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Energy conference highlights path and obstacles to European energy integration
EconomyFeaturesin terms of energy security is the role of Turkey, whose cooperation on energy has been tied... Internazionali, addressed these concerns. “Turkey has been moving closer to Russia, but it’s in Turkey’s... and Turkey is a multilayer factor. There has been a lot of progress in terms of the electricity market
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Tsipras gets approval for gender bill despite coalition partner's absence
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe particular circumstances surrounding the legislation. ANEL has also broken ranks in the past on social.... Their political alliance is far from perfect but has proved time and again that it is able... to come to an end. Centre-left A new date has been set for the vote to elect a leader for the centre-left
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Athens waits to sound out IMF, PM moves on from vote
PoliticsGreek PoliticsMinister Alexis Tsipras’s visit to Washington next week, the government has some time to take stock... has raised hopes in Greece that discussions over next year’s fiscal gap, as part of the third review... for Athens to get a full picture of where the IMF stands. There has been much concern within
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Eurosystem funding falls by 3.58 bln in September
EconomyMacroeconomyCentral Bank (ECB) funding fell by 1.21 billion to 13.23 billion euros. ELA funding has fallen every... review. The reduction in ELA funding in September had largely been anticipated, as the ECB has been... of the first programme review, central bank funding has fallen by 53.99 billion, with around two-thirds
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Greece bottom of table for gender equality progress in EU
Society) has revealed that Greece has made the worst overall progress in the EU on gender equality between 2005... of women. Almost no improvement has been made in this domain over the last decade with an improvement of just one percentage point in 10 years. Greece has one of the highest gender gaps concerning housework
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Newsletter 136 - 20/10/2017
, which has not yet been concluded, would not affect the effort to meet fiscal targets.... Trump said that Greece has a “great role” in stability in the area, while Pence called it a “pillar... on these issues, as well as the Balkans, suggested that the deterioration in US-Turkish relations has
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Sub-tranche, 2017 fiscal performance ticked off on first day of review talks
EconomyProgrammeof the 800-million-euro bailout sub-tranche that has been pending since the summer. The lenders had demanded... silence some doubters who suggested that it might miss the end-October target, but it still has the much.... The government has previously suggested that the excess surplus would be around 1 billion euros and would
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Household disposable income fell by another 2.3 pct in 2016, consumption down by 1 pct
EconomyMacroeconomysurplus of 100 million. Throughout the crisis, Greece’s balance with the rest of the world has.... The cumulative drop since 2010 in disposable income has reached 40 percent, while consumption has been reduced by 28 percent. The drop in disposable income and the reduction in gross saving has pushed
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Effort to end notaries' strike amid concern for auctions, NPLs
EconomyProgrammeproperty auctions, which has led to the latter group refusing to take part in any more..., including electronic ones that are due to start at the end of November, has triggered concern within... to the government that the issue has to be dealt with quickly. As a result, Justice Minister Stavros
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Parliament to take up Kammenos allegations next week
PoliticsGreek Politicsof a middleman in the deal, who the Saudis denied knowledge of, Kammenos has also been accused in the Greek.... The government so far has dismissed the claims of wrongdoing against Kammenos and put the allegations down to destabilising efforts by the opposition and parts of the media with which the defence minister has had
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