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Don't celebrate a French reconnection for EU just yet
Agorathe latter have a corrosive effect on the European project. Voter pool More than 7.5 million French... packaging. It has many guises and can be much more insidious than we care to admit. If mainstream... or Beppe Grillo than to admit that something might be wrong. It is true that the EU has taken
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Significant drop in number of Greek citizenships granted
SocietyThe number of Greek citizenships granted to non-Greeks more than halved in the two years from 2013 to 2015, EU data has shown. Eurostat figures show that there were 7,000 fewer new Greeks in 2015 than in the previous year and 15,500 fewer than in 2013, when the number of new citizenship approvals
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Rise in new overdue taxes slows to 658 mln in March, stock edges up to 94.3 bln
EconomyMacroeconomyof tax debtors dropped for the second successive month by more than 77,900 and landed below the 4-million... at the end of March, of which more than three quarters stemmed from companies (39.1 billion... to an average figure of 293 million per month, which is higher than the monthly average of 206 million
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Tsipras clears hurdle but isn't over finishing line
AgoraMinister Euclid Tsakalotos had once said he would resign rather than reduce the tax-free threshold... of the deal more than he should, especially given the ongoing tug-of-war between the International... a much more attractive legacy than the one he currently has, even if it is unlikely to be enough to get
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Net job hirings hit high of 92,132 in April, driving 4-month figure to new record
EconomyMacroeconomyby a wide margin a total of 132,049 departures, of which less than half (48 percent) related to lay... hirings declined to 54.7 percent from less than 58 percent in March, while that for departures also... of 593,052 compared to a total of 486,587 departures. Slightly more than half of the hirings in the first
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Church, democracy and the evil eye: survey reveals Greeks' beliefs
Societymore likely to support democracy than any of the other countries surveyed. Greeks also appear...). Roughly half of respondents said that religion was very important to them, with more women than men... of those over 35, a difference of 26 percent. Greeks aged over 35 were more likely to agree than
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Survey shows 42 pct of Greek expats unlikely to return
Societyor work in tourism businesses. More than half of those surveyed (53 percent) are employees, 17... enough in engaging its highly talented diaspora, rather than considering a lost generation. It cited... rather than losing them to the overseas market.
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Credit contraction decelerates to 0.9 pct in April, net additions climb to 659 mln
EconomyMacroeconomyfor the second straight month, more than doubling to 659 million in April from 307 million in March... has prevailed in the Greek banking market. The loan balance has dropped by more than 25 percent amid... in NPEs, which as seen decreasing by more than 40 billion by the end of 2019. The bulk of the pledged
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Athens eyes deal on bailout tranche within June, hopes for QE breakthrough
PoliticsGreek Politicson Monday that he expects an agreement within June, rather than at the Eurogroup on June 15 specifically... that the government knows it will have to back down eventually if nothing better than the May 22... for QE but also underlined that the deal will have to be more extensive than the proposal tabled
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Greeks express most negative sentiments about economy in global poll
Societythan it was in 2007, immediately before the beginning of the global financial crisis. Greeks, however... financially than their parents. The most pessimistic about prospects for the next generation... they will be better off financially than their parents,” 29 percent of Greeks aged 18-29 agreed, 23
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