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Newsletter 297 - 21/05/2021
and developments on the EU’s “digital green certificate” mature. Meanwhile, SYRIZA has put forward its... priorities of green transition and digital transformation, as well as the pillars of social cohesion.... According to the data, on average, house prices increased by a revised 4.3 percent in 2020, compared
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From the National Energy and Climate Plan to COP26: What has Greek climate policy learned?
Society“Greece despite its small carbon footprint can make a significant contribution in the green... Kyriakos Mitsotakis, address to UN COP26 summit, Glasgow, 1 November 2021. A lot has happened... the next six years specifically earmarked for the “green transition”. On the policy front, however
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It's time to say farewell to TINA politics in Germany
Agorais best illustrated by Annalena Baerbock, the 40-year-old candidate of the Green Party running... since. Still, the Green Party is expected to play a key role in a three-party coalition configuration... approach vis-à-vis China has now run its course. If the Green Party will indeed lead the Foreign Office
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CPI rises by 1 pct in June, staying positive for third month
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose by 1 percent in June following an increase of 0.6 percent... July 2017 to June 2018 was 0.6 percent. Month-on-month, the CPI rose by 1 percent compared to May’s...) rose by 1 percent year-on-year in June. Month-on-month the HICP increased by 0.9 percent. The overall
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Where is Odysseus? Part 1 - Demographics
AgoraIn 2019, one of us wrote a book[1] about the Greek economy called “The Macroeconomy of Greece... demographics impacts the availability of labor (L). Population. Figure 1 refreshes the population baseline... demographic transition is moving toward an elderly and smaller population. In Table 1, we provide a sample
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National Bank reports 1.15 bln H1 profit on back of 1 bln deferred tax
EconomyBankingYoY in H1 but rose 1 percent QoQ with net interest margin (NIM) improving to 2.74 percent in Q2. The quarterly rebound in NII is attributed to Turkey (up 6 percent), while Greek NII eased 1 percent QoQ.... Deposits rose 8 percent YoY in H1 and slipped 1 percent QoQ to 65.4 billion euros. In Greece, deposits
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Greece seeks to finalise 1 pct of GDP in new tax measures to close review
EconomyMacroeconomymeasures related to pension reform and direct taxes - each yielding 1 percent of GDP (1.8 billion euros) - the government has to identify additional measures of 1 percent of GDP to cover the fiscal gap of 3... to cover this last 1 percent of GDP are primarily focused on raising (indirect) tax revenues and include
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NBG turns profitable in Q3, NPE stock drops further by 1 billion
EconomyBankingstraight quarter by 1 billion QoQ to 20.1 billion at the end of September. Overall, NBG’s NPEs have... reflecting lower insurance income. Net interest income (NII) improved by almost 1 percent QoQ to 485 million... percent in Q2, remaining by far the lowest among its domestic peers. The Common Equity Tier 1 (CET1) ratio
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CPI rises for ninth straight month in Sept with 1 pct increase
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose by 1 percent in September, up slightly from the 0.9...’ and services’ indices advanced by 1.1 and 1 percent, respectively. The harmonised index of consumer prices (HICP) also rose by 1 percent in September, up from August’s figure of 0.6 percent. The main driving
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CPI rises by 1 pct in August, staying positive for fifth month
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose by 1 percent in August after a rise of 0.9 percent in July... that the figure has landed at 1 percent. The average CPI for the latest 12-months since August 2017 remained...), health (+1.5 percent) and hotels, cafes and restaurants. Smaller rises ranging between 1 percent and 0.2
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