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Government turns attention to migration, hoping to avoid another front before EP vote
PoliticsGreek Politicsin the government ranks about a spike in arrivals from Libya, particularly on the island of Gavdos, south of Crete... up to 6.5 pct. No other party registered more than 3 pct in the GPO survey. The poll also
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Unhappy voters struggle to find alternatives as PM faces fresh attack from veteran conservatives
PoliticsGreek Politicssliding more than two percentage points to third. Communist Party KKE and Greek Solution... with the neighbouring country and of picking the wrong faction to ally with in Libya. Karamanlis voiced
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New Democracy tries to win over voters with crackdown on bank charges, migration
PoliticsGreek Politicsin less than a year that the government has stepped in to lower the fees charged by Greek banks, which... approach on migration in response to increased arrivals from Libya also comes at a time when New
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Where is Greek growth coming from?
Agorathe supply-constraint interpretation of Greece, rather than that the economy has a demand problem... were moderate, but, gradually, the economy showed progress toward more positive than negative real..., activity at the end of the year will be higher than at the average of the year. This difference
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Athens looks to Draghi for positive signals on debt relief
PoliticsGreek Politicsto be undertaken to address this problem. And the governing council when time will come, will assess... understand that Greece’s problem isn’t its debt level but Greece’s problem is its lack in competitiveness... willingness to tackle a couple of reforms.” Athens would rather focus on comments like Draghi’s than
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Greece’s unstable and confusing tax system failing to deliver results
EconomyMacroeconomya significant problem when considering that Greece has the worst levels of collection for overdue debts... percent in 2014, and had risen to 50.7 percent in 2017, higher than Sweden’s rate of 49 percent. This is not the only report which has highlighted the problem of Greece’s system of taxation and revenues
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Cabinet act firms up details of CoCos issuance by Greek banks
Economy“pari passu” to common shares. They bear an annual coupon of 8 percent for the first 7-year period after
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Early IMF repayment next goal for Athens after concluding second post-MoU review
EconomyProgrammecreditors due to the pari passu clause. “Also from the ESM perspective, it would make sense to repay
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New president receives strong endorsement, hints at areas of interest
PoliticsGreek PoliticsSenior judge Katerina Sakellaropoulou was elected Greece's new, and first female, president on Wednesday by the vast majority of the country’s MPs, vindicating Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s choice, but also justifying SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras...
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Govt hints at more relief, as economy and inflation jostle with pandemic as top public concerns
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe rising cost of living and the potential impact of new Covid rules on retail and catering are increasing the pressure on the government for more support measures, as the epidemiological picture takes on an increasingly urgent hue. The Energy and Fina...
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