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Greece passes latest omnibus bill, looks to next actions ahead
EconomyProgramme-tranche of 2 billion euros was voted through the Greek Parliament on Thursday evening. The bill... to disburse the 2 billion euros on Monday. As we indicated on Thursday, a series of pending issues... of non-performing loans for both corporate and households. 2) An overhaul of the pension system
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Wide range of exacting issues lie ahead for Greece in first bailout review
EconomyProgrammecuts imposed in 2012 that would create a fiscal gap up to 2 percent of GDP (3.7 billion euros) and the huge stock of pending pensions, which have an estimated cost in excess of 2 billion. Non... sub-tranches of 2 and 1 billion were disbursed on November 23 and December 22 after
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Asking Greece to stack more austerity measures ignores past failings
Agorato 2018 and commit to an added 2 percent of GDP on stand-by in the event that targets are missed... an upwards-revised surplus of 705 million euros. This meant the target was missed by more than 2... package worth 2 percent of GDP, equally split between revenues and cuts, 2.4 billion euros on each side
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Commission sees lower Greek financing needs, provides timetable for course of programme
EconomyProgrammedisbursed last August, 2 billion in November and another 1 billion in December. In addition, another... euros (1.5 billion in Q1, 9.6 billion in Q2, 2 billion in Q3 and 5.1 billion in Q4), while an amount of 2 billion will be used for state deposit financing. Finally, for the first 8 months of 2018
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Newsletter 78 - 17/06/2016
if the primary surplus target of 3.5 percent is reduced to 2 percent after 2018, Greece’s debt is BoG concludes that even if primary surplus target of 3.5 percent is reduced to 2 percent after 2018... target. 2 The chill of post-truth politics Crude Brexit debate is reminiscent of Grexit referendum
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Budget execution to Aug shows 3.8 bln primary surplus, 2.8 bln better than target
EconomyMacroeconomyexpenditure coming in 2 billion lower than target, while revenues beat target by 640 million. The monthly... lower than the target. Indirect taxes rebounded 11.2 percent to 2 billion in August, outperforming... billion, 2 billion lower than the target. According to the breakdown, salaries and pensions dropped
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Newsletter 93 - 21/10/2016
coupled with a higher increase of 2 percent in mining and quarrying turnover. Despite the modest... percent, while mining and quarrying turnover expanded at a higher pace of 2 percent. However.... 2 Polycrisis at the heart of Europe The EU requires real leadership to overcome its current
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Newsletter 97 - 25/11/2016
and 2018. In specific, the primary surplus is estimated to reach 1.09 percent of GDP this year and 2... this year and 2 percent next year. limited and will thus constrain credit expansion and banks’ revenue.... 2 A rude awakening Once ardent Europhiles, polls suggest Greeks have fallen out of love with the EU
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NBG turns profitable in Q3, NPE stock drops further by 1 billion
EconomyBankingrespectively. Unlike NPEs, the domestic NPL formation increased to 188 million in Q3, from just 2 million in Q2... are estimated at around 2 billion each. Since NPEs have decreased by 1.9 billion year to date... million hit from lower interest rates on reserves. On the cost front, operating expenses declined by 2
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Newsletter 103 - 20/01/2017
on TrainOSE’s debt to OSE, amounting to more than 700 million, is pending. 2 Budget primary surplus almost... in industry rebounded by 2 percent in November after an upward revised drop of 2.9 percent in October... recorded in consumer non-durables (+5.2 percent) and intermediate goods (+2 percent). On the flipside
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