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  1. Alpha Bank's 2025 net profits at 943.3 mln, cash dividend at 259 mln
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    EconomyBanking

    euros in 2025, down by 2.2 percent year-on-year, from 1.65 billion in 2024. Net fee and commission... were 849.5 million euros in 2025, from 852.7 million euros last year. Loan loss impairments dropped... loans amounted to 40.18 billion euros in 2025, from 39.83 billion euros a year ago. Group deposits were

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  2. Energy crisis puts squeeze on Greek fiscal policy
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    Agora

    goods. The measure, a legacy of the Ukraine conflict, had been in place until May last year. Still.... With national elections roughly a year away, there is little room for another wave of price increases... revenues of 40.9 billion euros, up from 39.21 billion last year and 36.92 billion in 2024. VAT

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  3. Strong travel receipts in Jan, balance up 157.6 pct YoY
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    for the month were 473.3 million euros, compared to 297.8 million euros in 2025, up 58.4 percent year-on-year (YoY). Travel payments rose by 15.1 percent to 239.3 million euros. The number of arrivals... to circa 430 euros from 361 euros in January 2025. Over the full year 2025, travel receipts increased

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  4. Rising prices and energy pressures threaten to undermine 2026 outlook
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    in December. At the end of last year, private consumption had been forecast to grow by 2%, investments..., aligning with the Bank of Greece, which also sees growth at 1.9% this year. The European Commission last... slightly lower at 1.8% for the year, citing the impact of the Iran conflict and long‑standing

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  5. In hindsight it would have been nicer

    Agora

    to listen. Only a month had passed since the three-year anniversary of Greece signing its first... this year, an argument that in itself makes a mockery of Greece’s tremendous fiscal efforts. A nation... eurozone stability, Greece is now in a position to tell the eurozone that this year it will run

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  6. Volunteers try to fill void left by retreating Greek state
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    Society

    together in May this year to form the Symahoi Ygeias (Allies of Health). While some of the group... by volunteer doctors and other staff who provide medical assistance to more than 4,000 people a year... life. Even last year, Greece came 145th out of 146 countries in the World Giving Index, which also

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  7. Cash deficit to October widens to 9.1 billion euros

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    percent to 9.08 billion euros from 6.78 billion last year, according to the Bank of Greece (BoG... in the corresponding period last year It is worth noting that the budget deficit to October narrowed... in line until last year, but this year there two major discrepancies stemming from: a) the inclusion

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  8. Credit origination and transmission: Are Greek banks part of the problem or the solution?
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    Agora

    on a two-year downward trajectory. As graph 1 below illustrates total lending to the real economy shows... credit to the private sector declined by 3.9 per cent year-on-year. The pace of credit contraction... was reached in March of this year, an increase of 11 billion euros compared to September 2012. When broken

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  9. With troika OK pending, 2014 budget sees primary surplus at 1.6 pct of GDP
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    of the troika since discussions between the two sides on next year’s fiscal gap and other matters have... estate property tax, which will replace the current property levy from next year, are estimated... million compared to the 2013 figure. After falling by 50 percent this year, interest payments

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  10. After Merkel, Samaras faces immediate challenges on domestic front
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    any differences with the troika over the size of next year’s fiscal gap, by rejecting a new package... returned to face a series of tests for his government before the end of the year. There is, of course... billion euros next year and not 2 billion or more as the troika had requested. The 2014 budget

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