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  1. Economic sentiment at 98.3 pts in October, consumer confidence drops -0.3 pts
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    represents a drop of 2.3 points in the overall index month-on-month. ESI has been improving since May..., ESI has improved by 3.2 points since January and 5.1 points since May. Consumer confidence declined... points in October. On a year-to-date basis, the index has gained 13.8 points, having recovered from

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  2. Tsipras eyes review conclusion, insists SYRIZA patience will pay off
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    suggested that the opposition party has yet to realise that the government is well on the way to achieving... and that it will be distributed among low-income social groups, as the government has promised. Further details were not provided... during the meeting although this was later denied by ministry sources. Mouzalas has long been

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  3. Greece and Albania hold private talks to tackle longstanding differences
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    for the delineation of the Exclusive Economic Zone; an issue which has been pending from 2009. Since January... of war that has existed between the two countries since the Second World War. Athens, meanwhile, does not recognise the issue of the Cham community, which Albania has been raising since the 1990s

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  4. Gennimata aims to secure centre-left leadership in run-off vote
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    party’s leadership ballot in January 2016. The campaigning since last Sunday’s vote has been... notion that her political career has been driven by the fact that her late father was a PASOK... the party has helped her campaign with PASOK’s traditional, older supporters. It remains to be seen

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  5. Broad support in Parliament for handouts amid mixed signals from polls
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    . Conservative leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis has argued that any excess surplus should be used to reduce taxes, particularly the ENFIA property levy, which he has promised to reduce by 30 percent in his... move indicated in the University of Macedonia poll has not translated into a dip in SYRIZA’s rating

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  6. Slight uptick for economic sentiment and consumer confidence in November
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    ) figures revealed on Monday. Between December last year and this November, the ESI print has... at 92.9. Since then sentiment has improved by 5.5 points. Consumer confidence also improved by 0.2...-to-date basis, confidence has improved by 10.6 points, having recovered from declines in January through

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  7. SYRIZA in tight spot over strikes but poll deficit still closing
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    the opposition parties, unions and activists. The coalition has come under attack for agreeing to change the law... that the quorum needed for these organisations to launch protest action has to be at least half... in Athens on Tuesday, this has also created some concern within SYRIZA. Only a few months ago

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  8. The republic without a government
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    predictability like no other in the European Union? Seeking answers to this formidable challenge has... Coalition between the Conservatives and Social Democrats, SPD). Such a political arrangement has... of such unease, a new model, under the term KoKo, has been introduced, primarily by the SPD. It seeks

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  9. Athens hits back over EU's refugee criticism, but domestic gripes more of a concern
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    that this was an effect of the recent increase in the number of arrivals. “The state has no magic wand to respond... that is not the state’s fault.” The government has been installing dozens of converted containers... and become permanent features, means the process has been moving slowly. Authorities have also been

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  10. Busy January ahead for coalition, which rebuffs accusations over Turkish airmen
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    , regaining along the way some of the support it has lost over the last couple of years.... For instance, a difference of opinion has emerged between SYRIZA and its coalition partner, Independent...) regarding the longstanding name dispute between the two countries. ANEL leader Panos Kammenos has

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