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Economic sentiment at 102.5 in June as improvement in subindexes slows
EconomyMacroeconomyabove the 100-point mark. Greece’s economic sentiment reading has remained above 100 for all months... in all underlying indicators. In industry confidence dipped by 0.1 points month-on-month to -1.6, staying
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Higher education in Greece needs radical overhaul to create labour-relevant workforce, study says
Societyfor higher education, the crisis brought a rise in unemployment for all levels of education... building autonomous education institutions with flexible and efficient administration at all levels
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Travel balance records 127 mln surplus in Q1, much improved on last year
EconomyMacroeconomyfor 25.3 percent of all travel receipts and generated just under 140 million euros in revenue, up by 3.2... a sharper drop of 36.6 percent to 15,700. Cruises Cruise-based travel to Greece showed declines in all
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Coalition's attempt to defend handling of fatal blaze fails to stem criticism
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe area extremely difficult. All four officials insisted that the emergency services and everyone... by the Mati fire. The fact that all four officials involved argued that while some mistakes may have
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Last bailout tranche just days away as pension discussion looms
EconomyProgrammeAll the hurdles have been cleared for Greece to receive the last tranche of the third and final bailout as focus shifts to the discussions that Athens is due to have with the institutions... during the first two reviews because of the difficulty in getting all sides to agree. This led
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Athens taking more time to consider 2019 measures ahead of budget talks
EconomyProgrammeto boost spending following the Mati disaster. All of this is subject to the discussions that Greece... of the year, total arrears have fallen by 596 million euros. The original target of settling all
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Agorabillion euros, losing a quarter of private spending in just half a decade. All types of investments... reached an all-time peak of close to 122,000. Property prices Greeks did not lose just income
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Crisis-era productivity in Greece lowest among OECD countries
EconomyFeatures(2010-2016). All other countries displayed varying levels of growth, with Ireland performing best. The report noted that productivity growth fell markedly during the crisis in all countries
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SYRIZA and ND go head-to-head over promises to lighten tax burden
PoliticsGreek Politicswill reach 3.5 billion euros in volume. It was reported that Tsipras might try to legislate all..., is an “insult” to all Greeks, not just those from the Greek region of Macedonia. He again argued
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VAT revenues up in 2016 but rate hikes fail to close gap of 29 pct
EconomyFeaturesof that year and removed the VAT discount enjoyed by most islands. The report noted that in all other EU... a uniform VAT rate on all goods and services. This policy gap ratio is split into the ‘rate gap
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