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Tsipras pushes for revision of constitution, hoping to score political points
PoliticsGreek Politicsand allowing voters, rather than MPs, to elect the Greek president. During his speech on Tuesday, Tsipras addressed both issues but adopted a less absolute position than his party has done in the past
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Human Rights Commissioner calls for improvements to battered healthcare system
Societythan half between 2009 to 2015. Treatment services, diagnostics, and disease prevention programmes... and by more than half in 2011-2012. Further measures led to the closure of specialised clinics
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Unemployment at 18.9 pct in August, unemployed remain under 1 mln
EconomyMacroeconomyshowed that there were 6,556 more hirings than departures. September’s balance returns the figure.... In the aggregate period, the employment balance showed 288,369 more hirings than departures. Ergani noted
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Coalition optimistic about pension cuts deal as it readies reduction to contributions
PoliticsGreek Politicseven more than the roughly 750 million euros of positive measures pledged by Tsipras. The newspaper suggests that the figure may even reach more than 1 billion euros, without giving further details
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Amid efforts to help banks reduce NPLs, portfolio sales dominate drive to meet 2018 targets
EconomyBankingreport, will be to reduce them by more than 40 billion euros. At the same time, there is an ongoing... that was used in Italy and envisages lifting more than 15 billion euros off banks' books . As the details
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Getting to the church on time
Agorause of property rather than from the beleaguered Greek taxpayer’s pockets. Even using the vacated... long-term plan about how to address deficiencies in the delivery of public services rather than
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Budget primary surplus at 6.46 bln in October on improved revenues and primary underspend
EconomyMacroeconomyby 0.2 percent to 38.70 billion, lower than the target by 618 million. PIB PIB revenues came to 114... a deficit of 406 million in the first ten months of the year, 574 million better than the target.
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What Greece imports and why
EconomyFeaturesthan any other category during the crisis years. Imports of machinery, meanwhile, have recovered... trade deficit is more likely going to involve ramping up exports rather than cutting back exports
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Tsipras talks up 'positive' measures but polls show little impact so far
PoliticsGreek Politicsgovernment has paid out more than 750,000 main, supplementary and lump-sum pensions since coming to power... clearly feels that he now has something tangible to show voters rather than the theoretical benefits
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Primary surplus confirmed at 6.44 bln in October on revised budget targets
EconomyMacroeconomyto 38.70 billion, lower than the target by 300 million. The MoF noted that the movement in expenditure... of 403 million in the first 10 months of the year, 1.32 billion better than the target
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