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Unlocking inactive properties: How vacant homes distort Greece's property market
EconomyFeaturesstock - over 2.2 million units - is vacant and "inactive," meaning it is neither used by owners nor
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Primary surplus up to June at 4.48 bln as taxes continue to outperform, spending contained
EconomyMacroeconomydeficit in June 2025. The overall balance is better than the target by 2.2 billion euros. Revenues At 36
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Net interest income and fees push Piraeus Bank profits to 617 mln in H1
EconomyBankingthe liquidity coverage ratio stood at 207 percent. Asset quality The NPE ratio was 2.2 percent in H1, from
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A quarter-pounder democracy
AgoraJust under 17 years ago, New York Times commentator Thomas Friedman put forward a theory that if McDonald’s restaurants open in a country, a functioning democracy and institutions won’t be far behind... be put into practice, the institutional malaise will continue. Until our institutional weaknesses
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Greece's 2014 fiscal gap suddenly appears bigger, much bigger
Economyexecutive board member Joerg Asmussen appears to have put the economic plan in some doubt, while... 50 percent or so. Asmussen also put the financing gap, the difference between how much money Greece
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Coalition in a bind as debt relief slips away and more austerity looms
PoliticsGreek Politicsput the Greek government on tenterhooks. There are indications that genuine concern has gripped Prime... whole crisis strategy is in danger of being put in doubt. Samaras, Venizelos and Stournaras have
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Coalition agrees policy framework: Purpose unclear, impact doubtful
PoliticsGreek PoliticsSixteen months after one-time rivals Antonis Samaras and Evangelos Venizelos put aside their differences to form a coalition government, the two have agreed on a policy framework..., the policy framework drawn up last year by the three parties put one goal above all others: Renegotiation
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How big is Greek fiscal gap? Will cuts be needed? Here's our Q&A
PoliticsGreek Politicsto be and what measures the government would have to take to fill it. In the meantime, we have put... said that government officials speaking anonymously after the EU summit put the figure at no more
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Does new troika visit spell fresh drama for Greece? Maybe not
Economy,” as International Monetary Fund’s managing director Christine Lagarde put it. Greece presented a draft... Central Bank executive board member Joerg Asmussen put a figure next to what until then was a vague
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When will Greek banks operate as credit institutions again?
Agorais happening at an uninterrupted pace for more than two years now. Put otherwise, since the beginning of 2011... such companies alive. Put otherwise, the normalisation of the credit transmission mechanism through
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