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Trade deficit soared 27.4 pct in Sept, down 13.6 pct for year
EconomyMacroeconomyindicated the C/A surplus to September [Link to C/A post on November 19] (excluding the one-off income
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Percentage of people in Greece at risk of poverty rises, tops EU list
SocietyThe percentage of people living in Greece who are at risk of poverty rose substantially last year and almost a quarter of the country's population now falls into that category, which is the highest proportion in the European Union. Understandably, the plight of the worst off in Greece often grabs
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Resignation of PM's aide poses grave questions for coalition, institutions
PoliticsGreek Politicssuggesting that he had made up what he told Kasidiaris to get Golden Dawn off his back after they began
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Electricity strike nipped in bud, leaving political loose ends
PoliticsGreek Politicsto the passing of a law allowing the sale of PPC spin-off being one of the prior actions Greece has
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Samaras buys some time with request for confidence vote
PoliticsGreek Politicsa censure motion. It also takes some of the edge off the opposition's constant calls for snap elections
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Wealth in Greece plunged by 170 bln since 2007, report finds
Societyof working off the imbalances that led to the crisis in order to regain competitiveness and better
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Wealth inequality in Greece has grown at faster rate than eurozone peers during crisis
Societyis now better off than it was in 2000, before Greece joined the euro. In that year the richest tenth
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Central gov't cash surplus rises to €3 bln in October despite drop in revenues
EconomyMacroeconomy-off item, the underlying BoG figure shows a drop of 2.4 percent to 37.08 billion. Compared
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Target revisions leave 880 mln budget shortfall in Oct despite 2.6 bln primary surplus
Economy. The preliminary figures had indicated the primary surplus was just 44 million off target
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Samaras, Venizelos opt for earlier presidential vote in high-risk strategy to save coalition
PoliticsGreek Politicsnominee. It is highly unlikely that there will be an en masse move of these MPs to the government’s side but the coalition may be able to pick some of them off. New Democracy and PASOK have 155
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