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  1. New overdue taxes jump by 1.3 bln in Dec, total stock climbs to 54 pct of GDP
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    a rise of more than 7,500 in the previous month. The aggregate figure for the whole year showed... had contracted by 639 million. The breakdown of the legacy tax debt showed more than three quarters

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  2. Number of new companies registering in 2016 half of those in 2008
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    Economy

    , retail trade, accounting and consulting). Although this figure is lower than the 88 percent recorded...). Overall, excluding tourism, the vast majority of sectors posted an average decrease of more than 30

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  3. Car sales soar 22.8 pct in first month of 2017

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    . Passenger cars make up more than 81 percent of car sales, while around 41 percent are registered... than the 13.5 percent growth rate recorded in 2015. Despite double-digit growth in each of the last

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  4. Waste management remains Greece's biggest environmental challenge, says EU
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    Society

    Along with Cyprus, Greece recycled just short than a fifth of municipal rate in 2014, jointly the third lowest rate in the EU and less than half the EU average, a new environmental implementation review from the European Commission has found. “Greece faces significant difficulties in implementing

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  5. Greek banks stepped up write-offs in 2016, provisions increased at slowest pace since 2008
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    EconomyBanking

    billion euros in 2016, up by more than 1 billion from the 2015 figure of 1.46 billion. The previous.... They have increased by more than seven times since then in the wake of PSI losses and sharp

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  6. Lenders' proposal not yet enough to convince Athens, banish snap poll option
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    European director, Poul Thomsen, that Greek pensioners are better off than their German counterparts... of principle, rather than his previous insistence that it would not accept “a single euro” in new

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  7. Athens waits for Moscovici visit, eyes debt relief and lower volume of measures
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    than 7,000 euros from its current level of just above 8,600) and possibly avoid the upfront.... It is hoping that the 3.5 percent primary surplus will not have to be maintained for more than three years

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  8. Tsipras's choices are becoming clearer but not any easier

    Agora

    to maintain a 3.5 percent of GDP primary surplus for more than three years, which is substantially less than the 10 years Berlin had proposed recently. Should the institutions show flexibility on this issue

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  9. Greece near bottom of OECD rankings for spending on R&D
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    Society

    than any other country on R&D (4.3 percent) followed by Korea (4.2 percent), Japan (3.5 percent... (1.7 percent) all spent greater proportions of their GDP on R&D than Greece. There was a general

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  10. Current account deficit widens to 933 mln in December, 2016 balance turns to deficit of 1.1 bln
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    with a slightly higher goods’ deficit by 35 million that more than offset an improvement... bonds and T-Bills, which more than offset a drop in their foreign equity holdings

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