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Check, please: How much Alexis Tsipras's first months cost Greece
Agoraand 3.7 percent in 2016. Both organisations saw private consumption and investments pick up due... the economy a clean run without uncertain factors allows it to deliver growth despite the fiscal effort... controls at the end of June 2015 to stave off an intense bank run that the economy contracted. Even
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Losing game: Another doomed effort to revive Greek football?
Agora, possibly boosted by the title-clinching run by Thessaloniki club PAOK, which became the first team..., Greek football clubs tend to be poorly run as businesses, offering meagre entertainment to fans... and its fierce rival, PAOK. Many in Greece saw this dispute as a proxy war between the club’s two owners
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Govt on alert for possible fallout from tapering of pandemic relief measures
PoliticsGreek Politicssince last year. However, measures such as tax advance refunds and deferrals of tax dues have run... saw a larger rise in deposits during this period. New Democracy argues that this money will find... flack. From June 1, there will be no more protection for main homes, leaving homeowners who have run
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Govt grabs opportunity offered by escape clause to entice voters with support package
Economyof competence, the government saw an opportunity to announce a sizeable support package... year and will run into next year. The Greek authorities must have a sense of what is to be expected... levels left over by the pandemic. By 2022, Greece will have run two years of fiscal deficits of roughly
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Newsletter 323 - 14/01/2022
not intend to reduce VAT but that its plans for tax cuts have not run their course yet. Opposition... by ELSTAT of consumer prices in Greece, which saw the index rise by 5.1 pct year-on-year in December... pct. With the SGP escape clause due to run out this year, these figures will need to turn
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Newsletter 324 - 21/01/2022
, which elected MEP Nikos Androulakis as its new leader in December, saw its support rise from 14.6... of 1.73 pct for the 10-year benchmark in the run up to the first issue of the new year. The first..., which is expected to be frontloaded as PEPP is due to run until the end of March. The second half
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Newsletter 326 - 28/01/2022
authorities are starting to run out of policy options. Only a couple of weeks ago, officials would shrug off... a lockdown that would run to March. On a monthly basis, there are some alarming signs for the Greek... was there to greet the aircraft and tells us about what she saw and heard. Nick Malkoutzis speaks to MacroPolis
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Newsletter 394 - 22/09/2023
the attention this week as it heads into a run-off vote on Sunday, between former labour minister Efi... on the first Sunday, they will have to confirm their membership so they can participate in the run-off... Greece’s civil war and during the military dictatorship. Some SYRIZA officials saw this not only
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Second round of local elections deliver worrying results for PM, glimmer of hope for opposition
PoliticsGreek Politicsand supported by main opposition party SYRIZA. Kouretas took around 60 pct of the votes in Sunday’s run... on social media. It should also be noted that the Communist Party (KKE) saw its candidates win six... of the first round are more representative of the mood of the country, rather than the run-off ballots
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Government lines up crackdown on NGOs as next piece in harsher migration policy
PoliticsGreek Politics, NGOs could be stripped from the official registry if they run migration campaigns counter.... Removal would not dissolve the organization but bar it from state-run reception and detention... to 2023, the poorest saw an 8.1 percent income decline as the wealthiest enjoyed a 13 percent boost
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