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PM defends scepticism about name deal as he waits for official position from Skopje
PoliticsForeign Policyelections in the neighbouring country. Nationalist VMRO DPMNE was caught by surprise by the strong... for the Prespes agreement because we had expressed very strong reservations about the fact... the strong reactions expressed at an international level, which have been coordinated with Athens
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Mitsotakis dangles promise of further tax relief but opposition questions VAT revenue bonanza
PoliticsGreek Politicsof Nikos Androulakis, and 78 pct of whom said they believed PASOK could fulfil the role of a strong... party, with just 44 pct saying they believed PASOK could be a strong opposition, and 46 pct declaring... leadership elections, the recently ousted leader Stefanos Kasselakis remains a strong favourite among
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Greece gets close-up view of rapidly changing US foreign policy position
PoliticsForeign PolicyGreece’s strong commitment to meeting NATO defense spending obligations while welcoming Greece’s..., the military cooperation also remains strong with nearly 16.5 billion dollars in active foreign military... UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters. On Friday, Rubio applauded Greece’s strong commitment to meeting NATO
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Faltering relationship with farmers a sign of wider concerns for government
PoliticsGreek Politicswithin a constituency that – according to exit polls – provided strong support for New Democracy... deep public disquiet over the judiciary and strong criticism of the government’s handling... to realignment if new parties enter the field. The strong negative evaluations of the government’s
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IMF examines how Greece accumulated large pile of unpaid taxes and contributions
EconomyProgramme. Specifically, tax debt represents more than 80 percent of total liabilities to the state. The stock reached... tax debtors owe less than 3,000 euros each, while their tax debt makes up just 2 percent of the total figure. In contrast, 1 percent of debtors owe more than 1 million euros each, accounting for 80
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Severe underspend covers lower revenues for end-May primary surplus
EconomyGreece’s budget execution showed that the 5-month primary surplus more than doubled to 1.51 billion... higher than expected Public Investment Budget (PIB) balance (by 1.11 billion) more than offsetting..., the underlying revenue performance in May shows a revenue shortfall of more than 300 million euros. Τax
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Newsletter 47 - 16/10/2015
Panos Kammenos failing to include him in the cabinet rather than any particular ideological or political..., distancing themselves from any measures other than structural reforms, such as steps aimed at tackling tax... contraction than lenders The Greek government as well as local banks and economic think-tanks
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Special ELSTAT report reveals dramatic changes in labour market since 1980s
EconomyMacroeconomy. During the current crisis, the jobless rate more than tripled. It peaked at 27.5 percent in 2013 but has decreased by more than 2.5 percentage points (pp) since then, falling to 24.9 percent in 2015... (less than 5 months) exceeded the long-term figure. Long-term to total unemployment started rising
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Newsletter 38 - 07/08/2015
change in the way individuals manage their cash. For more than three weeks, they could withdraw only... cards, Eurobank 170,000 and National Bank more than 400,000, while Piraeus officially announced... and handled an average of more than 100,000 online transactions per day, implying a substantial Banks
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Greece lags in basic skills for youth but improves in educational attainment
Societyearly than for native-born pupils (24.1 percent against 6.8 percent in 2015), the situation remains... of education, the survey also found, with a great proportion of third-level graduates in jobs than those... in Greece for the medium and higher educated than in the EU on average. While the employment rate
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