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Tsipras braces for SYRIZA congress, weighs up reshuffle options
PoliticsGreek Politicsand the International Monetary Fund now, even if they are not due to be rolled out until 2018. Tsipras reportedly... on until March next year, according to weekend press reports. The doubts over the IMF’s role as well
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Budget primary surplus to Sept reaches 5.45 bln on strong revenue performance
EconomyMacroeconomyfrom deficit of 1.04 billion until August. Revenues Revenues (before tax refunds) surged by 48.5... arrears via the special appropriation reached 1.71 billion euros by September from 1.34 billion until
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Tsipras ponders risking reshuffle to finish review on time, get debt talks going
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe prime minister was due to fly to Beijing. Until late last week, it was thought that Tsipras would wait until after the completion of the second review before conducting a reshuffle because
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Budget primary surplus to Sept surges to 5.44 bln on solid tax revenues
EconomyMacroeconomyof 1.04 billion until August. Revenues As it was also evident in the preliminary bulletin, revenues... by September from 1.34 billion until August. At the same time, interest payments dropped 2.6 percent to 4.85
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Houliarakis provides clearest view so far on Athens's debt relief expectations
EconomyProgrammebenchmark for debt sustainability and that it should remain below 15 percent of GDP until 2030, and below 20..., assumes an average GDP growth of 3.3 percent and primary surplus of 3.5 percent until 2028. Under
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First day of review talks highlights differences as Athens eyes tight schedule
EconomyProgrammethe first round of discussions that lasted until October 27, former Economy Minister Giorgos Stathakis... the government proposes tax debt created until the law is voted be included in the process.
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Capital controls trigger big rise in card use and VAT revenues, Bank of Greece data shows
EconomyMacroeconomydown by 0.5, 2.5 and 0.8 percent respectively. In addition, the VAT rate remained stable until June... justifies a rise in VAT revenues by 600–900 million euros until Q2 2016. The BoG also notes
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Decisive week for Greek programme begins with proposal from Athens
EconomyProgrammebe discussed and resolved, which include: a) reforms as well as fiscal targets until 2018 and beyond... until an agreement is reached on all three issues”, Tsakalotos stressed. He also repeated
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Athens searching for compromise formula should IMF remain on board
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat no decision can be taken until the Fund’s board clarifies its intentions regarding the Greek programme. Athens is also reluctant to make any painful concessions until it is clear that a deal
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Athens gears up for deal with lenders, pending news from IMF
PoliticsGreek Politicsto make. Athens will look for incentives to counter-balance the effect of a compromise that until... the implementation of the lower tax-free threshold until 2019 and allowing a clause for the measure
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