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Tough choices ahead for Mitsotakis, as reforms risk irking voters
PoliticsGreek Politicsattempts to defend the measure by describing it as “5+1 days” rather than six has been widely ridiculed
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Primary balance 4 bln above target in Jul due to underspend and tax performance
EconomyMacroeconomyeuros and roughly 1 billion euros in non-allocated expenditure. Interest payments came to 5.84 billion euros, above target by 436 million. Last year, interest payments were 5 billion euros in the same
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Diffuse support fuels speculation about change to electoral law
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor entering Parliament from 3 to 5 pct and/or reducing the threshold needed for the first party... since September, rising by 1 point to 23 pct, the political landscape is still fragmented. PASOK
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Industry boosts economic sentiment, consumer confidence at lowest in almost 2 yrs
EconomyMacroeconomy12-month period, the ESI in September is roughly 5 points above October last year. The average ESI... almost 1 point from October last year. Construction confidence also dropped to 5.2 points, from 9.8
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Sale of 10 pct stake in NBG ups taxpayer losses from banks to 34 bln
EconomyBankingsettled at 7.55 euros/share, which was a 5 pct discount from the closing price of the previous Friday... that marginally exceeded 1 billion euros. The government presented the latest transaction as a success and a vote
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Alpha NII at 1.22 bln in 9M, fees up by 11 pct YoY at 306 mln
EconomyBankingeuros, from 4 billion in the previous quarter and 5 billion in September last year. Capital The fully loaded Common Equity Tier 1 (CET1) ratio in 9M stood at 15.5 percent, from 13.7 percent a year ago
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Import prices rise by 0.1 pct YoY in Jan, led by energy and non-durables
EconomyMacroeconomypercent. The monthly movements were led by petroleum products with 5 percent, crude oil and gas with 3..., intermediate goods rose by 1 percent, capital goods were down 0.6 percent and durables down by 0.6
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Newsletter 469 - 04/07/2025
a rise of 1 pct. Pharmaceuticals increased by 14.3 pct YoY. The data has a strong seasonal component as orthodox Easter last year fell on May 5, compared to April this year.
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Seasonal factors take unemployment rate to 8.6 pct in Q2 - lowest since 2008
EconomyMacroeconomyto 4.39 million in Q2, increasing by 5 percent compared to the previous quarter and rising by 1.4... Aegean at 3.8 percent and Crete at 4.1 percent. The number of long-term unemployed (more than 1 year
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Government faces pushback on labour law amid lukewarm response to tax cuts
PoliticsGreek Politicsbeen called for October 1 as polls show widespread indifference towards the tax cuts package which... their view remained as negative as before. Only 5 pct told pollsters they came away with a better impression
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