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Election results in Greece lift uncertainty, for now
Agorashape. Following up and assessing the electoral vote in Greece is not a task for the faint-hearted... increased. Discontent following prolonged austerity, unemployment and a 30 percent drop in GDP within.... Voters have realized that. Now it’s up to the politicians. *Dimitris Apistoulas is the managing
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Lower expenditure helps Greece post 707 mln primary budget surplus in first half of 2014
Economyto 161 million to June from 142 million to May with the 6-month actual figure at 22.2 billion, up 3.9.... Direct taxes soared 37.4 percent in June, leading the 6-month figure up 9.3 percent to 8.58 billion, 451... drop at 27.7 percent in June and 10.5 percent in the 6-month to 3.35 billion, 247 million short
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Car sales continue to rise in July but at slower pace of 25.9 pct
EconomyMacroeconomyto 63,026 motor cars. In the corresponding period last year, there was a drop of 2.5 percent... readings in the second half of 2013. Passenger cars, which make up the bulk (more than 80 percent...' main source of financing for buying cars, making up the bulk of consumer credit disbursements so far
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S&P upgrades Greece one notch to B, sees growth in 2015
Economy20 percent lower than in 2007. The rating agency highlights that a drop in the unit labor cost... is seen picking up slowly. The return of growth is expected to help Greece achieve a primary surplus... to be raised in domestic local-law markets, 12 billion from the troika institutions and up to 5 billion from
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Crisis weakens confidence in Greek representative institutions
Societyin the police shot up 17 points on last year’s figures – the biggest hike for any institution – putting... in the office of state president is now at 51 percent, a significant drop from the 88 percent... of the people/citizens has grown from 56 to 67 percent in four years. while trust in social movements is up
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Level of corruption in Greek public sector seen falling slightly in 2014
Societythat have been started in Greece, for example, suggest an explanation as to why it has moved up the rankings by three points (and up seven points in the last two years to a score of 43 today),” Transparency...), Turkey (45) and Angola (19) were among the biggest fallers with a drop of 4 or 5 points, despite average
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Greek travel receipts continued upward course in October, rising by 4.6 pct
EconomyMacroeconomyto soaring international tourist arrivals, up by 18.9 percent to 1.84 million mitigated however.... In contrast, the drop in arrivals from Russia accelerated to -45.6 percent in October from -17.2 percent... international tourist arrivals at the main Greek airports soared 24.9 percent. They were up 15.1 percent
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Newsletter 10 - 09/01/2015
figure is the lowest reading since August 2012. The drop is mainly attributed to a 1.1 percent month... added to the electoral register. As the electoral campaign has started to heat up in Greece over... household bills, which make up the majority of arrears. The corporate consumers and the broader state
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Greek deposits fell by 7.7 bln in Feb and total of 24.6 bln since Dec
EconomyMacroeconomyto a drop of 15 percent on the end-November figure of 164.3 billion on the back of political... and are made up by central government at 6.6 billion, local government at 2.2 billion and social security... broadly stalled after the February 20 Eurogroup, yet they peaked up again the previous week.
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New unpaid taxes rising steadily, reach 3.5 bln in Q1
EconomyMacroeconomyto 72.98 billion euros in March from 73.25 billion in February. The year to date drop by 809 million... and legacy debt amounted to 76.45 billion euros at the end of March, up by 2.66 billion year to date... a new law on the settlement of tax arrears in up to 100 instalments. The initial fast-track process
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