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General govt primary cash surplus at 2.82 bln in July, arrears unchanged
EconomyMacroeconomyperiod, rising by 443 million (1 percent) to 43.03 billion in the first seven months of the year... lending was largely unchanged and came to 2.38 billion euros, or under 1 percent of the total
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Tsipras and Mitsotakis gear up for economy pledges, with eyes on fiscal targets
PoliticsGreek Politics-measures that Athens had agreed with the lenders in return for implementing the 1 percent of GDP... up with 1 billion euros to aid 800,000 low-income Greeks via a guaranteed minimum income scheme
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Mixed picture for government after first day of talks with creditors
EconomyProgrammeand 2020, as had originally been the plan. When the government agreed to legislate in 2017 1 percent... to yield another 1 percent of GDP, in 2020, it did so on the proviso that it would be able to implement
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Unemployment rate falls to 19 pct in Q2
EconomyMacroeconomy-on-quarter, taking the figure to under 1 million for the first time since Q3 2017. This was combined... declines. The number of long-term unemployed (over 1 year) declined for a sixth continuous quarter
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Tsakalotos states case on pension cuts in bid to overcome lenders' reluctance
EconomyProgrammearguments that the Greek government is hoping will help convince the institutions to allow the 1... budget due to be tabled to the House on October 1 will still contain plans for the pensions to be cut.
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Newsletter 175 -21/09/2018
that cutting pension spending by 1 percent of GDP from January, a few months before the general... on October 1 will still contain plans for the pensions to be cut. The discussion about next year’s
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Greece moves closer to lifting all capital controls as limits on cash withdrawals removed
EconomyMacroeconomylifted on cash withdrawals from October 1. In addition, Greeks abroad will be able to withdraw up... activities as well. From October 1, business people and companies will be able to send up to 100,000 euros
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Question mark over pension cuts in 2019 draft budget as Athens looks to lenders
EconomyProgrammeYork, that the 1 percent of GDP in pension spending reductions would not be included in the draft... workers and for there to be a 1 percent reduction on contributions for auxiliary pensions.
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Newsletter 179 -19/10/2018
pension cuts of 1 percent in GDP. One of the two scenarios in the economic plan – the one... of the differences between the draft budget tabled in Greek Parliament on October 1 and the plan sent
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Travel balance up by 1.4 pct in August as EU arrivals jump by 17 pct
EconomyMacroeconomypercent YoY to 10.35 billion euros. Average expenditure per trip edged down by 1 euro, or 0.2 percent... fell by nearly a quarter to 261.1 million. Receipts from cruises increased by just under 1 percent
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