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First round of local elections leave Greek politics finely balanced
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDemocracy’s incumbent Vassilis Michaloliakos was beaten into second place by independent Yiannis Moralis...The initial impression (based on faulty exit polls) that Sunday’s local elections would... wide open for the following Sunday’s runoff votes and European Parliament elections. The voting
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Government’s effort to revive economic success story narrative heavily reliant on RRF execution
PoliticsGreek Politicson Thursday with the aim of talking up the government’s economic record, while also drumming up some positive publicity ahead of the New Democracy leader’s keynote policy speech at the city’s... Greece, such as the completion of the city’s much-delayed metro system. During his appearance
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PASOK-KINAL emerges reunited from first conference under Androulakis leadership
PoliticsGreek Politicscommittee elections confirmed Androulakis’s mandate to lead the party to the next elections... to the party’s glory days, all surviving former leaders of the party addressed the delegates... the more ambivalent periods in the party’s history prior to and during the crisis. The speakers included
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Bravo, Bank of Greece
Agorafor Greece’s large Resilience and Recovery Plan (RRP) efforts.[1] The reader is struck by the clear... numbers the note is uneven in using the BoG’s own forecast for GDP in 2023, 2024, and 2025—in some tables the ratios to GDP are reported on the basis of the BoG’s own numbers, and in others
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Budget deficit of 6.38 bln in Aug confirmed; target beaten due to one offs
EconomyMacroeconomyThe budget primary balance was confirmed at a deficit of 6.38 billion euros in the first eight months of 2021, compared with a deficit of 5.48 billion in the same period last year, the final Finance Ministry (MoF) budget execution data showed on Monday....
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VAT and income taxes buoy revenue performance as primary surplus target is beaten in Sep
EconomyMacroeconomyThe budget primary balance in September was confirmed at a surplus of almost 6 billion euros, compared to a surplus of 52 million euros in the same month of 2022, according to the final Finance Ministry (MoF) budget execution data released on Wednesday....
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Second round of local elections deliver worrying results for PM, glimmer of hope for opposition
PoliticsGreek Politics’s dominance at a regional and municipal level failed to materialise. In fact, Sunday’s outcome could be interpreted as marking the emergence of the first cracks on the centre-right party’s grip... positives to take away since ND’s strong performances in electoral encounters began in 2019. After
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Greece and Turkey press on with high‑level meeting despite renewed frictions
PoliticsForeign Policyto find solutions to the key bilateral differences. Turkey’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan recently... in a different environment, one that is casting a shadow over bilateral relations. To begin with, Turkey has recently issued long‑term Navtex notices reflecting Ankara’s views on shared competence in the Aegean
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North Macedonia's new president triggers diplomatic row with Greece on her first day
PoliticsForeign Policyby the country’s new President or whether he will avoid risking further harm to bilateral relations... female president of North Macedonia, but she refused to do so under the country’s constitutional name and pledged to uphold the constitution and laws of “Macedonia’ instead. Greece’s Ambassador to Skopje
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Report on PPC’s viability ruffles feathers and shakes share price
EconomyFeatures-owned entity’s stock price falling earlier this week after it raised concerns about PPC’s viability... of Greece’s lenders when it came to restructuring the country’s economy. PPC’s latest report showed that net profits had fallen by 47.9 percent in 2017, coming to 88.7 million euros against last year’s
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