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Newsletter 279 -13/11/2020
sight savings, aggregate triples YoY Total deposits, which also include the general government (gg.... Interior Minister Takis Thedorikakos was also left out of the new line-up to be replaced by Agriculture... Interior Minister, to be replaced by Christos Tarantilis. Altogether, 17 changes were made, including
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Athens buoyed by EU, US support over maritime spat with Turkey
PoliticsForeign Policyon the Turkey–Libya maritime border deal. A common statement adopted by the EU leaders during... on Thursday decided to appoint a special envoy to Libya. This will be Ambassador Christodoulos Lazaris. His mission will be to maintain contact with all sides in Libya in order to closely monitor developments
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A busy year of diplomacy for Athens, but Greek-Turkish ties stagnate
PoliticsForeign Policycountries. But it also accomplished a rapprochement with Libya. Greece’s decision to extend its... was its rapprochement with Libya. That was accomplished with numerous visits by Greek officials, including... for the first time a high-level meeting on Libya on November 12, in Paris. Greece had been excluded twice from
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Greece’s downstream oil industry adapts to shifting demands
EconomyFeaturesfor refined petroleum exports with a total of USD 8 billion or 1.3 percent of the global total and 29.9..., followed by Iran (until sanctions in 2012), Libya, Saudi Arabia and Kazakhstan. As of January this year... with the total including indirect employment coming to over 20,000 people. According to the report
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Labour market reforms did exactly what they were supposed to
Agoraabove Portugal’s and 17 percent higher than the minimum wage in Spain. By 2009, total exports were... in the private sector would need to be significantly reformed, pay rates for overtime work would... allow local pay agreements to set wage growth below sectoral agreements and introduce variable pay
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PM lines up talks with farmers, faces questions over housing crisis
PoliticsGreek Politicsof not maximising the use of RRF funds to renovate properties and make them available to the market
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With troika OK pending, 2014 budget sees primary surplus at 1.6 pct of GDP
EconomyMacroeconomyprimary surplus for both years was reaffirmed, at 812 million in 2013 and at 2.95 billion in 2014.... Excluding the aforementioned items under EAP rules, gg primary surplus is seen at 812 million (0.4
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Creditors devise proposal in Berlin, Tsipras prepares ground in Athens
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the funds needed to pay 1.6 billion euros to the International Monetary Fund this month. While talks... on to their seats if they quit their parties. On Saturday, Interior Minister Nikos Voutsis admitted
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Bailout talks, SYRIZA bickering continue - no definite end date for either
PoliticsGreek Politicsbridge loan following July's 7.2-billion-euro package to pay the ECB-held bond, pending an agreement... meant that ex-Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis had committed treason. Panousis's superior, Interior
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Tsipras and SYRIZA: More old than new
Agora, Tsipras’s path seems to have been set: after talking a good game to get elected, he will pay only lip... as alternate interior minister and later as labour minister, from where he could draft legislation
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