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  1. Eurobank records strong profits of 691 mln in H1, net interest income jumps 12.2 pct
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    EconomyBanking

    Eurobank posted a net profit of 691 million euros in H1 2025, from 721 million euros a year earlier, down by 4.3 percent year-on-year (YoY). Core pre-provision income (PPI) rose by 6.6 percent year-on-year (YoY) in H1 to 1.02 billion euros, from 958 mil...

    7%

  2. Wages grew by 8.7 pct YoY in Q2 thanks to strong seasonal hires
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    Greece’s seasonally adjusted (SA) Wages Index grew by 8.7 percent year-on-year (YoY) in Q2, from 6.2 percent in the first quarter of 2025, Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) figures showed on Friday. The wages index captures employees’ gross earnin...

    7%

  3. Strong tax revenues, major underspend lead primary surplus 3.57 bln above target in Aug
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    The budget primary balance was confirmed at a surplus of 8.5 billion euros up to August, compared to a surplus of 7.57 billion euros in the same period a year earlier, according to the final Finance Ministry (MoF) budget execution data released on Thurs...

    7%

  4. Oct budget execution data affirms strong revenue performance

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    The budget primary balance was confirmed at a surplus of 10.25 billion euros up to October, compared to a surplus of 13.53 billion euros in the same period a year earlier, according to the final Finance Ministry (MoF) budget execution data released on T...

    7%

  5. Car sales record strong rise in Dec, grow by 5.9 pct YoY in 2025

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    Vehicles going into circulation for the first time jumped by 18.7 percent year-on-year (YoY) in December, after a drop of 1.6 percent in November, according to Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) data released on Friday. In December 2024, licences h...

    7%

  6. Strong primary surplus of over 8 bln at close of 2025 as spending is contained

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    The budget primary balance was confirmed at a surplus of 8.09 billion euros for 2025, compared to a surplus of 8.7 billion euros a year earlier, according to the final Finance Ministry (MoF) budget execution data released on Monday. Expenditure, excludi...

    7%

  7. Despite strong close in Dec, industrial turnover up by just 0.3 pct YoY in 2025
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    Greece’s industrial turnover recorded a significant rise of 5.6 percent year-on-year (YoY) in December, from unchanged in November, according to data released by the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) on Friday. The previous two months were revised...

    7%

  8. The quarterly national accounts from the income side
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    Agora

    , and the clientelist control over the government is too strong, to implement truly far-reaching structural reforms... exports? There is even a third way of slicing up the GDP pie. Who receives the income that is earned

    6%

  9. IMF insists fiscal targets unrealistic, cites historical evidence to support case
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    EconomyProgramme

    the high surplus period they had strong real GDP growth (2.7 percent) and high inflation (4 percent... to the Fund suggest that sustained periods of high primary surpluses require strong economic growth... primary surpluses that are achieved through strong fiscal adjustment are often reversed following

    5%

  10. Greece’s 14–29s: Ambitious, anxious and lacking trust
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    Society

    strong desires to emigrate; about 29.3% declare a “strong” or “very strong” desire to live abroad... and values. The youngest cohort (14–18) shows particularly strong nationalist tendencies, combining... towards parties and institutions paired with a strong desire to be heard. Trust in politicised

    5%