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Greece and creditors eye compromise to move review along
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe IMF’s European director Poul Thomsen described as “Mickey Mouse”) to be tougher than those already... cannot avoid and to delay the discussion on debt relief, rather than to secure concessions on Greece
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Unemployment rate resumes upward trend to 24.4 pct in Jan
EconomyMacroeconomyvariation, displayed similar trends, with the number of employed falling by more than 86,000 to 3.55... than 1 percentage point year on year and stood at 21.1 and 28.7 percent respectively in January
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Tax arrears increase by 2.76 bln in first two months of 2016, reach total of 86.9 bln
Economyreached 539 million, corresponding to more than one quarter of the annual target. The collection of new tax debt (excluding non-tax categories) stood at 10.4 percent less than half the annual target of 23
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The men who would be prime ministers
Agorathan his colleagues, should call for Tsipras to resign and snap elections to be held. It came... before him, he has more than the same single string to his bow. *This article first appeared in last
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Amid risk of 2015 re-run, Greece searching for deal with lenders
PoliticsGreek Politics, rather than an attempt to rush through bills to show that the government is able to act... perhaps being able to squeeze out a better deal than if the Europeans simply line up behind the IMF
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S&P highlights risks for Greek banking sector
EconomyGreek banks still face higher economic risks than most banking sectors globally, while the country’s economic prospects remain highly uncertain, S&P notes in its latest report on local lenders... than last year since the government is broadly complying with the third bailout programme
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Demand for hospitals' reserves raises concerns about govt's liquidity position
Economybillion euros, 1.34 billion lower than the target and almost equally split in the first three months.... Of these, more than half (5.28 billion) relate to the central government, 2.33 billion to local
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EU highlights Greek border concerns but Athens concerned about Aegean
PoliticsGreek Politicspublished in February. However, the warnings from Brussels carried less menace for Athens than in previous... more focussed on what is happening on its Aegean borders with Turkey rather than the consequences
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Gov't lowers tax-free threshold, prepares for third pillar of measures worth 1 pct of GDP
EconomyProgrammeat 9,545 euros for those with more than 3 children. It was lowered to 8,863 euros for taxpayers... than 3 children and a monthly salary of 600-650 euros will now pay an annual tax of 100-200 euros from
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Outline of fiscal mechanism for automatic cuts emerges after Eurogroup
EconomyProgrammeStatistical Authority (ELSTAT) each April. If the primary surplus is off track by more than 0.25... that have an impact of more than 0.5 percent of GDP. There is also a, vaguely defined at this moment
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