps, 1.46 billion better than the target

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  6. Is there (sustainable) growth in Greece?
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    Agora

    . In 2013 more than 17.5 million tourists visited Greece, numbers not seen since Athens staged..., Greece exported less products and services than it did in 2012. While countries in the eurozone’s... than domestic consumption, export capacity and investment. There is no silver bullet for Greece’s

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  7. The institutional weakness poisoning Greek politics

    Agora

    are published online each year but in reality they are just a catalogue of each member’s assets rather than... voters that it is straightening up its act. The checks uncovered less than 10 cases in which anything untoward was found, suggesting the whole process was nothing more than a sop. Karatzaferis

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  8. Greek public debt at 321.7 bln in Q3, average weighted maturity at 16.5 years

    Economy

    -Bills (by 1.65 billion) more than offsetting net increases in repos (by 2.36 billion) and Financial... maturity of more than 5 years, while the remaining 22 percent is almost equally split between short (up... at 16.72 billion. More than half of this amount relates to general government (gg) entities (8.62

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  9. Credit down by 3.2 pct in Oct for lowest contraction since Dec 2011

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    than 200 million MoM to 26.59 billion, while the monthly flow turned negative with net deductions at 97... by more than 450 million euros MoM, for the first time since June, to 101.58 billion. The annual rate..., while balances slipped by more than 17 percent over this period. Heightened non-performing loans

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  10. Challenging three days of diplomatic talks, protests and budget voting ahead for Greece

    PoliticsForeign Policy

    charged than in the past because of a hunger strike by Nikos Romanos, a friend of Grigoropoulos who... strike more than three weeks ago to convince authorities to allow him to do so. His request has... than 7,000 police on duty and authorities will want to avoid any repeat of the rioting that occurred

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