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Greek stocks post second highest drop on record over political concerns
EconomyThe government’s sudden decision to bring forward the presidential ballot by two months proved a negative surprise for the domestic stock market and investor sentiment was seriously damaged. A sell-off prevailed on Tuesday from the market opening and was widespread across all sectors, accelerating
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Greek tax revenues at 33.5 pct of GDP in 2013, slightly below OECD average
EconomyMacroeconomyif VAT was applied at the standard rate to the entire potential tax base in a “pure” VAT regime and all
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Papandreou seeks new, undefined role on political centre stage in Greece
PoliticsGreek Politicsobvious answer is that it could be a potential coalition partner for SYRIZA. All opinion polls bar one
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Greek budget primary surplus up to 3.53 bln at end of November despite revenue shortfall
EconomyMacroeconomyhigher than November’s last year), all indications point to a revenue underperformance for the whole
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Troika document reveals thorny issues, coalition's commitments to conclude review
EconomyProgrammedeclared Greece’s “unequivocally commitment to take all actions necessary for completing the current
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First vote for president leaves coalition with uphill task to avoid snap elections
PoliticsGreek Politics), Stathis Boukouras and Chrysovalantis Alexopoulos (both ex-Golden Dawn). All three were considered
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The one question SYRIZA needs to answer
Agorainevitable and all developments with regards to concluding the latest troika review will be put on hold
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Q3 unemployment falls to 25.5 pct, lowest since 2012, but long-term jobless reach new high
EconomyMacroeconomythe 27-percent mark in all cases. In contrast, the unemployment rate in the Southern Aegean and the Ionian
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PM and SYRIZA deaf to calls for compromise over president so far
PoliticsGreek Politicsoffice has repeatedly rejected all talk of any kind of deal, favouring instead what they call
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Piraeus Bank seals milestone deal with KKR over 1.2 bln of non-core assets
EconomyBankingwith NPLs at 472 million). All current indications point to a more active management of NPLs
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