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Newsletter 84 - 29/07/2016
edged up to 45.1 percent in the first quarter of 2016, largely due to the ongoing deleveraging... on Tuesday confirmed the primary surplus reached 2.47 billion in the first half of the year, up 31... in June, leading the six-month figure up by 11 percent to 19.28 billion, 729 million above target
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Obama ends with big picture amid dwindling hope
Agoraof this are difficult in Europe,” he said. “And I think in fairness to some of the governments up north that I know... that if we can come up with a durable solution, as opposed to each year or every six months having a new... and a let-up in the fiscal pressure exercised by austerity was by no means revolutionary, nor indeed
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Rating agencies concur in improved prospects for Greece
Economythe legislation of fiscal measures up to 2020 as a development that will sustain the fiscal... the board, the agencies agree will secure the fiscal performance and the fiscal targets up to 2020 which... years of stagnation, growth is expected to significantly pick up in the short term, beginning from
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Newsletter 132
and the ability that Athens has to build up a cash buffer between now and August 2018, allowing... percent for anyone earning up to 10,000 euros. The third item of legislation that a New Democracy... of the year, overall expenditure went up by 527 million euros to 32.81 billion euros. Interest payments
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Newsletter 135 - 13/10/2017
the issuance of 70,000 pensions by year end. In the draft budget, the Finance Ministry outlines that up... for this purpose, up to September. Adding to Greek authorities’ woes, unpaid taxes reached 1.07... and tobacco, transport, and housing. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose by 1 percent in September, up
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Adoptions fall by 18.5 pct in 2016 as recent decline continues
Societythe information was made available, children born out of wedlock make up the majority of those who were put up for adoption. Adoptees in this category fell by 9.1 percent year-on-year. Children born within a married unit who were subsequently put up for adoption declined by 53.8 percent in 2016
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A year of risk and reward for Greece
Agora, with growth expected to pick up in 2018 as confidence returns, boosting investment and consumption... be an exit from the programme, which they expect to be followed up by a fourth bailout. Their doubts... been like a prisoner in solitary confinement, told when to wake up, what to eat, how to exercise
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Newsletter 148 -26/01/2018
Name issue stirs up emotions As Skopje and Athens work on negotiations, domestic politicians take... view to SYRIZA on the matter. Mitsotakis’s speech, though, was mostly focussed on shoring up his own.... Eurosystem funding up by 786 mln in December Rise driven mainly by an increase in Emergency
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Macedonia and other Greek words
Agorabreak-up. Also, descendants of many Greek refugees who were expelled in the most barbarous..., the local variety of nationalists have talked up the threat from a country with a fifth... in Syntagma Square on Sunday to speak of a plan to carve up the Balkans and to accuse the government of being
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Finance Ministry waits for new property values as talk of bad bank gathers pace
EconomyProgrammerecent annual general meeting. The proposal for creating a financial institution that can sweep up bad... requirement needed to set up such an organisation. Greece’s lenders have not been willing so far to direct... a blueprint on the set-up of national asset management companies (AMCs). The proposals show member
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