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Review gathers pace as mission chiefs prepare for Athens return
EconomyProgramme. It is estimated that at this stage, around 20 of the 95 prior actions have been ticked off. One.... The two sides have reportedly agreed that the Melitis power station in Florina will be one... of the 95 prior actions, they could prove one of the tougher nuts to crack. Apart from the sale
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Pensions continue to be main source of income for half of Greek households
Societyfall into the category of long-term unemployed. One in five households has a member who gets paid... the other responses remained broadly in line with recent years. Almost one fifth (19.6 percent) of households had one member with overdue tax obligations. For the coming year, one in four households
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Newsletter 173 -07/09/2018
, Mitsotakis to follow In what will be one of the last throws of the dice he has to recover support, Prime... but indicated he would maintain a policy of one hiring for every five departures... with the institutions that it can change to one-in-one-out from next year. GDP growth slows to 0.2 pct QoQ in Q2
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Newsletter 213 -07/01/2019
to waste any time after the July 7 elections if New Democracy wins an outright majority, as one more... for voters not to abstain, a message that capped off a week spent reiterating his party’s proposals... and then re-open on August 19. It is likely that the new economic development law will be one
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Parties tussle over scope of surveillance probe as latest poll puts Mitsotakis in frame
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe focus off recent events concerning the New Democracy administration and onto what they believe...-tapping. A total of 142 opposition MPs voted for the centre-left party’s motion (one was absent). Only... conclusion. Parliamentary speaker Konstantinos Tassoulas said that the panel will have one month to deliver
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Fitch leaves rating unchanged at 'BB', sees small recession and primary deficit next year
Economyunchanged, leaving the agency one notch behind S&P that has Greece at ‘BB+’ and two notches from investment grade. It is also one notch ahead of Moody’s that has its own scale and is currently at ‘Ba3’. Fitch last upgraded Greece in January 2020 by one notch, while the latest upgrade for the country came
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S&P leaves Greece a notch away from investment grade as outlook blurs
EconomyGreece had one rating upgrade by S&P in April to just one notch away from investment grade and one... goal of returning to the top rating. A few days earlier, Fitch left the rating at ‘BB’, which is one notch behind S&P and Moody’s last month also kept Greece at ‘Ba3’, which is one notch behind Fitch
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SYRIZA on defensive as election campaign draws to close
PoliticsGreek Politicsin 2015 is one that the party has never been able to shake off and the ex-minister’s comments seemed... in one of the worst possible ways as one of its leading figures, and a former minister, Giorgos... strategies is one of the reasons that New Democracy is entering the final days of the campaign
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After Greece clambers back to investment grade, what lies ahead?
AgoraS&P confirmed last Friday most expectations and upgraded Greece by one notch to ‘BBB-‘ with stable... in speculative territory in April 2010, when S&P downgraded it to ‘BB+’ with a negative outlook, just one month... with state guarantees. All actions paid off and now banks have dropped their NPE ratio to below 6
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Greek C/A deficit to July narrowed to just 156 mln with boost from tourism
EconomyMacroeconomyfollowing a Eurogroup decision in November 2012. Excluding this one-off item, the July “recurring” figure... to shrink by 98 percent yoy to just 160 million, or by 74% yoy to 1.66 billion excluding the one-off
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