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From a tsunami of debt to some sense of normality
Agorato repay any programme loans before 2020, when circa 700 million of bilateral loans from the first...Greece’s debt managers outlined in the budget process that started last October their main goals...’s previous attempt to restore its relationship with international markets in February 2018
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Central govt debt rises again in Q4, reaching 388.3 bln euros
EconomyMacroeconomyof FSM loans relate to the EU’s financial aid of 256.5 billion, of which 52.9 billion came from the Greek Loan Facility’s (GLF) bilateral loans attached to the first programme, which Greece has started...Greece’s central government debt increased by roughly 2 billion euros in the last quarter 2021
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Newsletter 177 -05/10/2018
year’s pension cuts, although a definitive decision is still a few weeks away. The Greek government... following Monday’s meeting. He indicated that there is a possibility of Greece reaching a compromise... as part of the negotiations to conclude the third bailout’s second review in 2017. This is in line
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Much ground to cover on prior actions despite privatisation progress
EconomyProgrammeThis week’s report in German newspaper Handelsblatt concerning some of the debt relief proposals... to reduce Greece’s servicing costs. He also insisted that all this would be in place by August... a question mark over whether the remaining leftover funds could be used to reduce the amount of bilateral
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Police and protests at centre of political leaders' debate
PoliticsGreek Politicsas an example of its efforts to heal wounds, as opposed to SYRIZA’s efforts to pour salt in them. Tsipras’s... the need to create another ombudsman’s position, noting that the current one already investigates claims... leader of undermining the manner in which citizens are informed because of his government’s handouts
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What capital controls will mean for Greek banks, customers and the economy
Economythat led the Greek government to such a decision. Shortly after the prime minister’s televised address... move to the Greek government’s decision to hold a referendum and the expiration of the extension to Greece’s bailout programme on Tuesday. The ECB’s decision made the imposition of capital controls
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Coalition hopeful on pensions, looks to maximise impact of limited relief measures
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe Greek government is becoming increasingly optimistic that it can avoid next year’s pension cuts... compensatory fiscal measures it will be able to implement if European lenders agreed to Athens’s... that the institutions will agree to scrapping the pension cuts after Monday’s meeting of eurozone finance
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Mitsotakis appeals to centre-ground voters in bid to score decisive victory
PoliticsGreek PoliticsNew Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis is spending the final days of the campaign before Sunday’s... stronger support in this group than New Democracy. A Metron Analysis survey published in Sunday’s... police officers that would be deployed to the DIAS and DELTA motorcycle-riding squads. He also
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Newsletter 272 -06/11/2020
-Christmas retail period. The decision appears to have been taken at the urging of the government’s expert... in Thessaloniki filling up in a matter of days. The head of the government’s pandemic advisory... sees 2020 at -9 pct, from -7.5 pct in September and does not expect next year’s recovery to exceed 5
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Greece to enter second lockdown as govt faces criticism over 'total failure'
PoliticsGreek Politicsin Covid-19 infection rates, which have increased pressure on the country’s healthcare system... to have been taken at the urging of the government’s expert advisory committee, after observing... of the government’s pandemic advisory committee, Professor Sotiris Tsiodras, which showed infections
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