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  1. Economic sentiment improves markedly in Feb to 107.7 pts
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    Greece’s economic sentiment (ESI) improved in February, with the index at 107.7 points, from 105.4... the rolling 12-month period, February’s ESI was higher by just half a point from March 2025. The average ESI in the EU stood at 98.3 points in February, from 99.3 in the previous month. The euro area’s ESI

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  2. Economic sentiment declines in March, consumer confidence at lowest since 2022
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    Greece’s economic sentiment (ESI) deteriorated in March, with the index at 106.8 points, from 107.6... the rolling 12-month period, March’s ESI was essentially identical to April 2025. The average ESI in the EU stood at 96.7 points in March, from 98.2 in the previous month. The euro area’s ESI was also down

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  3. Samaras and Venizelos rule out elections but can't be sure they won't happen

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    Greece’s coalitions has decided against calling snap elections in the wake of Golden Dawn arrests... elections now. Venizelos went a stepped further and tried to double guess the 12 Golden Dawn MPs... they represent. This would require around half of the Greek electorate to go to the polls as Golden Dawn

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  4. Polls give New Democracy wafer-thin lead over SYRIZA

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    of SYRIZA and had Golden Dawn as Greece’s third biggest party, reaffirming the figures that have... percent, against SYRIZA’s 20.5. Golden Dawn was at 7.8 percent, still surprisingly high but lower... vs 21.1 percent. Golden Dawn remained the third most popular with 6.9 percent. The same polling

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  5. Violent clashes at Thessaloniki school turn focus on neo-Nazi youth recruitment
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    , while raising fears about the resurgence of neo-Nazi groups a year after the leaders of Golden Dawn... of Golden Dawn. The events have highlighted what some claim is a recruitment campaign by local members of Golden Dawn targeting students at the school, which is located in a low-income area of Greece’s

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  6. Ousting of govt MP brings to fore leadership unease, angst over far right
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    the outlawing of Golden Dawn. Secondly, Bodganos was only recently given a “yellow card” by New Democracy... themselves with Golden Dawn, suggesting that the foreign minister felt his colleague...,” concluded Dendias, who has in the past earned plaudits for confronting Golden Dawn MPs head

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  7. Company closures dropped sharply during the pandemic
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    EconomyFeatures

    and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles” which saw 8,082 closures. While that may seem... actually dropped 18.9 percent. In fact, only one sector saw an increase in the number of closures in 2020: electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply, which saw an increase of 26.4 percent

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  8. October revenues reverse earlier shortfall, annual primary surplus in sight

    Economy

    to the targets being beaten over the last four months, even though there is a steady increase

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  9. Two hurdles left for coalition this year before bigger challenges in 2014
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    Greece’s coalition has two more hurdles to clear before it stumbles over the finishing line at the end of the year, exhausted and battered but not quite yet beaten. The first challenge is to pass the new property tax, which unites previous disparate levies in one charge, through Parliament. The new

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  10. Wages index edges up YoY in Q1 after sinking by 24.8 pct since 2010

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    beaten by that of Cyprus (-7.9 percent). In addition, Greece and Cyprus are the only two countries

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