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Newsletter 134
The government has acknowledged that the fiscal targets of the 2018 draft budget may be hampered by a tax-weary public. figure for 2018 has also been lowered from 52.94 to 52.49 billion euros... that it would wait until KAS's ruling has been published before it makes any decision. The consortium that has
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Athens rushing to reduce arrears and secure 800 mln in bailout funds
EconomyMacroeconomyof arrears has barely moved. In the case of tax refunds, the figure has actually increased from... to the private sector has jumped from 5.1 billion in June to 6.03 billion in August. In the draft budget..., which has accounted for a sizeable part of the ESM disbursements. A combined 4.3 billion euros has
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Economic sentiment at 98.3 pts in October, consumer confidence drops -0.3 pts
EconomyMacroeconomyrepresents a drop of 2.3 points in the overall index month-on-month. ESI has been improving since May..., ESI has improved by 3.2 points since January and 5.1 points since May. Consumer confidence declined... points in October. On a year-to-date basis, the index has gained 13.8 points, having recovered from
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Tsipras eyes review conclusion, insists SYRIZA patience will pay off
PoliticsGreek Politicssuggested that the opposition party has yet to realise that the government is well on the way to achieving... and that it will be distributed among low-income social groups, as the government has promised. Further details were not provided... during the meeting although this was later denied by ministry sources. Mouzalas has long been
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Greece and Albania hold private talks to tackle longstanding differences
PoliticsForeign Policyfor the delineation of the Exclusive Economic Zone; an issue which has been pending from 2009. Since January... of war that has existed between the two countries since the Second World War. Athens, meanwhile, does not recognise the issue of the Cham community, which Albania has been raising since the 1990s
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Greece bottom of the list on EU social justice index
SocietyGreece has come last out of 28 European Union (EU) countries surveyed for the annual Social Justice...) survey. The survey looks at opportunities in the EU across 38 economic and social criteria and has... of downward movement. Greece’s score has been slowly improving since 2014, but when compared
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Gennimata aims to secure centre-left leadership in run-off vote
PoliticsGreek Politicsparty’s leadership ballot in January 2016. The campaigning since last Sunday’s vote has been... notion that her political career has been driven by the fact that her late father was a PASOK... the party has helped her campaign with PASOK’s traditional, older supporters. It remains to be seen
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Broad support in Parliament for handouts amid mixed signals from polls
PoliticsGreek Politics. Conservative leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis has argued that any excess surplus should be used to reduce taxes, particularly the ENFIA property levy, which he has promised to reduce by 30 percent in his... move indicated in the University of Macedonia poll has not translated into a dip in SYRIZA’s rating
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Slight uptick for economic sentiment and consumer confidence in November
EconomyMacroeconomy) figures revealed on Monday. Between December last year and this November, the ESI print has... at 92.9. Since then sentiment has improved by 5.5 points. Consumer confidence also improved by 0.2...-to-date basis, confidence has improved by 10.6 points, having recovered from declines in January through
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SYRIZA in tight spot over strikes but poll deficit still closing
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe opposition parties, unions and activists. The coalition has come under attack for agreeing to change the law... that the quorum needed for these organisations to launch protest action has to be at least half... in Athens on Tuesday, this has also created some concern within SYRIZA. Only a few months ago
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