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  1. Primary cash surplus widens to 2.85 bln in Q1

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    Greece’s central government primary cash balance improved to 2.85 billion euros in the first quarter (Q1) of 2016 from 1.19 billion last year, Bank of Greece (BoG) figures showed on Wednesday. In March, the primary cash surplus widened by 11.1 percent to 763 million from 687 million

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  2. Neither necessary, nor good

    Agora

    with the Independent Greeks (ANEL), a party that has espoused populist, nationalist, racist and conspiracy-theorist... pliable. However, being in government with ANEL is not the straightforward, guilt-free politics that Tsipras imagines. In political terms, he is dining with the devil. His first alliance with ANEL

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  3. Newsletter 149 -2/02/2018

    Newsletters

    also put the coalition on tenterhooks. SYRIZA’s partner, Independent Greeks (ANEL), is backing... about a possible rift in the coalition after chairing a meeting of the Independent Greeks (ANEL...-ANEL partnership falling apart at this stage. The pull of the completion of the third programme

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  4. Tsipras and Kammenos try to fend off rumours of deepening rift
    Photo by Panayotis Tzamaros/Fosphotos

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    between SYRIZA and Independent Greeks (ANEL) over the last few weeks. This has been triggered... speculation about whether the SYRIZA-ANEL partnership has run its course, given that Kammenos said his... and ANEL have also taken different positions following the furore caused by Ivan Savidis’s foray onto

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  5. Kammenos walks out on coalition, triggers confidence vote that will affect timing of elections
    Photo by Panayotis Tzamaros/Fosphotos

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    The leader of junior coalition partner Independent Greeks (ANEL), Panos Kammenos, announced... and wants all ANEL’s ministers to do the same. As a consequence, Tsipras said that he would call... three of the seven members of ANEL’s parliamentary group are certain to vote against the government

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  6. Clearer picture ahead of confidence vote but Tsipras not secure yet

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    Elena Kountoura, an MP with departing coalition partner Independent Greeks (ANEL). Kountoura’s announcement led to ANEL leader and departed defence minister Panos Kammenos ousting her from his party. He took the same action with another ANEL lawmaker, Deputy Agricultural Development Minister Vassilis

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  7. Tsipras seen clinching 151 votes as doubts surface about name deal
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    Kammenos and his Independent Greeks (ANEL) party from the coalition means that barring any last-minute... on Monday, three ANEL MPs (Elena Kountoura, Vassilis Kokkalis and Thanassis Papachristopoulos) had... of confidence. Kostas Zouraris of ANEL is also expected to support the government. Given that Deputy

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  8. Income inequality in Greece has grown during crisis, OECD report shows
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    Society

    hold. Reflecting this fall income and the lack of a social net, the crisis period also saw a marked... and Iceland, where average annual losses exceeded 3.5 percent. The income fall at the bottom

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  9. Total health spending down to 8.65 pct of GDP as public healthcare sees big drop

    Society

    for health expenditure (-37.75 percent) was significantly higher than the fall in private funding... to 2013, an overall fall of 25.7 percent. From 2010 to 2011, the decrease was almost 25 percent while from 2012 to 2013 it was -7.3 percent. Residential or long-term care facilities also saw their funding

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  10. Newsletter 78 - 17/06/2016

    Newsletters

    . However, this represents a 1.7 percentage point fall on last year’s figure, reflecting an increase... to emotion carry immense power. As we saw last year in Greece, with the overwhelming win... plunge on foreign exchange markets. “Even if sterling were to fall a few percentage points, so

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