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GDP grew by 0.8 pct QoQ in Q4, 2025 real growth at 2.1 pct
EconomyMacroeconomywere up by 3 percent QoQ and services exports decreased by 0.3 percent. Imports of goods rose by 4.6 percent and services were up by 1.1 percent. Compared to Q4 2024, final consumption increased by 1.6..., while imports were up by 1.1 percent. Goods exports increased by 7.1 percent YoY, while services were
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An issue of statistical significance in Greece
Agora, was pumped up so it would be bigger than Ireland’s, which was 14.3 percent, and therefore the biggest... forces from within and abroad. The strength of their argument does not stack up against the facts... on such a macroeconomic and fiscal framework, the Karamanlis government was setting itself up
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Debt relief or debt restructuring for Greece?
Agorafirmly put on the agenda the follow-up issue of restructuring migration, i.e. from private sector... the publicly articulated positions in Brussels and Frankfurt. Its merit is backed up by the current dynamics... leading up to 2010, Greek social security funds were next to domestic banks among the largest
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Greece in danger of repeating familiar mistakes with Golden Dawn
Agorathe jig was up, others believed the myths promulgated by the new generation of populists about “traitor... and the make-up of its supporters suggest that if Golden Dawn was to disappear, something else would spring up in its place. At a rally on Saturday, spokesman Ilias Kasidiaris said that if Golden Dawn
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The wrong prescription
Agoraof nit-picking. Some changes appear to bring little financial benefit and may, in fact, end up...’s recommendation is summed up in the following paragraph: “Making OTC medicines and dietary.... They also have to wait up to six months for social security funds and healthcare provider EOPYY to pay
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Omnibus bill passes but leaves marks on coalition and SYRIZA
PoliticsGreek Politicsin order to secure up to 12 billion euros in bailout funding and then turning the focus within the eurozone... up to May’s local and European Parliament elections. This multi-bill likely provided the last major.... It was certainly a high risk move by Tsipras as it opens his party up to criticism that it put national
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Has SYRIZA's moment gone?
Agorain the second of the 2012 polls, Tsipras faced a choice: SYRIZA could try to open up to a wider audience.... As Greece’s bailout agreement nears its end SYRIZA MPs still tie themselves up in knots trying... demand for a large haircut. Tsipras and his party try to make up for their inability
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One night in Cannes
Agorain Europe and at home, although Papandreou's plan was given the thumbs up by some commentators... for the Greek people, a time to reconcile themselves with how their county had ended up on the eurozone... to the first bailout, Samaras would have had to put up and shut up. His opportunist anti-austerity facade
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Public deficit and democratic duty
Agorawas “over-dramatised” (or “sexed up” if you prefer) by the PASOK government that took over... minister could his government have conjured up a deficit of 15.8 percent from nothing. One only needs to go... of the budgeted expenses already used up while revenues stood at just 31 percent of the annual target
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The IMF crisis and how to solve it
Agorabinned. It said nothing about what the "valuable lessons" were; or about follow-up work on how... that institutional biases are being tackled is to open up its kitchen to public scrutiny. Fund staff and real... set up when monetary policy credibility was at a low ebb; a strong analogy with the Fund. Now
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