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Newsletter 476 - 19/09/2025
’s Sokratis Famellos, speaking earlier, cast Mitsotakis’s tax cuts as a tactical move rather than... for most households. Saving is a luxury that cannot be afforded for eight in ten households, and more than half of the households cannot afford an unexpected expense of 500 euros. EEA presented this strong
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Papandreou boasts strong backing as KINAL gears up to elect new leader
PoliticsGreek Politicsvotes, and there is a sense that he would be more amenable than other hopefuls to the prospect.... This would be the case if any candidate were to gain more than 50 pct of the vote this weekend... in November 2017, around 210,000 people voted in the first round and more than 155,000 in the run-off vote
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Strong surplus in Nov as travel balance nears year-end with 58.6 pct of 2019 intakes, 46.7 pct of arrivals
EconomyMacroeconomyon the travel front continues to be encouraging – apart from rising by more than five times compared to the 33.3-million-euros figure of last year, the November 2021 data is even higher than the 108.8 million... expenditure per trip increased by 25.6 percent, to 495.3 euros, and significantly higher than the 308.4
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Budget primary balance continues strong performance in Oct, ahead of target by 6.4 bln
EconomyMacroeconomyby more than 6.4 billion euros against an anticipated deficit of 6.75 billion euros at this point...-euro deficit in October 2021. The overall balance is better than the target by 6.26 billion euros.... PIB expenditure came to 6.06 billion euros, higher than the target by 255 million euros. Overall
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Historic victory for SYRIZA in EU vote unlikely to dislodge Greek coalition
PoliticsGreek Politicsthan expected showing from the PASOK-led Elia (Olive Tree) alliance means that the victory... the previous European ballot by more than 20 percentage points. However, it is the leftists’ failure... that there is strong momentum in its favour. It is no surprise that in his post-election address Prime Minister
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Newsletter 49 - 30/10/2015
is worth less than 120,000 euros and whose annual income is close to the poverty threshold, meaning... reports claim that the quadriga’s proposal would protect less than one-fifth of indebted households... who say they backed New Democracy at the last elections than Tzitzikostas, while the younger man
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Yes or no, complex political developments lie ahead for Greece
PoliticsGreek Politicsif the institutions put on the table a proposal with more onerous terms than the one being put... if an accurate projection will be available then. As this is Greece’s first referendum in more than 40 years... of the result will only be available at 9 p.m. if there is more than 4 percentage points difference between
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Newsletter 171 -20/07/2018
is key to Tsipras's election planning. If the intervention is put off or counter-balanced... is that the minimum the government will agree with the creditors is for the cuts to be put off for six... rather than making a break from the past. This argument will seem much less convincing if Tsipras
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Newsletter 193 -08/02/2018
percent last week, which was more than the 5-10 percent that the committee of experts appointed... Greece’s lenders gave a less than favourable verdict of the government’s outstanding post-programme... that have been provided by the European Stability Mechanism, rather than whether all the arrears have
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Newsletter 314 - 29/10/2021
, hospitalisations and deaths put the pandemic firmly back onto Greece’s political agenda... of the vote to 8.10, which was considered a strong result for the centre-left grouping amid a highly... than to be pulled in one direction or the other by the prevailing political winds and the promise
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