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The risk of losing control before help arrives
Agoraa formidable challenge and subject to daily introspection. The fall wave of infections that began... as much as possible during the Christmas festivities and New Year period. In a word, hang on and keep
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Newsletter 89 - 23/09/2016
A question of survival Tsipras seeks to distance himself from potential TV licensing debacle Prime... the apparently full-of-holes TV licence procedure, as well as a clash with Bank of Greece governor Yannis... to a lack of proper financial checks on the four successful bidders in the TV permit auction
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Opposition parties continue to pursue wiretap claims, as surveillance bill passes first hurdle
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe intelligence service EYP to the operation of the Predator spyware via a government contractor... from invoices and bank statements pertaining to the activities of EYP contractor Krikel, which..., transactions totalling 5.3 million euros linked to the government contractor appear to have escaped
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General govt primary cash surplus at 5.34 bln in nine-month, sharp fall in arrears
EconomyMacroeconomyof the figures showed that revenues declined by 1.20 billion to 55.99 billion euros. A 39 percent fall in transfers was the main factor behind the fall, as this category went from 4.86 billion last year... to 55.17 billion. This was driven by a combination of a fall in transfers (-597 million), social
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Greek pensions laid bare
Agorapensions amounts to 884 euros. Note, though, that for around 45 percent of pensioners their monthly... and they receive on average monthly pensions of 771 euros. This is below the overall average of 884 euros since
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Labour cost fall has not produced jobs, bemoans GSEE in study
SocietyThe significant fall in labour costs since the onset of the crisis has not led to a corresponding fall in prices and a boost in employment and competitiveness, defying conventional theories..., the report said. The INE maintains that the gains made by companies from the fall in labour costs has
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Eurosystem funding drops by 5.1 bln in Aug driven by ELA fall
EconomyMacroeconomyis the lowest reading since June 2014. The monthly movement is driven mostly by a fall in Emergency Liquidity... basis, Eurosystem funding dropped by 21.32 billion euros, driven mainly by a fall in ELA funding... programme was agreed, with the majority of this fall (55.91 billion) originating from lower reliance on ELA
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Fall in apartment prices continues with slower decline of 0.6 pct in Q3
EconomyMacroeconomyin Q3 following a 0.3 percent quarter-on-quarter fall in Q2 2017. Old apartments, classified as over five years old, saw their prices fall by 0.7 percent in Q3. Properties up to five years old saw price... annual fall was posted in 2012 (-11.7 percent), followed by another double-digit drop of -10.9
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Piraeus Bank posts net loss of 19 mln euros in Q3, NPEs continue to fall
EconomyBankingthat in line with targets, the parent NPL stock is anticipated to fall by 50 percent by 2019 versus September..., where the figure stood at 10 billion, driven largely by a 1.8 billion fall in Emergency Liquidity... and a more active interbank repo market. In the year to date up to mid-November, the fall in Eurosystem
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General govt primary cash surplus at 5.21 bln in September, arrears fall by 411 mln
EconomyMacroeconomy. The biggest fall came from tax refunds which decreased by 363 million in September to come to 699... a marginal fall of 5 million to 51.54 billion, representing 14.5 percent of the total. Repos dropped by 1.57.... The main driver behind the fall was a 898 million-euro decline in Emergency Liquidity Assistance (ELA
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