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Countdown to Macedonia name deal vote has PM weighing up support
PoliticsForeign Policythe agreement. It is also hoping that there will be a strong turnout. During a press conference last week... will respect this decision” – as long as more than 50 percent participate in the referendum and the result... for the agreement. This prompted a strong reaction from junior coalition partner Independent Greeks (ANEL
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Mitsotakis earns space to govern with big win, Tsipras limits damage
PoliticsGreek Politics, there was an expectation that support for SYRIZA would have been below 30 percent. The result delivers a strong... and exit polls indicated that SYRIZA would gain less than 30 percent of the vote. The result means that Tsipras’s leadership of the party will not be challenged. In fact, he has a strong base to work from
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Mitsotakis buoyed by poll ratings, boost to growth narrative
PoliticsGreek Politicsappears to have secured strong backing for some of the key policy decisions it has taken so far... stressed the strong US interest in exporting LNG to Greece and using it as a hub to move the fuel... reforms and privatisations, would very probably imply lower, rather than higher public debt,” he
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Newsletter 238 -07/02/2020
according to the baseline will stay low, albeit higher than the rest of the euro area, hovering around... that it plans to leverage the Hercules mechanism for more than 6 billion euros-worth of loan... Greece’s manufacturing industry had signalled a strong start to the year as production and new business
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Newsletter 262 -04/09/2020
was much higher than the EU28 average in 2018, which stood at 1.3 pct. As a percentage of overall... to arms deals carried out between 1996 and 2001. GDP falls by 15.2 pct YoY in Q2 Greece draws strong... and a strong performance in the secondary market. Following a positive start on the sovereign bond
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SYRIZA and KINAL focus on settling internal issues as they clear path to elections
PoliticsGreek Politicsthan delegates. The vote for both has been scheduled for May 15 and will undoubtedly be the focus... to show the broader public and his internal critics that he still has strong backing within the left..., but by attracting a strong turnout of party members. SYRIZA’s membership drives have so far had limited
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Machinations intensify as announcement of election date approaches
PoliticsGreek Politicssending a message to voters that he considers the matter nothing more than a case of individuals... administration is that the party gains a “strong” percentage of support in the elections so that it can...’s performance in the vote, rather than its political intentions, Androulakis hopes to fend off
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Latest IMF estimates see growth of 2.3 pct, return of permanent primary surpluses
EconomyMacroeconomysees growth of 2.3 pct in 2023, which makes the IMF slightly more optimistic than the Greek... at just 1.2 pct. CPI will remain strong in 2023, dropping to 4 pct, from 9.8 pct in 2022 and falling... than triples to 1.4 pct next year and reach 2 pct of GDP in 2027 and 2028. The cyclically adjusted
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Unpopular tax bill set to become law despite objections
PoliticsGreek Politicsin the teeth of strong objections from opposition parties and legal concerns raised by Parliament’s... the conservatives for going after individual taxpayers and small earners rather than corporations and wealth... to blunt tools rather than using the technology available to pinpoint evasion. The legislation has
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PM gambles on toned-down marriage equality proposal to win over right-wing objectors
PoliticsGreek Politicsout by the government’s political strategists is more encouraging than a series of opinion polls published, which show that there is strong opposition to the proposed legislation. The local media... is more open to the idea of same-sex marriage than in the past and that even centre-right and right
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