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In tight election race, rare TV debate carries element of unknown
PoliticsGreek Politicsopportunity for New Democracy leader Evangelos Meimarakis to match up against SYRIZA’s Alexis Tsipras... New Democracy’s leadership since his predecessor Antonis Samaras stood down on July 5... in reviving his party’s fortunes over the last few weeks. Wednesday night will also be the first time that ex
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Election Watch: 24 parties and coalitions apply to contest election
AgoraGreece’s Supreme Court has received a total of 24 applications from political entities – including... mushroomed as the state’s broadcasting monopoly fell apart. He built up a cult following among nocturnal TV... at the call-in pranksters, a serial problem that bedevilled his show, or for the host’s frequent
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Tsipras seeks fair exchange with EU over migrant crisis
PoliticsGreek Politicsof SYRIZA’s negotiations with the eurozone over the last few months and is seen by the Greek government as one of the leaders advocating a progressive social agenda within the EU. Faymann’s visit took place... on Sunday. The refugee crisis has left Tsipras’s government trying to balance its own
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Average wealth in Greece down by 17.1 pct since last year
Societyand Portugal. Greece’s wealth per adult in mid-2015 was 36.7 percent lower than the European average figure... a share of 47.2 percent of adults and 53.6 percent of wealth in 2015. The country’s total wealth stood at 743 billion dollars in mid-2015, showing a drop by 151 million dollars over the previous year’s
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Growing hopes that Greek recession will be milder than expected
EconomyThe Greek government as well as local banks and economic think-tanks are hopeful that this year’s recession will be milder than the country’s lenders expectations in mid-August. In a positive... on Wednesday - after the first day of discussions with the quadriga’s mission chiefs in Athens
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New Democracy bewildered by ballot failure as Tsipras solicits consensus
PoliticsGreek PoliticsNew Democracy’s electoral committee is due to meet at 1 p.m. on Monday to decide what action... the ballot in the coming weeks, probably using a different IT company after Sunday’s fiasco, or to hold... the past few weeks and Sunday’s failure. What this also means is that the government will continue
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Budget execution improves significantly in Oct, primary surplus reaches 4.53 bln
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece’s budget primary balance displayed a surplus of 1.46 billion euros in October from a deficit..., up by almost 71 percent compared to last year’s figure. In addition, the year to date balance... million, two-thirds lower than last year’s figure of 2.45 billion euros, and 2.09 billion better than
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Meimarakis and Mitsotakis make it into run-off vote for New Democracy leadership
PoliticsGreek PoliticsNew Democracy’s ex-interim leader Evangelos Meimarakis and former administrative reform minister... the number of voters beat expectations, it is around half the number that voted in New Democracy’s... ton Syntakton daily on Friday, for instance, showed SYRIZA’s support plummeting to 20 percent
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Pension overhaul poses political challenge despite avoiding immediate cuts
PoliticsGreek Politicsof any government but following Monday’s meeting between party leader Fofi Gennimata and Labour... is unpopular with businesses but is also seen as a way of shifting the burden for the pension system’s... to young Greeks and could also damage economic growth prospects. Another way in which the government’s
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Gov't hits back as pension reform row heats up
EconomyProgrammefigures, the prime minister’s office issued a non-paper on Wednesday addressing the arguments made... of the government’s unofficial statement: 1) Any comparison of the new pension levels with those included in previous legislation (law 3863/2010) is misleading since that law’s provisions were never implemented
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