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Child poverty rate in Greece triples in a decade, OECD study finds
Society, which tracks child poverty in developed countries, has shown that Greece was among the countries where child poverty has increased sharply in recent years. Overall, the study found that on average..., the anchored poverty rate since 2008 has grown threefold. This was driven by sharp declines
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Poll numbers encouraging for Mitsotakis and Kasselakis on road to EP vote
PoliticsGreek Politics. Support for ND stood at 31.4, which is the highest it has been for the last five months, as measured... given that it has entered its second term, with a difficult first year, and has suffered wear and tear... to the voting intentions measured, New Democracy is seen gaining 30 pct, while SYRIZA is on 15.5 pct
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Greece's labour market is austerity's biggest casualty
AgoraGreece has the potential to attain by 2020 a GDP in the region of 330 billion euros and a place... time as the 20th economy in the G20 experiences a depression similar to the one Greece has gone... – the last available quarterly data from ELSTAT – the Greek economy has lost 738,000 jobs, a 16.5
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Is the Greek coalition about to cry over fresh milk?
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe government’s already strained cohesion. One coalition MP after another has been saying since last week... urban markets.” The government has not given precise details about what it has agreed with the troika...-day and 11-day categories. This has not been well received by a number of New Democracy and PASOK MPs
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European Commission sees some progress in Greece's market reforms
EconomyProgrammeCommission (EC) has outlined that reforms of the public administration, the judicial system and those... development. According to the report, certain indicators are showing that business regulation has been... percent. According to the report, liberalisation has been uneven across professions and further progress
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What does a bailout exit with a precautionary credit line mean for Greece?
EconomyProgrammefuture problems with access to market financing. It has an initial duration of one year... assistance if the precautionary programme were to be activated. The FFA has to be signed along.... It has the flexibility to request the draw-down of funds or a primary market intervention at any time
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Greece: How events could unfold over the next few weeks
PoliticsGreek Politicsin this process. The strong element of opportunism that drives the nationalist party means it has... another 3 billion euros taken out in March. It is estimated that the bank jog has continued at a slower... MPs it has at the moment but being able to continue governing with a comfortable majority
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Creditors devise proposal in Berlin, Tsipras prepares ground in Athens
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreece will adopt, the Fund also has a particular interest in the issues of debt sustainability... concessions the Greek side has won and how much it has had to give in on key issues such as pension and labour reform. The process of preparing the party for some kind of compromise has already begun
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Warning signs for coalition after majority trimmed in multi-bill vote
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe other two lawmakers choose the same route (Nikolopoulos has shown no such intention, while.... This means that the government has 153 out of 300 MPs in Parliament and an even more fragile... to ensure there will be no more defections from SYRIZA, which means that he has to fulfil a role
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SYRIZA not entirely behind plans for changes to constitution, electoral system
PoliticsGreek Politicsand the impact of the measures it adopted. However, not everyone within SYRIZA has been convinced... is enough. The largest faction within the leftist party, the 53, has just issued a statement calling on the government to move forward with the “major structural reforms that the Left has always supported
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