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Piraeus books losses of 3 bln as NPEs drop by nearly 17 bln
EconomyBankingand the NPE clean-up in the form of loan securitisations and sales. Excluding one-off items, the pre...) in 2021 was 1.59 billion euros, nearly doubling from the 809 million euros of 2020. Excluding one-off.... Impairment charges came to 4.3 billion euros, compared with 1.32 billion euros in 2020. One-off items
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Where is Odysseus? Part 1 - Demographics
Agora. It is worth asking what happened to Odysseus and his people who set off on their journey in relatively... demographic projections, the Greek population is now expected to be slightly larger, and level off... data are interesting. In the 2011 vintage, the population did not start to ease off until the 2020s
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Speculation about snap polls after summer revived by PM's US trip
PoliticsGreek Politicsan argument that Mitsotakis is better off holding elections before the 2023 budget has to be tabled... significantly improved his ratings and shown that his government’s foreign policy is paying off. Although his... would be better off waiting until next year, when Greece is expected to regain the investment grade
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Newsletter 343 - 24/06/2022
waits until the end of his four-year term to hold elections, he will not be able to hold off the wear... expectations, and not fully signing off the latest round of debt relief measures adopted... to kick off from next year onwards. The IMF also welcomes improvements that took place during
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Government attempts to offer reassurance against winter energy shortages
PoliticsGreek Politicsthemselves on heightened alert for the prospect of Russia completely shutting off gas supplies. Skrekas... regulator RAE outlines the contingencies in a scenario where supplies of Russian gas are cut off entirely... of heating and cooling within a regulated temperature range, turning off heating and cooling outside office
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Opposition parties step up pressure after back-and-forth over election date
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis may have taken the possibility of snap elections off the table... scepticism was misguided and that even SYRIZA’s own secret polling was substantially off the mark... compared to 2019, this will indicate that the Greek electorate has gone off Mitsotakis
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Relief measures being lined up, but PM's eye also on reforms rollout
PoliticsGreek Politicsand 300 million euros will probably be needed to cover the cost of the one-off payment aimed at helping those worse off with the burden of rising prices. If this initiative goes ahead, it is widely expected... or for their one-off pension bonus to rise on retirement. Combined with the scrapping of the solidarity levy
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PM announces more voter-friendly measures ahead of polls
PoliticsGreek Politics, northern Greece, on Tuesday, Mitsotakis confirmed that there will be a one-off handout... with the 72- and 120-instalment schemes to pay off their dues to the state will be allowed to rejoin the programme. Mitsotakis said that this would apply to debtors who were pushed off track
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Does the EU Commission suffer from optimism bias? (Part 2)
Agora. Their academic papers on this topic have created a theory of where we often go off the rails in our.... Nearly always, this results in problems of programs going “off track.” The institutional vaccine... years in the early 2000s, coming off the dot-com collapse. Then, the 2009 baseline was lifted up
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On monetary policy and inflation targeting
Agorain Country A has foreshadowed additional interest rate increases aiming to pinch off a bigger upside... targets the price level, so it is expecting that monetary policy will continue to tighten to ease off... volatility and almost deflation, before the recent big bounce in inflation taking off
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