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Greek stocks slip 1.7 pct during week with subdued volumes
Economyand the mission chiefs resumed in Athens, with the Finance Ministry indicating there has been..., landing at 561.61. Since the beginning of the year, the domestic stock market has fallen by 11 percent... tax measures equivalent to 1 percent of GDP to cover the remaining fiscal gap by 2018. According
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Car sales soar 24.5 pct in April
EconomyMacroeconomyof the remaining 1.8 billion euros of measures the government has to adopt for the conclusion of the first.... Overall, the number of road motor cars has shrunk by two thirds in the past seven years from
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Complex privatisation fund faces tall order to reduce Greek debt
Economy. This was envisaged in the Eurozone Summit statement of last July and has been repeatedly identified..., not always with satisfactory results. It has a wide range of assets including stakes in listed and non...On top of the fiscal measures yielding 3 percent of GDP by 2018, one of the key prior actions
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Protests give Mitsotakis chance to round on under-fire coalition
PoliticsGreek Politics’s performance, even though the impact of the latest round of austerity measures has not yet sunk.... SYRIZA has found itself in the uncomfortable position this year of being on the receiving end of protests
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Athens hopes for timely boost from visits by EU officials
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV), where he is expected to stress that the threat of Grexit has..., the visits of Juncker and Regling are an undoubted boost to the SYRIZA-led coalition, which has been... of the next programme review, due to begin in the autumn, and the discussion about debt relief measures
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Tsipras gets ball rolling on lengthy, ambitious bid to change constitution
PoliticsGreek Politicsabout the measures the government has adopted since being re-elected in September, but which could... and is not likely to be completed until the current bailout has been completed in 2018. In fact, the prime
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Factionalism rears its head in build-up to SYRIZA's congress
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor solidarity movements. This is not the first time that the party has issued statements criticising... has lost touch with its ideological roots and its original base of voters after agreeing to the third... left departing and weeks after implementing a series of austerity measures and reforms
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Wages index sees strong rebound of 4.6 pct in Q2
EconomyMacroeconomyin the previous two quarters. Over the past six quarters, the wages index has posted two QoQ and four... available, the index has posted a record high of 120.4 in Q1 2010 with the record low at 78.8 in Q1 2000... salaries suffered a series of cuts imposed by the austerity measures, including the abolition
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After talks with lenders, Greece returns to list of tasks to secure next bailout payment
EconomyProgrammeon labour issues has reportedly been scheduled for October 17. In an interview with Reuters... a 20 percent stake in the electricity transmission company (ADMIE) has already been implemented... for next year due to the the adoption and impact of specific measures. In a previous meeting
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After Article IV consultations IMF says challenges remain, substantial debt relief is needed
EconomyProgrammeand strengthen incentives for sustainable restructuring measures and NPL sales. Moreover, capital controls should be relaxed, banks’ corporate governance has to be strengthened by cutting links between both... has not managed to regain competitiveness. In the absence of product-market reform implementation
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