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Newsletter 148 -26/01/2018
than his public comments suggest so far and if Mitsotakis’s decision to extricate himself from.... Given that no more than 30 electronic auctions have been conducted in the last month of 2017, the 2018... than the annual budgeted target. The budget primary balance was confirmed at a surplus of 1.94 billion
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Government takes another stab at media regulation among growing scepticism
Societyadvance on the current figure of zero - would inevitably have far greater political symbolism than... 35 million euros – significantly less than was raised per license in the last round, but adding up... process is a considerably more low-key affair than the much-hyped auction of 2016, which the Greek Union
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Banks meet NPE targets in Q4, reduction at highest rate since start of crisis
EconomyMacroeconomy, which is 1.6 billion lower than the target of 95.9 billion. NPL stock came to 65.1 billion, which is around 800 million lower than the target of 65.9 billion. The NPE ratio stood at 48.6 percent in Q4, slightly higher than the anticipated target of 48.5 percent. The breakdown by lending segment
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Collateral damage in Europe?
Agorainvestments – at times undertaken in a less than transparent manner – in German car manufacturing, nuclear..., it is obvious that Germany and France are in a better point of departure than say Greece and Hungary... in DC and taken seriously in Beijing than going it alone. In theory such unity of purpose
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Extra taxation did not increase revenues in 2017
EconomyFeaturesbillion euros, 589 million euros higher than the figure for 86.78 billion in 2017. In 2017, the total... from 52.73 billion to 52.22 billion euros, lower than that for 2016 which stood at 52.34 billion... tax intakes lower than initially thought at 20.77 billion and 27.39 billion, respectively. Tax
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Is the cost of Greece's public sector soaring again?
EconomyFeatures. As such, they are more a reflection of the use of private contracts in the public sector than the number... Secretaries, 29 “Horizontal” Directors General, and more than 60 Sectoral Directors General. The appointees... the direct exercise of political discretion even further down the seniority scale than previously
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Newsletter 164 -01/06/2018
shows that 69 percent of debtors owe less than 15,000 euros each for an aggregate amount of 3.36... of 5,609 from the previous quarter. Slightly more than 11 percent of debtors owe between 15... than that for the relevant period in 2017, despite a decline of 18.1 million QoQ. Figures from
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Banks meet NPE targets in Q1 but mortgage reductions remain slow
EconomyMacroeconomywas reduced by 4.7 billion euros quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) to 92.4 billion 1.3 billion lower than the target... at 48.5 percent in Q1, slightly higher than the anticipated target of 48.1 percent. The main driver... euros, around 600 million lower than the target. Residential NPLs landed exactly on target at 20.5
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After an international agreement comes the domestic politics
Agoramade it clear that he will not support the agreement, leaving SYRIZA (which has 145 MPs) with less than... the common sense behind the agreement rather than use it as a stick to beat his main political opponent... than Greece’s. New Democracy also provided indirect support for the public rallies on this matter
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May budget primary surplus confirmed at 1.53 bln as revenues rise, PIB spending falls
EconomyMacroeconomythan the target by 561 million euros. The breakdown showed that in the first five months of the year... for the month of May, higher than the figure of 3.23 billion in April and 12.4 percent higher than... of 328 million in the first five months of the year, 518 million better than the target.
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