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Personal responsibility and public healthcare: Greece on a wing and a prayer
Agoraoverpower collective interests, imposing any top-down solutions is going to be a big challenge... with theatres and cinemas, to be shut down on Friday. Maybe the picture posted on social media a day... as the premier prepared to shut down schools last Monday (after avoiding calls for worshippers to be prevented
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Current account shows deficit of 1.29 bln in January
EconomyMacroeconomyof goods. The deficit for the balance of goods came to 2 billion euros, down by 9.2 percent YoY. The services balance was down YoY by 17 percent, coming to 383.5 million euros. The travel balance showed... of 82.2 million in December, down from 105.7 million last year. The BoG noted that the deterioration
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Poverty declined in 2018, births continued to lag behind deaths
Societyhas been made available, the number of marriages of all types came to 47,428, down by 5.4 percent... was 10.9 percent overall, down from 12.8 percent in 2017. The rate came to 12.4 percent for men... percent of total expenditure was reserved for food, down slightly from 20.4 percent in the previous
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Outdoor gatherings with hint of protest raise concerns over relaxation of lockdown
PoliticsGreek Politicsbetween New Democracy’s agenda on policing and the use of force to crack down on the flouting... to a hastening, rather than a slowing down of lockdown relaxation. During a regular briefing... their lives during an anti-MoU protest march. Alexis Tsipras’s decision to turn down an invitation
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Newsletter 250 -11/05/2020
months of the year, down by 1.20 billion euros compared to the same period last year, according... was unchanged month-on-month at 320 million. Gg entities edged down by 6 million month-on-month, while... remotely, equal to 1.2 million employees. Broken down by type of profession, the researchers found
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Piraeus Bank posts net loss of 232 mln in Q1 due to Covid-19 impact
EconomyBankingexpenses) dropped by 11 percent QoQ and by 14 percent YoY. Deposits in Greece edged down to 46.5... management fee paid to the NPE servicer. Excluding the fee, operating expenses are down 16 percent QoQ...-down to a new wholly owned banking subsidiary (“NewCo”), along with the vast majority of Piraeus Bank
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Unemployment drops to 16.2 pct in Q1, excluding furloughed workers
EconomyMacroeconomy, down by 0.1 pps since Q4 2019 while the rate for females stood at 19.3 percent, down by 1.2 percent... worked in the past) edged down to 19.2 percent from 20.1 percent in Q4. The number of long-term
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ND feeling fiscal pressure as row over media handouts rumbles on
PoliticsGreek Politics. Revenues over the first five months of the year are down by 7.3 pct year-on-year and intakes from... that revenues from tourism were down by 51 pct over the first four months of the year. Although Greece... the government in return for cash. He proposed that the two parties sit down together to create
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BoG highlights how Covid-19 compounds legacy issues and structural challenges
Economywas already slowing down from the first quarter of the year when GDP dropped by 0.9 pct on an annual basis... their downward trajectory in the first quarter of the year at roughly 61 billion euros, down by 7.6... with further actions to reduce NPEs and the profitability is already taking a blow, down by 87 pct
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Rise in "imported" Covid-19 cases a source of jitters for tourism industry
PoliticsGreek Politicshas slowed down considerably over recent weeks, with the exception of highly localised outbreaks.... Industry participants in the region now expect tourism this year to be down to just 20 percent... season, down from 18 billion euros in 2019. Arrivals at Athens International Airport, the biggest
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