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Newsletter 102 - 13/01/2017
with him was that Athens is prepared to back down a little in order to facilitate an agreement... 2018, the appropriate “bucket” of measures would apply in order to make up for the shortfall... to a double-digit rise of 19 percent for Greek regional airports (excluding Athens International
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Newsletter 239 -14/02/2020
, where the exit of asylum seekers will be strictly controlled, as a way of restoring order... imagined on the immigration front. At 60,000, arrivals for 2019 were almost double those... administrative region issued a condemnation of the emergency legislative order. In their statement
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Newsletter 101 - 23/12/2016
will soon be required to make difficult political decisions in order for the review to be wrapped up.... The double-digit rise in receipts fully reflects an increase in foreign arrivals by 17.3 percent to 2.17... durables post double-digit turnover increases The industrial turnover index declined by 2.8 percent
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Complex privatisation fund faces tall order to reduce Greek debt
EconomyOn top of the fiscal measures yielding 3 percent of GDP by 2018, one of the key prior actions for the conclusion of Greece’s first programme involves the establishment of a new privatisation fund. This was envisaged in the Eurozone Summit statement of l...
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Officials order wider use of masks as upward trend for Covid-19 cases continues
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe use of face masks for debates in Parliament became compulsory on Wednesday as Greek authorities try to re-instill a sense of caution in the public after seeing the number of coronavirus cases rise significantly this week. The decision to make MPs an...
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Newsletter 62 - 12/02/2016
, though, was his statement that in order to achieve a medium-term primary surplus target of 3.5 percent of GDP, Greece needs to take measures in the order of some 4–5 percent of GDP (up to 8.8 billion... euros etc. The income ceiling would be set at 55,000 euros, where a 5 percent discount would apply
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Record FDI flow into Greece raises bar, but is it sustainable?
EconomyFeaturesGreece has reported record flows of inward investment in 2021 and looks set to exceed the amount..., and set a new record since the Bank of Greece began publishing data in 2002. For the current year, the government has set the bar at 7-8 billion euros, with almost 5 billion already secured in H1, which
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Much ground to cover as Greece, lenders prepare to resume talks
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreece and its lenders are due to resume on Saturday negotiations aimed at agreeing a set... and that the Greek side still believes it is being asked to yield too far in order to secure more... Panousis had publicly called on Tsipras to give the order for the occupation of Athens University’s main
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Is Greece facing a new migration crisis?
SocietyIn absolute numbers, the recent arrivals are lower by an order of magnitude compared to 2015, when several... reframed migration policy in line with its focus on a “law and order” agenda. One of its first acts... defining it as a public order issue, rather than a citizenship or humanitarian issue. Prior
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General gov't cash surplus rises to 3.54 bln at end of Feb, more than double last year
EconomyMacroeconomyThe Greek general government (gg) primary cash surplus in the first two months of 2014 more than doubled to 3.54 billion from 1.45 billion last year, according to the gg bulletin released by the Ministry of Finance on Wednesday. The gg cash balance also...
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