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Budget balance up to May well above target as VAT brings in 650 mln more than planned
EconomyMacroeconomyof 103 million euros, from a 1.88 billion euros surplus in May 2025. The overall balance is better than
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Greece relies on labour, VAT and green taxes more than any EU member
EconomyFeaturesin the first quintile than the national average. This is often driven by the withdrawal of means
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Newsletter 127 - 14/07/2017
of less than 5 percent. It is not clear if it will be a reopening of the five-year bond that matures... to the markets in the summer of 2018 rather than recent reports. The unnamed official added... at the end of 2016 from 348.77 a year ago. The decline largely reflects a drop by more than 26 billion
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Piraeus Bank records net losses of 6 mln in Q1, further reduction in NPE stock
EconomyBankingand were flat YoY as external economic environment conditions remained challenging, the bank noted... billion in Q4, while eligible deferred tax credit (DTC) also stayed flat at 4.1 billion. 2020 Agenda... bps to more than 310 bps in 2020. It also sees the cost to income ratio falling below 45 percent
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Polls give ND clear lead as SYRIZA struggles to shape narrative
PoliticsGreek Politicsseats. The alternative of a SYRIZA-PASOK-MeRA25 combination only yields 145 seats. As they get closer..., the winner would only have to get around 37 percent of votes to win outright. Stability versus chaos... the link between earnings and social security payments, which ND abolished in favour of flat
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Where is Odysseus? Part 6 - Potential real GDP
Agorathat the future population is expected to be slightly bigger than suggested in the data from 2018. Consequently, in blog 17, the working-age population, on baseline, was also projected to be larger than initially thought in 2018. In blog 18, we found a slightly larger labor force than was assumed in 2018
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Newsletter 461 - 09/05/2025
centre-right New Democracy party and no sign of encouragement for any opposition party other than far...-left group’s support slightly higher than for PASOK, which remains in third place. The social democrats saw their backing dip from 12.8 pct to 12.4 pct. Although the gap between the two parties is slight
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Central government debt drops to 323.7 bln in Q3 on bond repayments
EconomyMacroeconomyflat for yet another quarter at 14.87 billion, making up 4.6 percent of total debt. Moreover, repos... million to 7.16 billion, while loans held by the Bank of Greece stayed flat at 3.32 billion... and 16.67 years respectively. The debt breakdown by residual maturity revealed long-term (more than 5
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Greece in 2014: Where are we?
Agora. For example, how can the primary surplus be the standard bearer for "Grecovery" when more than 3... has widened to nearly 10 billion euros and less than half of the funds allocated for social... as Greeks dip into their savings to pay their rising tax bills and make up for a lack of income
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A macroeconomic assessment of the Cypriot economy after the haircut
AgoraWhy has the Cypriot economy faced a smaller than anticipated dip for 2013? What is the relevance... and services. The speed of this process of internal devaluation has helped facilitate a smaller than... is a temporary rather than a permanent drop in income, and because they do not consider bank deposits
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