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An issue of statistical significance in Greece
Agorathan 1 percent of GDP in 2009. To put things in perspective, the only period in the last 20 years... deficit for that year should have been just under 4 percent of GDP, rather than the final figure..., was pumped up so it would be bigger than Ireland’s, which was 14.3 percent, and therefore the biggest
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Newsletter 7 - 12/12/2014
of the presidential vote has two distinct advantages. By holding the ballots on December 17, 23 and 29, rather than... reaction to Samaras’s unorthodox move was less than overwhelming. Whereas earlier some Democratic Left... of September, that value stood at 17 billion and was still materially lower than the 22.5 billion
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Newsletter 10 - 09/01/2015
indicated that more than one in ten voters are still undecided (Palmos 14.8 and GPO 13.1 percent... that goes to the winning party rather than hand New Democracy a surprising victory. The percentage... target for SYRIZA, the current opinion poll leader, than New Democracy. The new centre-left party
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Newsletter 18 - 06/03/2015
, more than 700 million (corresponding to at least half of the issue) was covered from the accounts of general government entities held More than 700 million of the T-Bill issue was covered from... allowing the government to utilise cash reserves of more than 300 million from two general government
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Deposit rates stable, avg loan rate below 5 pct for first time since 2002
EconomyMacroeconomy). The February rate is the second lowest reading during euro membership, while the marginal rise put an end... control more than 90 percent of total deposits. Back in 2012, there were more than 15 banks... the eurozone average of 1.03 percent and much higher than other comparable countries such as Spain
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Holding out for a (reformist) hero
Agorain a political battle with the leftist party rather than implement the measures being demanded... Lula, rather than Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez. However, this bubble also burst when Tsipras decided... in its most recent review (summer 2014, more than a year after Mitsotakis was appointed
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Newsletter 63 - 19/02/2016
the government took the decision to put the army in charge of the hotspots. Nevertheless... President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. When Kostas Karamanlis attended the Istanbul nuptials more than... further than the customary unauthorised overflights in its attempts to rattle Athens and strengthen its
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Potential changes to constitution and electoral law move onto main agenda
PoliticsGreek Politicsabout the government’s ideas on the constitutional review rather than the adjustment programme, which... has discussed publicly is for the Greek president to be elected by voters rather than Parliament... the possibility of the final proposals on constitutional reform being put to a referendum, although she
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Three-quarters of Greek workforce struggles to make ends meet
Society) and Slovaks (33 percent) said they put in more than 40 hours a week in their primary job. On the other hand... than double the EU average, according to a report by Eurofound, an EU agency that studies living... “well”. The results suggest that Greeks are more likely than their EU peers to worry about work “always
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Parents main source of income for most young Greeks
Societyin society. In political terms, young Greeks emerged as more left-leaning than their parents... with financial support. A direct consequence of this is that when parents were asked if they manage to put... the job market, the young people surveyed still came across as more optimistic than their parents in some
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