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First vote for president leaves coalition with uphill task to avoid snap elections
PoliticsGreek PoliticsA total of 160 MPs backed the government's presidential candidate, Stavros Dimas, on Wednesday, which was one vote less than the coalition's most conservative estimates. Another 135 voted "present" and five were absent. The result was a troubling but not catastrophic one for the government
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The one question SYRIZA needs to answer
Agorashort of 6 billion in total interest payments, bonds held by the ECB and other eurozone national
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Q3 unemployment falls to 25.5 pct, lowest since 2012, but long-term jobless reach new high
EconomyMacroeconomyof total employed with more than two thirds of part timers indicating that they could not find a full
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Newsletter 8 - 19/12/2014
turnaround within those parties (which have 22 MPs in total) over the next few days. The final option
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Piraeus Bank seals milestone deal with KKR over 1.2 bln of non-core assets
EconomyBankingof business loans and accounting for more than 70 percent of the total NPLs. Piraeus surprised
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Samaras softens stance on snap elections as decisive presidential vote looms
PoliticsGreek Politicsfrom Democratic Left (DIMAR) and Independent Greeks, who have a total of 22 MPs. Following the prime
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Sharp monthly rise in unpaid taxes to 1.59 bln for November
EconomyMacroeconomythat those targets were set as a percentage of collections over total taxes due from those audits
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Greek budget primary surplus at 3.57 bln by end of November, beating target by 691 mln
EconomyMacroeconomyin line with target. As a result, total expenditure was cut 7 percent to 43.21 billion in the 11-month
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How snap elections in Greece fit into Samaras's strategy
Agora, New Democracy garnered an unthinkably poor 18.8 percent in the May vote (the lowest total in its
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Greek deposits almost unchanged at 164.3 bln in November
EconomyMacroeconomyrespectively. Total deposits - which also include euro and non-euro area residents – fell by 451 million
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