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A closer look at Greece's Q3 2023 national accounts
Agoraproductivity growth rates. The economies are slowing down, while employment growth is still holding up for now—this moves productivity growth rates down. It is consistent with the finding that the labor
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Kasselakis pushes back against growing speculation about centre-left alliance
PoliticsGreek PoliticsA social media post by SYRIZA leader Stefanos Kasselakis has made the already-complicated process of Greece’s centre-left parties finding common ground even more complex, and less likely. Kasselakis... a genuine challenge to the government. He identified sorting out the party’s finances, holding
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Greek banks' Eurosystem funding jumps to 87.4 bln in Jan, ELA at 5.2 bln
EconomyMacroeconomypurposes. Greek banks are holding almost 38 billion EFSF bonds. According to their 9-month financial...Greek banks’ Eurosystem funding jumped by 31.44 billion euros month on month (MoM) to 87.48 billion... scheduled publication for February is due next week. The stock of Central Bank funding is the highest
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Athens buoyed by EU, US support over maritime spat with Turkey
PoliticsForeign Policyon the Turkey–Libya maritime border deal. A common statement adopted by the EU leaders during... on Thursday decided to appoint a special envoy to Libya. This will be Ambassador Christodoulos Lazaris. His mission will be to maintain contact with all sides in Libya in order to closely monitor developments
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After signing EastMed pipeline pact, Athens aims to tackle Turkey challenge
PoliticsForeign Policymemoranda with the Tripoli-based government in Libya. Officials in Athens stress, however... following Turkey's intervention in Libya, the message to Ankara in the joint statement they issued... in Libya presents a dangerous threat to wider regional stability.” The statement also noted
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A busy year of diplomacy for Athens, but Greek-Turkish ties stagnate
PoliticsForeign Policycountries. But it also accomplished a rapprochement with Libya. Greece’s decision to extend its... was its rapprochement with Libya. That was accomplished with numerous visits by Greek officials, including... for the first time a high-level meeting on Libya on November 12, in Paris. Greece had been excluded twice from
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Centre-left parties jockey for leading role in post-election landscape
PoliticsGreek Politicsnot augur well for Androulakis and his vision, however PASOK sources argue that the large portion
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Polls show drastic erosion of trust in institutions, but ND retaining political dominance
PoliticsGreek Politicscaptures a pattern of dramatic erosion, in some cases reversal, of trust in public institutions among the Greek public. The police force has seen an equally dramatic reversal in perceptions with trust... to surveys published this week. The findings present a troubling counterpoint to polls which show New
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QE arrives for Greece
Agorawas followed by an equally dramatic turnaround in yields for Greek debt within the past three weeks.... Hence, the dramatic decision to include Greece – for the first time – in the ECB’s Pandemic Emergency... near-term funding needs. The additional funding requirements will be considerable. But going
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Mitsotakis apology for wildfires gets sceptical reception
PoliticsGreek Politicsin the aftermath of the 2018 Mati fire. The opposition leader put forward a seven-point recovery plan, which... with emergency funding of half a billion euros from the budget, will be directed by the Prime... areas for funding earmarked in the national recovery plan for reforestation. The PM said the areas
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