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Greek retail index dropped 4.3 pct in January
EconomyMacroeconomydue to increased sales during the Christmas period more than offsetting the impact from the launch... the drawn-out revival in domestic consumption. The turnover headline index settled 28 percent lower than
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Greece's ultimate sacrifice for stability
Agorawanted to pass a law that would see courts hand migrants sentences that were 50 percent longer than... Greece has lost much, much more than a quarter of its GDP and a million jobs. Nick Malkoutzis
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DIMAR rules out coalition return but sees general elections on horizon
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAntonis Samaras and Deputy Premier Evangelos Venizelos, rather than their parties: New Democracy... there are serious ideological differences, rather than a disagreement over a particular policy
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Does return to markets signal end of Greek crisis? The perils of ignoring macro-economic fundamentals
Agora. For more than three years the credit contraction in the Greek economy has been deepening, with lending... and finance ministry, then Greece currently and in the foreseeable future has no better investor than
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Return to bond markets to buoy coalition, may leave SYRIZA floundering
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe borrowing cost is much higher than the bailout packages. Yet SYRIZA spent the last few years opposing... for snap polls later this year. SYRIZA has to aim for a better share of the vote than it received
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Greek jobless rate eases for fourth straight month but still at 26.7 pct
Economy. The peak number was recorded in September at 1.39 million. The number of unemployed is more than triple.... For all other age groups the unemployment rate has more than tripled over the past 5 years
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EU subsidies help push Q1 primary budget surplus to 1.57 bln, well above target
EconomyGreece’s budget execution showed a primary surplus of 1.57 billion euros in the first quarter of 2014, three times higher than the 520 million recorded in the corresponding period last year... better than target. The high PIB revenues posted in February led the 3-month figure to 2.04 billion
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Eurobank gears up for crucial but contentious capital increase
EconomyBanking), to sell its shares in the lender at not only less than it bought them last year but less than
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Central gov't cash deficit down to 1.14 bln in March
EconomyMacroeconomyimproves to 932 million. Nevertheless, the latter stands 634 million lower than the 3-month preliminary numbers released by the Ministry of Finance on April 14. More than half of the deviation is related
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SYRIZA stumbles again on way to May elections
PoliticsGreek Politicsattending Greek rather than Turkish-speaking schools. The leftists replaced her with a candidate from... a struggling PASOK. There are also questions about the party’s organisational capabilities given that more than
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