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Snap elections in Greece: The scenarios ahead
PoliticsGreek Politicslikely than the latter and so far only one polling company (Public Issue) has published projected... from PASOK rather than the whole party. Also, the possibility that ex-Prime Minister George Papandreou... in office for anything more than the short-term. No clear winner, back to square one There is strong
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How SYRIZA says it will fund its economic policies
Economycapital for anything other than bank recapitalisation requires approval by the Eurogroup as well as from... to be further recapitalized (to cover capital losses due to bad loan write-offs) using HFSF funds rather than... target. 3) Settlement of unpaid taxes. SYRIZA expects more than 20 billion euros of the outstanding
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Bookies see comfortable win for SYRIZA, close contest for third place
PoliticsGreek Politicsaspect of the election race and appears to concern two rather than three or four political parties... scenario is SYRIZA gaining more than 33.75 percent of votes (odds at 1.75) with New Democracy winning less than 28.5 percent of votes (odds at 1.75). This suggests a margin in excess of 5 percentage
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Eurosystem funding for Greek banks shoots up by 11.2 bln in December
EconomyMacroeconomyrecorded in February 2012. Following a sharp drop by more than 30 billion euros in the 9-month period... banking sources, local media indicate that the significant increase of more than 11 billion euros... are continuing in January mainly due to money withdrawals from retail accounts rather than money
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Bookies' odds against SYRIZA emerging with majority from Sunday's elections
PoliticsGreek Politicsmajority. They also anticipate a close contest for the third place and believe it is more likely than... -1.40 for no outright majority compared to 2.75 – 3.30 for the winning party gaining more than 150... right power lower than it should be. Betting odds for GD and To Potami provided by Sportingbet stand
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First rise since 2009 for Greek household disposable income in Q3 2014
EconomyMacroeconomytaxation. Since 2009, compensation of employees was reduced by almost 31 percent (more than 6.5 billion..., which corresponds to more than 3.2 billion that are no more available for Greek households... impact of more than 800 million on households’ income. Household final consumption rose by 2.3 percent
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Structural problems and dramatic drop in funding harm mental health care in Greece
Society. Above Bulgaria and Romania in the overall ranking, Greece failed to place higher than 24th... rather than by domestic demand,” it added. There have been pockets of progress, however. Most... than insufficient, understaffed hospital wards is the poor state of community-based facilities
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Greek primary budget surplus halved in Jan as revenues miss target
Economyexpenditure was almost 100 million better than target. A similar pattern was also evident in the budget... billion short of target. Primary expenditure rose 4.9 percent to 3.1 billion, 53 million better than.... As a result, expenditure dropped 9.9 percent to 3.17 billion, almost 100 million lower than target
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Capital controls in Greece? A response to Professor Sinn
Agoraa capital controls regime for Greece, since the cost of a funded capital controls regime is lower than... of Grexit, while they would also be less costly for Greece than Grexit. The EZ has an incentive... writes, the Cyprus bailout cost is not 10 billion but less than 9, as one billion set aside
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Tsipras faces dissent from SYRIZA MPs but serious rift unlikely at this stage
PoliticsGreek Politicsproperly. It is more likely that Tsipras will run the risk of dissent in his party rather than be seen... with a worse deal than the previous coalition. SYRIZA officials have a little time to work on the dissenters within the party, perhaps ensuring that they abstain from the vote on the extension rather than
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