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A marriage of inconvenience
Agora, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. When Kostas Karamanlis attended the Istanbul nuptials more than... to go further than the customary unauthorised overflights in its attempts to rattle Athens... reportedly would have only allowed the plane to enter their air space if it stopped in Bodrum rather than
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Budget primary surplus jumps to 1.19 bln in Jan, largely on rising PIB revenues
EconomyMacroeconomyyear and 876 million better than the target. Revenues Revenues (before tax refunds) grew by 2.3... in January, 86 million better than the target and mitigated the underperformance of tax revenues. Meanwhile, tax refunds declined by 16.9 percent to 296 million, 50 million lower than target
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Healthy eating and smoking on decline in Greece over last five years
SocietyGreeks ate vegetables and fruit, smoked cigarettes and drank less frequently in 2014 than five... was greater for men (14.6 percent) than women (6.1 percent). In comparison with the 2009 results... smoke occasionally over the same period. Men were much more likely to smoke (39 percent) than women
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Newsletter 75 - 27/05/2016
of no more than 1.5 percent of GDP, compared to the 3.5 percent envisaged in the third eurozone bailout... a high of 220.43 billion at the end of December and currently make up more than 68 percent of central... pretty simple: look no further than German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble. Even when it appeared
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Net job hirings hit 33,608 in June, highest since 2001
EconomyMacroeconomysince June 2001 and more than double the previous high of 16,017 in 2003. The employment breakdown..., with the bulk of more than 126,700 related to lay-offs and the remaining of 79,260 to voluntary departures. Less than half (around 44 percent) of June hirings involve full-time employment, compared to more
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Unpopular but effective property tax returns for another year
EconomyMacroeconomyENFIA due would be much higher than that of last year and could top 4 billion in 2016 from less than 3.3... property value, while the ENFIA due was less than 50 euros for an aggregate amount of 21.1 million making... percent. The breakdown also showed that more than half (51.5 percent) of taxpayers were due to pay
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Budget primary surplus of 3.6 bln by July, monthly revenues short of target by 315 mln
EconomyMacroeconomy, largely attributed to lower expenditure (2 billion below target) and higher than expected revenues... million lower than that in the first half. For the full year target of 50.57 billion euros to be met... expenditure increased by 4.1 percent to 22.31 billion in the 7-month period and remains more than 2
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Greece's harsh social reality
Agoramarriages of all durations, the most marked rise was in marriages of more than 10 years, where... from employment. In the same year, more than 1.1 million Greeks were living in low-work intensity homes, where working-age members worked less than 20 percent of their work potential and availability
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Budget primary surplus of 3.8 bln to Aug beats target by wide margin
EconomyMacroeconomylast year, and 98 million higher than target. Overall, net revenues grew 1.9 percent in August and 4.1..., remaining 2 billion lower than target. MoF said that compared to last year, expenditure increased by 292... the 8-month figure stood at 4.79 billion, down 2.3 percent and 69 million lower than target. Summing
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Rise in overdue contributions slows to 310 mln in Q3, total at 16.9 bln
EconomyMacroeconomyof the total overdue stock of 16.92 billion euros, 12.23 billion (more than 72 percent) relate to main...-September figure standing at 303,821 debtors. The breakdown shows 40.3 percent of debtors owe less than... includes 122,319 debtors and recorded a drop by 1,772 from the previous quarter. In addition, more than
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