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Amid Eurogroup stalemate, Athens focusses on extra liquidity available after ECB move
Economyto cover medical costs, but should come with conditions if they are used for economic support. It has... available. The European Investment Bank has also proposed guaranteeing up to 200 billion euros of loans... of this budget has to come with some form of conditions. — Wopke Hoekstra (@WBHoekstra) April 8, 2020
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Officials monitor new Covid-19 outbreak, extend school closures
PoliticsGreek Politicsinto contact with residents of a nearby migrant camp, which has also been placed under lockdown. Sotiris... has so far received considerable international recognition for moving quickly to restrict movement... has been taken yet about whether schools will reopen before the summer. She said that this depends
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Greece heads back to markets with 7-year bond in bid to boost own funds
Economythe pandemic’s appearance, the situation has changed dramatically as the economy has come to standstill..., Greece has an estimated cash reserve that exceeds 35 billion euros. Close to 16 billion euros... debt managers want to sustain this for when the pandemic has passed. The third option, which
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Digital investments could provide long-term GDP boost, study finds
EconomyFeaturesThe National bank of Greece (NBG) has released an analysis examining how Greece could benefit.... The report entitled A Digital Reboot of the Greek Economy showed that Greece has an unexploited pool... Digitalisation Index (BDI) and found that Greece has a BDI gap of 37 points versus the EU average and a gap
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Mitsotakis to set out lockdown relaxation plan as ND scales back economic support
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat has been in place since March, marking the first steps for Greece towards returning to something... can be salvaged partly based on the positive reports about the way Greece has managed to limit..., their politicians seem one step ahead of them. The intensity of Greek politics has increased a notch or two
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Govt faces pushback from food service sector over re-opening rules
PoliticsGreek PoliticsMitsotakis is trying to broaden the political agenda to non-pandemic related issues. He has announced... era. Mitsotakis has invited all political leaders to join him in the plaque’s unveiling in central... to the party or the radical/extreme left. SYRIZA has always denied any connection to the incident
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ND hopes economy will pick up as second stage of lockdown easing begins
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the coronavirus crisis on households but also limiting the public finances that the government has to make... Staikouras have already made it clear to the public that the government has limited financial.... The monitoring will be much lighter than Greece has been used to during its MoUs and the enhanced
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Newsletter 251 -22/05/2020
Democracy leading SYRIZA by 19.7 percent, confirming previous findings that the governing party has... surcharges. The report acknowledges that the pandemic has altered the social economic reality... concludes that given the extraordinary circumstances Greece has done enough to meet its reform
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Economic relief eyed as Greece launches fourth round of lockdown easing
PoliticsGreek Politics) is among those that has expressed reservations about the extent to which the government’s support... close, which puts 250,000 jobs at risk. The industry association has brought to the attention... Ministry argues that it has exhausted most of the fiscal space available for the time being and will now
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Haftar defeats prompt Athens to take fresh look at Libya crisis
PoliticsForeign Policyby Turkey has scored some victories over Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, are causing concern in Athens... what is going on in Libya, whose future has become unpredictable. The Greek side turned to Marshall... he has made regarding this matter, but he has also acknowledged that the situation in Libya
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