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Spotlight on To Potami as doubts surface about Macedonia name deal
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAfter months on the fringes of Greece’s political scene, the small centrist party To Potami... of the domestic uproar caused by Zaev’s comments, which also elicited a response from the government... that Theodorakis may be looking to use his party’s stance on the issue as a bargaining chip to win
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Budget approved as party machinations intensify
PoliticsGreek Politicsand radio. Tsipras and his colleagues presented the government’s economic plan as the first... Democracy, claiming that the opposition party’s policy programme will cost 9.7 billion euros. Houliarakis... rate has fallen by 7 points. Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos hit back at New Democracy’s claims
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Population projections show demographic problem set to worsen in coming decades
SocietyGreece’s demographic problem when began to manifest at the start of the decade is deepening rapidly... by the University of Thessaly. The problem of Greece’s falling population has been exacerbated by Greece’s long... reluctant to have children. During the eight years of crisis, the country’s population declined
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S&P keeps B+ rating and positive outlook, stresses factors for stronger growth
EconomyStandard and Poor’s opened the credit rating review cycle of the new year for Greece by affirming... for additional debt relief that essentially marked the successful completion of the country’s third adjustment... for S&P. At ‘B+’, Greece’s sovereign debt is seen as highly speculative by S&P, one notch behind
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Tsipras goes big on minimum wage, hoping to enhance election hopes
PoliticsGreek Politicswas that the minimum wage should go up by between 5 and 10 percent. Greece’s lenders also reportedly.... Employers had also called for the government to show restraint. The prime minister’s decision to ignore... campaign. Citing the wage decision and the announcement of Greece’s first post-programme bond issue
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BoG and HFSF schemes under scrutiny as banks look for a way forward on bad loans
EconomyBankingWhile authorities await the second post-programme survey report, Greece’s banks have continued... percent by 2021. In its end of January report on Greece’s four systemic banks, the rating agency... stated. Eurobank’s Project Pillar non-performing loan sale is moving to its next phase and attracted
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Tsipras on the spot again following minister's latest outburst
PoliticsGreek Politicsfollowing his criticism of New Democracy’s European Parliament candidate Stelios Kympouropolos over...’s abrasive style has put the SYRIZA leader in a tough spot. The alternate minister’s reaction... of Kympouropoulos’s hiring in the Government Gazette. Although Polakis later tried to explain his comments
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Newsletter 206 -17/05/2019
for the interventions from the institutions. Thursday’s Eurogroup proved inconclusive as the lenders indicated they would not take an official position on the expansionary measures and the government’s... by doubts from Greece’s central banker, Yannis Stournaras, who publicly doubted whether there is enough
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ND unfurls array of policies as it prepares for final stretch of campaign
PoliticsGreek Politicstopped the list of priorities for New Democracy should it win next month’s vote, but Friday’s event... that Friday’s presentation touched upon. The emphasis, though, is very much on getting the economy moving... to be raised at double the increase in GDP. According to New Democracy’s calculations, the minimum wage (which
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Outright majority in sight for ND as campaign takes detour through recent past
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe campaign for the July 7 elections has taken a brief detour through Greece’s recent past... to draw new dividing lines between Greece’s main parties. The retrospective was triggered by former...’s intervention was aimed at erasing any doubt about his support for the current centre-right leader
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