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Newsletter 14 - 06/02/2015
the temporary arrangement is in place. The broader agreement, to be clinched before Greece has to pay.... The government has around 1.5 billion euros in cash reserves and about the same amount from general... Parliament, this one will reject them out of hand. Instead, what Varoufakis has indicated that Athens
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Athens taking more time to consider 2019 measures ahead of budget talks
EconomyProgrammethese plans and it appears that no such decision has been taken so far. The measures in question... to announce at the Thessaloniki Expo on September 8 has suffered a setback. Tsipras was meant to have... in Athens in September to begin talks regarding next year’s budget. The draft version has
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Athens moves ahead with expansionary measures as it waits for lenders' response
EconomyProgrammeand the primary surplus targets that Greece has to meet over the coming years. In their entirety, the fiscal impact of the interventions is seen exceeding the fiscal space the government has estimated... on Thursday is the proposal the government has made regarding putting 5.5 billion euros from the cash
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New Omicron measures met with exasperation by business and scepticism from opposition
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAlarming new data on the spread of the Omicron variant in Greece has led the government to announce... case load to generate the peak hospitalisations of the Delta wave. Although the government has... of the requirement for Covid passes which has been in force since November. In light of demands from
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Government lines up bills on education and housing, mulls social media controls for minors
PoliticsGreek Politicstax on dormant real estate on the books of the banks. The government says the measure aims to help... form of protective measure to limit children’s exposure to harmful social media content. Clearly... as part of a national digital strategy. The measures are likely to stop short of an outright ban
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Greek pensions: The thorniest issue in talks between Athens and lenders
EconomyProgrammethe state from subsidising these payments. The new government said this measure would lead to a 35... their scepticism about this measure The combined fiscal impact from the suspension of the zero-deficit... and make up the bulk of the measures totalling 1.15 billion with a negative fiscal impact that have been
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First-wave champion Greece stumbles at vaccine roll-out
Agorathe start of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in February 2020 and October 8, 2021, Greece has recorded a total.... The daily case load at the peak of this wave has increased compared to the earlier ones, exceeding 4,000... has allowed more cases to be detected. At the time of writing, Greece is one of the most intensively
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Newsletter 86 - 26/08/2016
of 102.2 in Q3 2008, the apartment prices index has fallen by 41.7 percent to a record low of 59.6... of a Greek bank into IFC’s trade finance programme. The IFC has an exposure of nearly 600 million euros... SYRIZA was in opposition. He also underlined that the judicial process has to run its course. He
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Newsletter 37 - 31/07/2015
a final decision on its participation even into the new year and only after there has been clear... organisation has made abundantly clear is necessary to make Greece’s debt sustainable. Given that a range... reached by August 20, when Greece has a 3.5-billion-euro bond held by the European Central Bank
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Mitsotakis lets budget measures sink in as he mulls presidential pick
PoliticsGreek Politicsis the selection of a presidential candidate. The issue has been threatening to become a lightning rod... the government to act. In recent days, Androulakis has gone on the offensive on a number of other issues... of payments from EU agricultural policy has been taken under supervision due to serious irregularities, which
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