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Only 11.5 pct of Greek businesses made web sales in 2016
Societyfinance or accounting software applications. Big data analysis is also absent from most Greek businesses
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Tax revenue overperformance leads budget primary surplus to 4.44 bln in 2016
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece’s budget primary surplus almost doubled to 4.44 billion euros in 2016 from 2.27 billion in 2015, the Finance Ministry (MoF) final budget execution bulletin showed on Tuesday. The preliminary figures published a week ago had displayed a primary surplus of 4.39 billion, 45 million lower than
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Tsipras dismisses snap polls and new measures as review deal hangs in balance
PoliticsGreek Politicsoverperformance last year (confirmed by the Finance Ministry on Tuesday). Perhaps, though
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Key fiscal differences lower expectations for Eurogroup
PoliticsGreek PoliticsIn comments during a television interview on Wednesday night, government spokesman Dimitris Tzanakopoulos appeared to rule out one of the rumoured compromise solutions between Greece and its lenders ahead of Thursday’s Eurogroup. There has been reports, and rumours swirling in Athens, that Finance
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Stocks down 0.4 pct this week after tumbling in wake of Eurogroup
Economyfinance ministers. As the result, the Athens Stock Exchange general index landed at 636.54 on Friday
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Tsipras tweaks message as chance of review compromise emerges
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe compromise is the position of Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos, who has publicly said in the past
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General gov't primary cash surplus up to 5 bln in 2016, arrears fall by 1.1 bln in Dec
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece’s general government (gg) primary cash surplus increased by 1 billion euros to 5 billion in 2016 from around 4 billion in the previous year, the Finance Ministry (MoF) gg bulletin revealed on Friday evening. The fiscal performance largely reflects an improvement in the surpluses
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IMF examines where programme went wrong, what lessons were learnt
EconomyProgrammefinance ministers during the EFF, with some serving as little as a few weeks. The continued deep recession
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Athens waits for move from lenders to get review going
PoliticsGreek Politics, perhaps waiting to gauge the situation in person when Alternate Finance Minister Giorgos Houliarakis takes
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Unemployment rate stable at 23 pct in November
EconomyMacroeconomyin the Aegean Islands. The latest estimates of the Finance Ministry (MoF), the European Commission (EC
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