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Greece's never-ending election campaign
Agora. The parties’ adversarial style, the partisan media and an enduring passion for all things political... providing benefits for all. After almost a decade in the mire, the prospect of a business-friendly
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Greece drops to 72 in Doing Business index as long-term problems persist
EconomyFeatures, was recalibrated three times across the time series, but all recalculations show that Greece performed badly... remained consistently at 9 percent across all years while the recovery rate has dropped from a high
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Newsletter 181 -2/11/2018
then, is that the institutions appear to believe that not implementing the pension cuts and adopting all... all the tools at its disposal toward more growth-friendly, social-inclusive policies,” said Rice
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What Greece imports and why
EconomyFeatures10.5 percent of all imports came from in 2017. This was followed by Italy at 8.1 percent, Russia... such materials account for 24.2 percent of all imports. This means that Greece imports a vast amount of fossil
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Hirings balance negative by 120,087 in October on seasonal movements
EconomyMacroeconomy350,046 departures. Just under three quarters of all departures were layoffs with the remaining classed... and 46.3 percent, respectively. All five age brackets recorded a negative hirings balance during
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Final budget for 2019 excludes pension cuts, includes 910 mln in expansionary measures
EconomyMacroeconomymillion euros. Overall, the Finance Ministry sees improved performance on the revenue front across all... International Airport (AIA), which recently got the all clear, for an amount of 1.12 billion euros. In 2019
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Tsipras talks up 'positive' measures but polls show little impact so far
PoliticsGreek Politicspersonnel and other civil servants (all of which have been rubber stamped), along with the other fiscal... of respondents say they will not be affected at all by the promise, while 35 percent say that it will have
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BoG provides details of ambitious plans to slash NPLs via SPV
EconomyBankingexample of the scheme, BoG proposes the transfer of all denounced loans which stand at about 40... of provisions over loans will be brought down to 41 percent from 49 percent. All four systemic
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Eurobank to merge with Grivalia Properties and create SPV to cut bad loans
EconomyBankingin a single transaction to the SPV, which the bank will securitise in 2019. All shareholders will retain... billion to 4.6 billion by the end of 2019. NPEs from all categories will be transferred to the SPV
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Skopje moves ahead with name deal ratification as Athens watches closely
Foreign PolicyGreek Politicsparty (FYROM) of the completion of the constitutional amendments and of all its internal legal... and push forward the agreement. In the first scenario, there will be no agreement at all and FYROM has
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