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Newsletter 428 - 21/06/2024
: Development, Migration, Interior, Labour and Agricultural Development. The new head of the Development Ministry is Takis Theodorikakos, who has previously served as Interior Minister. Kostas Tsiaras... is being moved from the Interior Ministry to the Labour Ministry, where she is replacing one of the few
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The case for a general government balance sheet
Agorathe assets, liabilities, and net worth of the general government in percent of GDP. We can make the following remarks: Net worth is negative in Greece and the Euro Area; a private entity (company or household) could not survive for long with these numbers. Net worth for Greece at -120 percent
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New Year reshuffle brings more MPs into cabinet, keeps key ministers in post
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe deputy agriculture minister. Interior Minister Takis Thedorikakos has also been left out of the new... Petsas has been appointed Alternate Interior Minister, to be replaced by Christos Tarantilis... to the right” and “a party-political balancing act”. The elevation to the Interior Ministry of Makis Voridis
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University bill threatens PASOK consensus as probes launched into alleged infractions by politicians
PoliticsGreek Politicsinvestigation in the Interior Ministry, which is the suspected source of the data leak, while on Tuesday.... The Interior Ministry has denied that it provides voters’ contact information, while the chief...’s EP elections, but also because the suspicions of a data leak emerged within days of the Interior
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Reflections on Greece's balance of payments
Agorafor net exports (X-M>0). How does such a development emerge in reality? Well, either production (Q... with the rest of the world is the “net international investment position” or NII. It is not easy... of continuous external deficits, Greece doubled its net liabilities, in percent of GDP, to the rest
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Current account deficit widens to 404 mln in March
EconomyMacroeconomythat this improvement is largely due to a lower net oil import bill, reflecting the decrease in oil prices. Net payments for ship purchases also fell. However, excluding the impact from oil and ships.... The contraction in the services surplus by 22.1 percent is mainly attributed to lower net receipts from
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July credit contraction at 1.5 pct, slowest since Aug 2011
EconomyMacroeconomyand was the last sub-2 percent reading. After a short-lived net addition of 430 million euros in June, lending flow turned negative in July with net deductions at 607.4 million, which is the second highest reading so far this year. July flow stems from household and corporate lending net deductions of 382
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Approach to protests, policing poses a new quandary for government
PoliticsGreek Politicsportfolio from the Interior Ministry to the Justice Ministry amid concerns that Panousis and Interior Minister Nikos Voutsis did not see eye to eye. It was notable that Justice Minister Nikos
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Will Tsipras move to centre stage to secure deal with lenders?
PoliticsGreek Politicswithin the government, even leading to thoughts of removing Panousis’s portfolio from the Interior.... Interior Minister Nikos Voutsis and Alternate Minister for European Affairs Nikos Hountis
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Launch of new movement highlights fragmentation of Greek centre-left
PoliticsGreek PoliticsFormer Interior Minister Yiannis Ragoussis is set to launch a new centre-left movement on Wednesday, highlighting the fragmentation in this part of the Greek political spectrum. With PASOK... to liberalise the taxi sector while he was interior, and then transport, minister between 2009 and 2011. He
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