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Close to 32 mln visitors by Nov as 11-month travel receipts set record
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece’s travel balance recorded a surplus of 206.2 million euros in November, from 1.5 billion euros in October, according to Bank of Greece (BoG) data released on Monday. November’s balance was 3.9 percent higher than the 198.5 million euros registere...
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PASOK candidates set out their stalls as SYRIZA sinks further into mire
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe six candidates vying for the leadership of centre-left PASOK put their cases to the party’s central committee over the weekend as the first round of voting on October 6 approaches. Opinion polls, which pollsters are very guarded about because of the...
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Stage set for censure motion as Parliament votes to review charges against deputy minister
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe Greek Parliament approved on Tuesday night the formation of a preliminary inquiry into the role of Deputy Civil Protection Minister Christos Triantopoulos over the handling of the Tempe train crash site in the days after the fatal accident two years...
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Strong set of 2024 fiscal data provides space for voter-friendly handout package
EconomyMacroeconomyELSTAT published on Tuesday the latest fiscal data for the 2021 to 2024 period, recording a significant primary surplus that was accompanied by an announcement from PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis of a surprise handout package worth 1.1 billion euros in support ...
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Clarity over fiscal space clears way for next set of relief measures
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece’s fiscal outlook has become clearer along with the ability of the Greek government to implement more voter-friendly policies as it attempts to restore its relations with the electorate. The European Commission last week activated the national esc...
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Housing costs, food prices set limits to impact of tax cuts
EconomyThe Greek government’s efforts to shift the narrative and change its political fortunes are crashing against the realities on the ground as reflected in the frequent data releases from Eurostat and ELSTAT. Months of communications build-up around the Th...
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OPEKEPE, Predator and Ankara tension set tone for post-Easter politics
PoliticsGreek PoliticsA compressed, post‑Easter political week opens in Athens with the government facing simultaneous pressure on two domestic fronts - the OPEKEPE case files and the revived surveillance affair - while also navigating a sharp rhetorical clash with Ankara an...
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Unpaid taxes for September fall to 1.03 bln but up 56.5 pct so far this year
EconomyMacroeconomyindicators evolved within 2014. The first indicator relates to the target set by the Ministry of Finance (MoF) cfor legacy debt collections to reach 1 billion euros in the first half of 2014 and 2 billion..., and remain well below the annual targets. Those targets were set as a percentage of collections
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Greek PM offers no more incentives for presidential vote, braces for snap elections
![Photo by Myrto Papadopoulos [www.myrtopapadopoulos.com]](resources/toolip/img-thumb/2013/11/26/samaras_1000_myrto_2611-medium.jpg "Photo by Myrto Papadopoulos [www.myrtopapadopoulos.com]")
PoliticsGreek Politicsand a date for snap elections – most probably February 1 – will be set.... to Greek state TV channel NERIT on Saturday, Samaras repeated the concessions he had set out almost
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Newsletter 10 - 09/01/2015
, but the leftists still look set for a victory, albeit one that is likely to leave them needing... tax obligations for the month, including an estimated 1 billion for road tax, and instalments... an entirely different set of approaches to policy making from SYRIZA. The misplaced focus on Grexit
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