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Opinion polls suggest dispute with farmers has weakened ND's support
PoliticsGreek PoliticsMinister of State Akis Skertsos over his earlier statement that the government knew of the issues
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PM gives ESY clean bill of health, prompting opposition backlash
PoliticsGreek Politicsof total health spending, which is more than double the EU average of 14.3 percent. The gap... that hospitals and health centres nationwide have been renovated, that staff numbers are rising alongside
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Adult skills in Greece lacking, indicates OECD survey
Societyand problem solving is considerably smaller than the OECD average, an adult skills audit... are closer to the OECD average for that age group (4.4 and 4.8 percent, respectively) than 16-24 year... and their OECD peers is greater than that of older Greeks with the average in that age group. Around 4.6
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Our most popular stories in 2014
Agora, the government is estimated to have collected more than 2.5 billion euros from Greek taxpayers... a number of households are living in their shops. On home ownership, the study displayed that more than..., whilst the respective rate for inhabited houses larger than 100 sqm posted an annual drop of 3.6
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Newsletter 16 - 20/02/2015
euros at the end of January. In particular, 46.6 billion – or more than 60 percent of tax arrears... owe less than 5,000 euros, stand at just 3 percent (2.3 billion) of the outstanding amount of 76... debt related to 326,000 individuals and 75,000 corporates owing more than 5,000 each makes up 97
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Budget primary surplus outperforms in 2-month, tax revenues underperform in Feb
EconomyMacroeconomyexpenditure coming in 866 million lower than target coupled with gross revenue (revenues before tax... profits, which was 334 million higher than target. The more detailed revenue figures showed direct... million better than target. The latter mostly reflects higher than expected revenues from direct tax
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Budget primary surplus falls to 1.1 bln in Q1, slightly above target
EconomyMacroeconomy), which was 42.7 percent lower than the figure of 1.86 billion a year ago, the Finance Ministry (MoF... lower than the target and the Public Investment Budget (PIB) surplus was 149 million better than... of 1.12 billion in February as gross revenues slowed down by more than 1.1 billion month on month (MoM
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Newsletter 60 - 29/01/2016
compared to the fiscal target for a deficit of 0.25 percent. Although this is more of a preliminary than... to more than 1.1 billion euros in absolute terms, could provide a cushion in the upcoming... than the institutions had forecasted a few months ago. A similar estimate for overall stable GDP
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IMF examines how Greece accumulated large pile of unpaid taxes and contributions
EconomyProgramme. Specifically, tax debt represents more than 80 percent of total liabilities to the state. The stock reached... tax debtors owe less than 3,000 euros each, while their tax debt makes up just 2 percent of the total figure. In contrast, 1 percent of debtors owe more than 1 million euros each, accounting for 80
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The first cut is the deepest? Greek pension reforms in context
EconomyFeaturesof public protests against austerity. Often the public rhetoric obscures rather than conveys...’ pensions directly out of the budget rather than through a pension fund. State pensions amounted... more than twice the size of the entire public procurement bill. However successive governments have
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