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  1. Budget balance up to May well above target as VAT brings in 650 mln more than planned

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    of 103 million euros, from a 1.88 billion euros surplus in May 2025. The overall balance is better than

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  2. Labour market reforms did exactly what they were supposed to
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    Agora

    labour costs since euro adoption had increased by 35 percent, compared to less than 20 percent in the euro area. Greece’s minimum wage was higher than countries that would be considered peers, 50 percent above Portugal’s and 17 percent higher than the minimum wage in Spain. By 2009, total exports were

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  3. Bound to lose
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    Agora

    emotions being cut short. Hopefully, any probe will take less than the five interminable years needed... assigns excessive importance to the symptoms, rather than causes, of Greece’s economic, political... such a landmark occasion by speaking more as a party leader, rather than a prime minister. His words

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  4. Newsletter 342 - 17/06/2022

    Newsletters

    be in a strong position to get the 37-38 pct that will probably be needed in the second election, held... Greece, Mitsotakis said that his government will soon put forward legislation to allow nursery... interview with ERT this week, Mitsotakis also dismissed the notion put forward by PASOK-KINAL leader

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  5. Newsletter 95 - 11/11/2016

    Newsletters

    of 0.3 percent for 2016 and a strong rebound of 2.7 and 3.1 percent in the following two years. For 2017... and that there is strong pressure on Fragkiadakis, and possibly Thomopoulos, to resign. The Greek banks’ Eurosystem.... It is true that Trump, like the Leave campaign in the UK, received strong support from high income

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  6. PM prepares for low key policy speech as poll suggests support for govt still high

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    since the summer break has indicated that support is still strong for his New Democracy party. Ahead... sources say that Mitsotakis’s speech will be shorter than is usually the case for Greek PM’s at TIF... of concern among Greeks about the situation in the Aegean, but also indicated that there is strong

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  7. Newsletter 414 - 01/03/2024

    Newsletters

    the question of whether Kasselakis can continue as leader seems to have been put to bed for the time being...' families in the days leading up to the anniversary of the crash put pressure on the government... to significant reductions in more than 1,500 product codes. One of the initiatives relates to baby formula

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  8. Tsipras calls snap elections after heavy defeat that puts ND on course for clear majority
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    the European Parliament vote by around 9 percentage points, which was a much wider margin than SYRIZA...). This gap of more than 9 points was at the outer edge of what opinion polls had indicated over the last... missed three key targets in these elections, which were to get more than 25 percent of the vote

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  9. Newsletter 422 - 26/04/2024

    Newsletters

    of the vote could dip close to or even below 30 pct, which would be substantially lower than the almost 41 pct... the difference between a result that ND could argue is respectable and one that would put it on the back foot... of right-wing voters, who seem to have strong objections to the legislation. Last week, a survey carried

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  10. Is Greece facing a new migration crisis?

    Society

    back to the top of the political agenda and has put the spotlight on the New Democracy government... by the failure to put in place suitable long-term accommodation solutions. The authors predicted that because... defining it as a public order issue, rather than a citizenship or humanitarian issue. Prior

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