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The place where sanity goes to die
Agorafor which Greece would have to maintain a primary surplus of 3.5 percent of GDP. Brushing off the Greek... the other way and sign off on what was presented as progress in the Greek programme. Now the IMF has... deliberately put off for a long time. In mid-October, when this review began, Athens came to the table
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Mitsotakis vows to push on with tax cuts despite fiscal concerns
PoliticsGreek PoliticsNew Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis has brushed off concerns that the lack of fiscal space... the lenders regarding Greece’s public finances veering off track due to SYRIZA’s handouts. In fact... that this would allow Greece to pay off its debt quicker. “You have different revenues if you grow with 2
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Losing game: Another doomed effort to revive Greek football?
Agoraconditions off the field and any sense of fair competition in general. Between 2010 and 2017, average.... Shifting the goalposts The lifeblood of the game is being cut off but few of those involved seem... decades. In 1988, supporters of Thessaly club Larissa took to the streets and cut off traffic
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Newsletter 328 - 18/02/2022
was looking at the possibility of making a one-off benefit payment to vulnerable groups before Easter... recently grabbed the headlines after the murder of a football fan.EconomySpiralling prices set off wide... overperformance that will allow them to allocate roughly 300 million euros to the one-off benefit, like
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Where is Odysseus? Part 1 - Demographics
Agora. It is worth asking what happened to Odysseus and his people who set off on their journey in relatively... demographic projections, the Greek population is now expected to be slightly larger, and level off... data are interesting. In the 2011 vintage, the population did not start to ease off until the 2020s
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Relief measures being lined up, but PM's eye also on reforms rollout
PoliticsGreek Politicsand 300 million euros will probably be needed to cover the cost of the one-off payment aimed at helping those worse off with the burden of rising prices. If this initiative goes ahead, it is widely expected... or for their one-off pension bonus to rise on retirement. Combined with the scrapping of the solidarity levy
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PM prepares to finalise relief package as talk of electoral tweak gathers pace
PoliticsGreek Politicsto arrest a slide in living standards and head off the demographic challenges that threaten future... the prime minister can continue to repel suggestions that he himself has previously deemed off... will see it as an opportunistic move that will turn them off voting for ND.
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Focus of banking sector commitments shift to NPL reduction, debt restructuring framework
EconomyProgrammewill continue to make every reasonable effort to ensure the compliance of the board members of all... mandate of the HFSF shall be extended until end-2022. The independence of the HFSF is to be fully
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General govt primary cash surplus falls to 2.63 bln in six-month, arrears rise to 5.13 bln
EconomyMacroeconomy, driven by a sharp decline in transfers which fell by nearly half (-2.03 billion) to 2.26 billion... at 2.26 billion euros at the end of June. This represents 43.9 percent of total arrears. Tax refunds
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In hindsight it would have been nicer
Agoraand debt trajectory were veering off track. This is in contrast to the often cited criticism that Greece’s... for potential bank bailouts, the preferred path was to saddle Greece with debt to pay off these banks... a staggering 24 billion euros or 10 percent of GDP just four years ago. Every single troika member
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