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Newsletter 87 - 09/09/2016
. In absolute terms, the trade deficit stood at 1.34 billion euros. 2 The refugee crisis as a charade... by some EU members last year. Since then, fences have gone up in order to prevent migrants leaving Greece... to recognise reality, while finding someone to pin the blame on. When German Interior Minister Thomas de
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Are hirings in the public sector out of control?
EconomyFeaturescreating superfluous public bodies in order to ensconce party relatives and friends.” The opposition... for the quality of public services. In Part 2 we will examine the evidence for the proliferation.... Announcing the new hiring plans, Interior Minister Panos Skourletis argued that the hirings would
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Newsletter 194 -15/02/2018
with PPC, in order to make the offer more attractive. There is no clear timetable for the new tender... said they supported the move. 2 Building permits rise by 18 pct in Nov Aggregate number of permits... at the same time. Speaking on Open TV, Interior Minister Alexis Haritsis insisted that possible technical
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Mitsotakis sets aside talk of next Greek president to meet Trump at White House
PoliticsGreek Politicson the agenda are likely to be the Greek government's plan to prepay this year up to 2 bln euros... nominated him in order to bolster a budding relationship with the wing of the centre-right party... for the former conservative interior minister to become president in 2015, even though New Democracy
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Newsletter 263 -11/09/2020
for property auctions to resume for some time now in order to manage their non-performing loan portfolio... few quarters and to take steps to prevent bad loans growing any further. 2 Unemployment rises.... A government delegation consisting of Migration Minister Notis Mitarakis, Interior Minister
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Tsipras conducts varied reshuffle in further bid to revitalise coalition
PoliticsGreek Politicsscrutiny. Also, New Democracy has pushed the law and order issue up the political agenda over recent... figures from outside the two coalition parties in order to give the impression of renewal. The reshuffle... be leaving the Interior Ministry to become SYRIZA’s secretary, several other frontline officials
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Omnibus bill goes to Parliament as Greece seeks to unlock 2 bln sub-tranche
EconomyProgrammeincluding the prior actions needed for the disbursement of the next sub-tranche of 2 billion. The bill... retirement age limits gradually increase as of August 19 until January 1, 2022. 2) The minimum pension... by November 15 to unlock the second sub-tranche of 1 billion. The two sub-tranches of 2 and 1 billion
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Budget for 2017 sees primary surplus at 2 pct on 2.6 bln fiscal measures, strong growth
EconomyMacroeconomyupward revised to 2 percent of GDP from 1.8 percent in the draft budget, above target of 1.75... anticipated impact of 2.45 billion relate to: 1) Income tax reform (716 million) 2) Change in rates... for pensioners (95 million) and other interventions (50 million). 2) Savings from non-public sector
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Where is Odysseus? Part 2 - Uncertainty
Agoraretirement age was increased twice in Greece.[2] This increases the potential pool of labor... reality, if fertility remains weak. For completeness, we also show in Figure 2 (above) what...). [2] Laws 4093/2012 and 4302/2014 increased the statutory retirement age from 60 to 62 and from 65
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Does the EU Commission suffer from optimism bias? (Part 2)
Agorathat member states (strategically) adopt this scenario as their own (for which there is evidence[2... emerges when we take the added effort to turn on System 2, or “Slow Thinking,” based on analysis... on “The Macroeconomy of the European Union: A Work in Progress” (in this blog text referred to as “the Book”). [2
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