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  1. The dragon's head roars in Athens
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    Agora

    increase by a further 40 million euros as project construction progresses. The loan has a maturity... agreement which the EIB has ever made available for a maritime project in Greece. With the EIB now... in a major Chinese infrastructure project in Greece the EU now has skin in the game. Meanwhile, the Chinese

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  2. OECD report traces change in public spending over a decade
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    EconomyFeatures

    The latest OECD Government at a Glance report for 2019 has illustrated the way in which public spending has changed in Greece across the crisis years. It shows the extensive change in Greece’s public... as of 2018. Judicial services The timeliness of judicial services has long been an issue raised when

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  3. Newsletter 229 -22/11/2019

    Newsletters

    of 3.5 percent of GDP in 2020. The EC has an overall favourable view of its cooperation with the new... interest rate environment for Greek debt that has manifested itself throughout this year, with the caveat.... As such, the steady interest state assumptions have remained unchanged. To capture this the EC has introduced

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  4. Piraeus Bank posts net profit of 44 mln in Q3 from continued operations
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    EconomyBanking

    the September 2015 peak, NPEs have fallen by 12 billion euros. Management noted that it has concluded the sale... noted that Piraeus Bank has frontloaded workstreams on a 2-billion-euro mortgage securitisation..., the QoQ increase in the top line has almost absorbed the cost of the new Tier II issue. The new time

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  5. Constitution tweaked, consensus sought for Greek diaspora vote and next president
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    that Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis does not seem to be considering proposing a second term) has already... the nationalist party was part of the governing coalition with SYRIZA. The controversy has been fuelled... has not been averse to favouritism since it came to power even though the reaction in the local

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  6. Focus shifts to DSA, fiscal targets after IMF loan prepayment
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    EconomyProgramme

    of the outstanding obligations to the IMF has been completed after Athens paid ahead of time 2.7 billion euros... euros. Greece has already repaid the Stand-by Arrangement of the first programme and until yesterday’s... Greece has to start repaying next year. Not factoring in T-bills, the Greek authorities have

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  7. PM aims to maintain pace of economic reforms as public worries about migration

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    representing PPC workers, has strong objections to the change in hiring rules at the power company... flexibility in the company’s workforce. In his meetings with European leaders, Mitsotakis has reportedly... the government aims to make in the coming months. Progress on this front has been slow since the summer

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  8. Greek pupils score below average in international rankings as long-term problems persist
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    Society

    The poor condition of Greece’s state education system has been laid bare in the latest OECD’s..., and is carried out in a number of countries worldwide. The survey has been carried out every three years... they live. As diaNeosis pointed out, after almost two decades of the PISA evaluation, there has been

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  9. OECD report shows poor quality of services and low trust in govt

    EconomyFeatures

    The OECD Government at a Glance report for 2019 has shown the shortcomings in providing services.... The report showed that trust in government has deteriorated by 22 percentage points in Greece between... and 2018 by 10 percentage points. In contrast, satisfaction with the education system has increased since

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  10. PDMA sets 2020 goals to build on improving conditions for debt
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    Economy

    are in negative territory. The investor base has broadened, attracting more long-term investors, especially insurance and pension funds, while Greece’s rating has been upgraded by two major agencies: S&P..., this further compliments the fact that more than 90 percent of Greece's debt has fixed rates

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