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UN steers clear of Cyprus blame game as focus moves to hydrocarbons
PoliticsForeign Policysteps should be. Eide made this comment after briefing the UN Security Council for more than two hours... said there had been a collective failure in reaching an agreement rather than anything else. “We... intervention by the council that this process took Cyprus closer than ever before to a settlement
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Greece completes first bond issue in three years, eyes more on way out of programme
Economyeach, while Piraeus GGBs amounted to less than 400 million euros. The new bond coupon of 4.375 percent stands 0.325 percentage points lower than the respective coupon of 4.75 percent of the previous... with more than 550 orders from the investment community. Although the transactions are not fully
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Overdue social security contributions increase 827 mln to 23.3 bln at end of Q2
EconomyMacroeconomyto over 800,000 at the end of Q2, a rise of more than 182,000 QoQ. The breakdown shows that nearly three quarters of debtors owe less than 15,000 euros each for an aggregate amount of 2.17 billion... percent of total) owe more than 1 million each for a total amount of 6.53 billion. Though they represent
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Greek banks meet NPE reduction targets in Q2, write-offs remain primary source of reduction
EconomyBankingbillion lower than the target of 103.4 billion. The NPE ratio stood at 50.6 percent in Q2, slightly higher than the anticipated level of 50 percent. This was driven by a lower than expected volume of total loans which translated into a higher than expected NPE ratio. The NPE coverage ratio edged down
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The flag of permanent defeat
Agoraa day longer than Antonis Samaras (951 days), almost 200 more days than George Papandreou (766... cannot give a convincing interpretation regarding what the last 2.5 years have been about. Rather than... government in the world could be condemned for being more focussed on holding on to power rather than
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Birth rate rises by 1.1 pct in 2016 but remains under 100,000
Societyplace within a marriage with less than 9 percent taking place outside of wedlock, indicating... than girls were born (47,882 versus 45,016) in line with naturally occurring trends in societies... marriage rather than a religious ceremony, with 52 percent of couples choosing the former over the latter
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Trust in Greek banking system shaky, survey suggests
EconomyBankingabout these resources being channelled into the shadow economy rather than the real economy, where... of Greek banks, their only source of liquidity as they bled more than 40 billion euros in deposits... transfers or cash withdrawals. This pushed banknotes in circulation to more than 50 billion euros in July
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Overdue social security debt reaches 30.5 bln in Q3 on consolidation of debtors
EconomyMacroeconomy, with an increase of more than 385,000 quarter-on-quarter (QoQ). It is noted that the incorporation... shows that nearly three quarters of debtors owe less than 15,000 euros each for an aggregate amount..., an increase of more than 230,000 from the previous quarter. Around 11.3 percent of debtors owe
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Array of centre-left leadership candidates edge towards watershed vote
PoliticsGreek Politicsfocussed on personalities and procedures rather than on issues and policy agendas. Nine candidates... to emphasise the party’s historical character rather than articulate her own distinctive political... to be the key factor shaping the new political entity, procedures matter to a greater extent than they would
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PASOK emerges victorious from first round of centre-left leadership vote
PoliticsGreek Politicsformer PASOK ministers, gained less than 10 percent combined. The result means that Gennimata.... Theodorakis had stated during the campaign that anything less than 200,000 would be a failure. The fact... 2015 and substantially lower (334,752) than those who cast ballots in the second round in January
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