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More concern for coalition than cheer for SYRIZA in latest poll figures
PoliticsGreek Politicsbut the poll’s findings should be more of a source of concern for the New Democracy-led government than... popularity, for instance, was at 36 percent in September, which was eight points lower than in May... points more than the vacuous anti-memorandum Independent Greeks. This can hardly be a cause
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Newsletter 104 - 27/01/2017
be. Tsakalotos claimed that all the participants acknowledged that the Greek economy performed better than...) to 615 million euros in the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2016, from 310 million in the previous quarter... to 101.8 percent in Q1 2016. In addition, the household debt over assets ratio more than doubled, from
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Piraeus Bank records net losses of 6 mln in Q1, further reduction in NPE stock
EconomyBankingbps to more than 310 bps in 2020. It also sees the cost to income ratio falling below 45 percent (from 53 percent currently) and the loan to deposit ratio at less than 105 percent (from 116 percent..., Piraeus Bank Group was operationally (rather than legally) separated into two pillars, ‘Piraeus Bank
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The first cut is the deepest? Greek pension reforms in context
EconomyFeaturesof public protests against austerity. Often the public rhetoric obscures rather than conveys...’ pensions directly out of the budget rather than through a pension fund. State pensions amounted... more than twice the size of the entire public procurement bill. However successive governments have
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Tsipras and SYRIZA: More old than new
Agoraproblem has been that Tsipras has failed to establish any ethical boundaries within his own government
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Athens looks for improving mood rather than tangible outcome from Erdogan visit
PoliticsForeign Policyparties refrain from behavior that harms each other’s interests, there is no problem… We will continue
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Deposit inflows of 1.07 bln in June, highest in first half of 2016
EconomyMacroeconomyof 761 million euros more than double those of households (368 million). Despite the turnaround... of 1.05 billion from savings accounts coupled with time outflows of 321 million which more than..., more than triple from May figure of 556 million. As a result, the absolute figure reached
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Overdue contributions rise at accelerating pace of 615 mln in Q4, stock climbs to 17.54 bln
EconomyMacroeconomy) to 615 million euros in the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2016, from 310 million in the previous quarter..., to 314,917 at the end of December. The breakdown displays 40.4 percent of debtors owe less than... side of the spectrum, 1,159 debtors (just 0.4 percent of total) owe more than 1 million each
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Government pledges land register action in bid to address everyday problems
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAfter being forced to pledge action to tackle the growing sun lounger problem at Greek resorts... and civil engineers try to complete transactions in person. Experts claim that the problem has been... that an online system giving applicants a priority number (rather than an ad hoc scheme involving scrap
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C/A deficit to April narrows by 34.7 pct boosted by services
EconomyMacroeconomyin the trade and current transfers’ deficits by 184 and 33 million respectively more than offsetting... is excluded, the trade balance showed an improvement since the drop in imports was higher than.... The year to date net flow widened accordingly to 5.6 billion from 310 million at the end of the first
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