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  1. VAT and underspend drive budget outperformance in first six months

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    The budget primary balance was confirmed at a surplus of 4.49 billion euros for June, compared to a surplus of 4.52 billion euros a year earlier, according to the final Finance Ministry (MoF) budget... the target. Expenditure, excluding interest payments and the public investment budget, came to 28.22

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  2. Budget continues to perform strongly in July as VAT beats target by over 1 bln

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    The budget primary balance was confirmed at a surplus of 5.77 billion euros for July, compared to a surplus of 7.94 billion euros a year earlier, according to the final Finance Ministry (MoF) budget... the target. Expenditure, excluding interest payments and the public investment budget, came to 35.44

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  3. VAT continues to drive budget performance in Aug, at 1.21 bln above target

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    The budget primary balance was confirmed at a surplus of 6.53 billion euros for August, compared to a surplus of 8.5 billion euros a year earlier, according to the final Finance Ministry (MoF) budget... the target. Expenditure, excluding interest payments and the public investment budget, came to 40.33

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  4. Government tries to contain fallout from breach of voters' data

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    given the ongoing investigation into a potential data breach at the Interior Ministry. The MEP... Data Protection Authority, the Interior Ministry and a public prosecutor. It was also announced on Friday that Interior Ministry general secretary Michalis Stavrianoudakis and New Democracy’s secretary

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  5. Investigations into voter email leak continue despite denials from government

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    of separate investigations by the Interior Ministry, a Greek prosecutor and the country’s Data...-Michelle Asimakopoulou from the upcoming EP elections and the resignation of a senior Interior... that the email list was leaked from the Interior Ministry during the tenure of the caretaker

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  6. After talks at UN, Tsipras returns to grind of parliamentary politics
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    national budget. It is worth remembering that before the elections the faction of the “53” advocated... by the election of a new parliamentary speaker on Sunday. SYRIZA is expected to propose former Interior

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  7. Newsletter 60 - 29/01/2016

    Newsletters

    to the assumption for a recession of 0.7 percent incorporated in the 2016 budget and a much sharper GDP contraction... islands to prevent them simply moving on en masse to other parts of Europe. On this subject, a lot... that one of the ideas mentioned during an EU interior ministers’ meeting this week was for a large refugee

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  8. Greek relief at EU-Turkey refugee deal but heavy lifting lies ahead
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    of the chapters over which Nicoisia had expressed concern, but only Chapter 33 on budget policy. This left..., which is currently under the auspices of the Interior Ministry, and putting him under someone else’s

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  9. Athens and lenders stay mum on agreement, domestic reaction awaited
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    at an event organised by Parliament’s Budget Office on Tuesday, Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos.... Skourletis Interior Minister Panos Skourletis toned down on Wednesday his reaction to the potential sale

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  10. With eye on elections, Tsipras talks up public sector hirings
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    and the Help at Home scheme. He said these hirings would not burden the budget as funding... with 4,500 next year. Meanwhile, the Interior Ministry estimates that there are roughly 35,000

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