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Tracing the decline of the middle class as parties vie for its votes
EconomyFeatures, with the exception of the lowest earners who saw their tax increase threefold between 2012-2014 (though from.... Households earning 12,000-16,000 euros saw their tax increased by 21 percent in 2012-2014 and 26 percent..., Tsakalotos’s alternate minister Giorgos Houliarakis, gifted the opposition a winning card when he told
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Banks tout ambitious NPE plans to return to European mainstream
EconomyBankingsaw their 2020 results propped by bond swaps with the Greek state. That saw them book trading gains...Greece’s banks have started what was set to be a difficult year for them by winning plaudits for their progress towards meeting tough goals for reducing the stock of non-performing exposures. Last
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Newsletter 386 - 23/06/2023
apartments - over five years old - saw their prices increase by 15.6 pct YoY. New properties saw price... suggest that up to nine parties have a chance of winning seats, although no more than seven have a strong
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Ankara's reaction to marine parks proposal highlights obstacles to Greek-Turkish dialogue
PoliticsForeign Policysettlement of the Cyprus problem, within the UN framework, in accordance with the relevant UNSC... message that a solution to the Cyprus problem will only be based on a bi-communal, bi-zonal federation.... Tayyip Erdogan, who had hoped to regain control of the cities less than a year after winning
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Newsletter 62 - 12/02/2016
fund (IKA) saw the level of contributions paid in by workers plummet by 31.5 percent between 2010... government’s wayward and naïve negotiating strategy last year, which saw the early signs of an economic... that is heading upwards. The other rising indicator is the number of pressing problems Prime Minister
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Multiple crises fence in Greece
Agorafunds. The country’s main social security fund (IKA) saw the level of contributions paid..., which saw the early signs of an economic recovery wiped out and Greece’s banks undermined... is the number of pressing problems Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras faces. In the daze caused by those tense
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Newsletter 70 - 15/04/2016
the unilateral action we saw from the SYRIZA-led administration last year. The government made it clear... Macedonia (+11.6 percent) and North Aegean (+5.3 percent). January saw the number of building permits hit... into major balance sheet problems, the Fondazioni are not in a position to contribute on their own
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Promises and challenges of Greece's "green new deal"
EconomyFeaturesDemocracy government to speed up “de-lignitisation” - though it no doubt also saw an opportunity to put... to be systematically incentivised after 2001, and the ensuing decade saw a rapid growth in the installation... some of the chronic problems of Greece’s electricity supply. The 29 autonomous islands currently
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Newsletter 393 - 15/09/2023
was at 102.2 points in Q3 2008. Old apartments - those over five years old - saw their prices increase by 14.1 pct YoY. New properties saw price increases of 13.8 pct YoY. Prices in Athens and Thessaloniki... by a sense that the same chronic problems which plagued Greece in the past are still prevalent
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Company closures dropped sharply during the pandemic
EconomyFeaturesand retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles” which saw 8,082 closures. While that may seem... actually dropped 18.9 percent. In fact, only one sector saw an increase in the number of closures in 2020: electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply, which saw an increase of 26.4 percent
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