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Despite sharp increase in Dec, current account deficit improves markedly in 2025 to 14.11 bln
EconomyMacroeconomybillion euros in December, from 3.19 billion euros in the same month last year. Total imports came to 7.57 billion euros in December, from 7.01 billion last year. At the same time, total exports came... 2024. The total services balance was 416.5 million euros, from 493.6 million last year. During
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Quarterly unemployment stable at 8.3 pct in Q4 as labour market continues to improve
EconomyMacroeconomyto the tourism sector peak in Q3 each year and the build-up in hiring for the high season in Q2. A total... percent of the total unemployed. Alarmingly, the largest portion, 100,100, has not worked for more than...). Part-time employment was 5.3 percent of total, while the share of persons with temporary jobs was 8.9
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Jan current account deficit at 1.29 bln, goods and services balances improve
EconomyMacroeconomycame to 2.81 billion euros in January, from 2.91 billion euros in the same month last year. Total imports came to 6.39 billion euros in January, from 6.91 billion last year. At the same time, total... 2025. The total services balance was 328.3 million euros, from 247.8 million last year. During
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Hiring balance stays negative in Jan as new hires drop YoY
EconomyMacroeconomy. Total hirings in January came to 199,215 versus 217,959 departures. Voluntary departures accounted for roughly 37 pct of the total, with the remaining classed as layoffs and termination of contracts... 2025, the balance was positive with 77,074 more hires, against a balance of 70,349 in 2024. Total
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ECB tests find negligible capital shortfalls at Greek banks
Economy(Eurobank) appearing to have a capital shortfall and even in that case it being less than 18 million euros. The test comprises of two main pillars for the identification of bank’s capital shortfalls. The first is an Asset Quality Review (AQR), with a capital benchmark of Common Equity Tier 1 (CET1) of 8
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Greek banks less reliant on Eurosystem funding in September
EconomyMacroeconomypercent to below 25 percent of total Eurosystem funding from July 2012, reaching its lowest level... to reduce Eurosystem funding to total assets ratio below 15 percent by 2017, while current ratios range
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Greece trying to lay 'phantom' pensions to rest
SocietyYiannis Vroutsis said that a total of 51,551 bogus pensions had been discovered with the most... defrauded the fund out of a total of about 10 million euros. In May, Alternate Finance Minister Christos
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Does new troika visit spell fresh drama for Greece? Maybe not
Economyeuros were used for last year's debt buyback without increasing the total "financial envelope... year. At the same time, the IMF is scheduled to receive a total 9.1 billion euros in repayments
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Greek banks’ reliance on Eurosystem fell by 2.36 bln in October
Economypercent of total Eurosystem funding from July 2012, reaching its lowest level at 5 percent... troika guidelines, Greek banks should reduce Eurosystem funding to total assets ratio below 15 percent
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A fierce political clash over medicine prices in Greece
PoliticsGreek Politicslast year a total of about 5.5 billion euros on some 6,800 drugs available on the local market.... Of the 5.5 billion spent in total last year, more than 900 million (almost 17 percent) was on generic
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