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Athens looks for improving mood rather than tangible outcome from Erdogan visit
PoliticsForeign PolicyAthens sees the High-Level Cooperation Council between Greece and Turkey, due to take place this Thursday, as yet another opportunity for both sides to retain the positive mood in bilateral relations, which has existed for roughly the last 10 months. Ho...
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Wages index rises by 8 pct YoY in Q2, taking growth to more than 2 years
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece’s seasonally adjusted (SA) Wages Index maintained a solid growth trend in Q2, rising by 8 percent year-on-year (YoY), from 7.4 percent growth in the first quarter of 2024, Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) figures showed on Thursday. The wa...
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Newsletter 4 - 21/11/2014
rather than negative impact on revenue collection. Its interpretation is that the huge stock of 70... months of this year, a rate of less than 150 million per month. The 2015 budget tabled in parliament on Friday foresees a primary surplus of 1.8 percent of GDP in 2014. This is lower than both the 2.3
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Brussels talks inconclusive, Tsipras has tough sell at home if deal reached
PoliticsGreek Politics. According to reports, this year’s target will be 1 percent of GDP rather than 3 percent, 2 percent in 2016 rather than 4.5 percent, 3 percent in 2017 and 3.5 percent from 2018 onwards. The impact of the two... claim a moral rather than material victory on this point, stressing that SYRIZA’s objections
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The republic without a government
AgoraMore than three months after the general elections, Germany still does not have a new government..., then a rising number of citizens will use their ballot to exert even greater punishment than in September... of building the new Berlin airport is by now legend. Already delayed by more than two years, citizens
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The virus may be slowing, but fake news is still rampant
Agoraspread faster than the virus itself. This type of news knew no borders, nor did they distinguish age... with the virus was overestimated, because they thought the virus was much less dangerous than...% of respondents believed that the number of infected people in Kosovo is much higher than reported
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Newsletter 398 - 20/10/2023
was held because no candidate gained more than 43 pct in the first round. The recipe of SYRIZA... Bakoyannis in the second round, even though the ND-backed candidate was less than a couple of percentage... parties, was far more representative of the public mood than the run-offs. At the same time
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Greece's imminent funding problems: All the numbers you need
EconomyProgramme. It is estimated that an amount of more than 800 million euros is held by foreigners that took up about... obligations in the last month of each quarter. Greece has also to pay in March more than 1 billion euros... government and lower-than-expected revenues from the settlement of tax arrears. Since the new
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Regling and Wieser: The key points
Agoramore money than the IMF could do, with much better terms: longer maturities and much lower interest.... When you look at the fiscal deficit, it was higher in Greece than in Ireland and Portugal. When you... weaker than we thought. What needed to be fixed took longer because the implementation capacity
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Thinking outside of the box
Agoraby the government and more than four channels were already operating, has been questioned. Pappas’s... 200 million euros. The coalition’s view is that allowing more than four channels to operate... closed the state broadcaster because they wanted to silence it rather than for fiscal reasons
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