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  1. Q4 GDP contracts 1.2 pct QoQ, leading to recession of 0.1 pct for 2016
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    is worse than the 0.4 percent contraction posted in the flash estimates released on February 14... of 2 percent in Q3, which also reflected a low base effect. The Q4 figure is also worse than the flash... due to a sharp drop in services by 7.4 percent that more than offset a rise in goods by 3 percent

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  2. Revenues beat target by 3.9 pct in Feb, remain above target for year

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    in February amounted to 331 million euros, 83 million or one-third higher than target. As a result, net... into account, the better than expected revenue performance in January, the 2-month gross revenues... exceeded the target by 1.7 billion euros largely due to higher than expected revenues from corporate

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  3. Piraeus Bank posts minor losses in Q4, almost breaking even for 2016
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    EconomyBanking

    , the NPL stock declined further by more than 1 billion QoQ to 24.38 billion in Q4 from 25.35... was more than offset by loan deleveraging and further pressure on loan spreads. For the whole year, NII... of 2016. Gross loans increased by more than 1.4 billion euros QoQ to 66.6 billion in Q4, yet

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  4. Compromise proposal on table ahead of Friday's Eurogroup
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    EconomyProgramme

    by spreading measures over two years (2019 and 2020), with more than two thirds of the pension cuts and less than one third of the tax reform being implemented in 2019 and the remainder taking effect in 2020... reportedly proposed a ceiling on pension cuts so no pensioner suffers a reduction of more than 20-25

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  5. Greek banks meet NPE and NPL reduction targets in Q4 2016, mostly on write-offs
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    EconomyBanking

    was reduced to 104.8 billion, a billion lower than target of 105.8 billion, while the NPL pile stood at 75.9 billion, 400 million better than target of 76.3 billion. A similar trend was also evident... portfolio. In contrast, the default rate was lower than the cure rate in residential loans. The key

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  6. Racist attacks fell in 2016, report by monitoring body indicates
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    Society

    Network documented, through interviews, 95 incidents of racist violence involving more than 130... incidents, with more than 300 victims, registered by the same network in 2015. In 31 of the incidents..., more than one victim was targeted, while in 54 cases the attack was committed by two or more people

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  7. Foreign minister opens up about EU concerns
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    of the grouping than Greece’s chief diplomat he chose to begin his speech by calling on the EU to abandon... on stereotypical ideas rather than policies.” An autonomous role? Some SYRIZA members and government... note than most of his EU counterparts, saying that “the negotiations between the European Union

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  8. Don't celebrate a French reconnection for EU just yet
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    Agora

    the latter have a corrosive effect on the European project. Voter pool More than 7.5 million French... packaging. It has many guises and can be much more insidious than we care to admit. If mainstream... or Beppe Grillo than to admit that something might be wrong. It is true that the EU has taken

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  9. Significant drop in number of Greek citizenships granted
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    Society

    The number of Greek citizenships granted to non-Greeks more than halved in the two years from 2013 to 2015, EU data has shown. Eurostat figures show that there were 7,000 fewer new Greeks in 2015 than in the previous year and 15,500 fewer than in 2013, when the number of new citizenship approvals

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  10. Rise in new overdue taxes slows to 658 mln in March, stock edges up to 94.3 bln
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    of tax debtors dropped for the second successive month by more than 77,900 and landed below the 4-million... at the end of March, of which more than three quarters stemmed from companies (39.1 billion... to an average figure of 293 million per month, which is higher than the monthly average of 206 million

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