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Budget execution shows surplus of 811 mln at start of 2014
EconomyMacroeconomy1 billion euros compared to the initial estimate of 812 million incorporated in the 2014 budget... the ESA-95 methodology. Thus, the equivalent MoF projection of 812 million under EAP stands at 3.9
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Gov't adopts patchwork of measures to overcome liquidity problems
EconomyProgramme: 310 million on March 6, 348 million on March 13 and 581 million on March 16. The last tranche... remaining 310 million relate to 90 percent of HFSF current cash reserves that until the end of 2015
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Pension and income tax reform bill sets out 4.4 bln in new measures
EconomyProgrammeThe government tabled in Parliament on Friday evening the bill containing the pension and income tax reforms it had put to public consultation a few days earlier. The draft legislation also introduces a change to gaming taxation. The bill is expected to...
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Eurosystem funding falls by another 4.4 bln in August
EconomyMacroeconomyGreek banks’ Eurosystem funding remained on a downward trend for the fourteenth successive month in August, when it dropped by 4.39 billion euros, after a similar fall of 4.3 billion in July, Bank of Greece's (BoG) monthly financial statement displayed ...
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Significant revenue outperformance drives budget primary surplus to 4.4 bln in 2016
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece’s budget primary surplus stood at 4.39 billion in 2016, almost double the 2015 figure of 2.27 billion, the Finance Ministry (MoF) preliminary budget execution bulletin revealed on Tuesday. The headline figure beat the full-year target by 2.41 bil...
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Cyprus in 2014: Looking ahead
AgoraCyprus has the habit of grabbing international attention in a global way, only to then be marginalised as a footnote when the immediate crisis seems to have abated. This has been historically true in issues of communal violence and the Annan plan, in what we Cypriots call “the original Cyprus
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Between the sword and the olive branch: Dilemmas of Greek diplomacy
Agora, the son of the late Tassos Papadopoulos, who led Greek-Cypriots in rejecting the Annan Plan
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Davutoglu departure prompts concern about Turkish unpredictability in Athens
PoliticsForeign Policy. Davutoglu has been a major factor in Turkey’s positive stance when the Annan Plan for Cyprus
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Athens sees Cyprus talks progressing despite lack of deal in Geneva
PoliticsForeign Policyvia the Annan Plan in 2004. However, he concluded by saying: “It is out of question for the Turkish
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Competing claims and narratives in Eastern Mediterranean
Agora, proposals and settlement plans that have been based on those principles, such as the Annan Plan
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