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A misstep away from absurdity
Agorasoonbecause he slipped up in an interview. That his position is in peril for a verbal faux pas when... in the build up to the crucial EU–Turkey summit at the end of the week. It’s not clear exactly how... neighbouring country as “Macedonia” four times. For his sins, Mouzalas only slipped up once at the start
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Calls for snap polls, parliamentary probes set tone for polarised politics
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDemocracy boost its ratings and damage SYRIZA’s further. Bringing up the possibility of snap polls... having rising debts. He also announced plans to set up a panel of experts to assess the out... into the bank loans if the government also agreed to set up a committee to look into the imposition
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Asking Greece to stack more austerity measures ignores past failings
Agorawill need to implement 3 percent of GDP, more than 5 billion euros, in further austerity measures up... was a good year for Greece. The economy appeared to be bottoming out and in the run up to the European... up the starting point of Greece’s fiscal effort by an extra 3 percent of GDP. Based
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Hopes of swift deal on contingent measures doused by technical, political complications
PoliticsGreek Politicsto review the budget execution and flag up any deviation, prompting corrective action. An automatic... Level Agreement with lenders could be speeded up. Given the complications and delays that have... for their implementation) this opens up the possibility of further friction within the two-party
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General gov't primary cash surplus widens to 3.2 bln in March, arrears jump to 6.7 bln
EconomyMacroeconomyat the high end at 2.88 billion (+111 million year to date), making up 43 percent of total arrears. Hospitals follow at 1.15 billion, up 215 million in Q1, corresponding to 17 percent of total arrears... of outstanding debt shows EFSF/ESM/IMF loans stood at 219 billion making up 68.2 percent of total debt
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Greek tourism: Hopeful yet uncertain for 2016
EconomyFeaturesof Greece, up from 46 percent in January, while 55 percent of British tourists concurred with the statement, up from 39 percent in January. In Greece’s favour, some 80 percent of those surveyed... for international air arrivals at Greece’s main airports up to March 2016 showed an 8.2 percent increase
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Reshuffle speculation mounts as offshore law sparks new political row
PoliticsGreek Politicsin 2003, participation in such a company was punishable with up to two years in prison. New Democracy... the technical details of the government’s rebuttal. The failure on the coalition’s behalf to flag this up... to clean up domestic politics. Reshuffle? It is unlikely that this issue will become anything more than
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Coalition wants next review to be swift despite labour reform complications
PoliticsGreek Politicsrather than three months. “The second review is coming up in autumn." Tsipras made reference... expressed his wish that the next assessment by the institutions should be wrapped up quickly... been tasked by Athens and the International Labour Organisation (ILO) to come up with proposals
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New tax arrears climb by 1.25 bln in May, total stock rises to 89 bln
Economydisplay new unpaid taxes jumped to 5.58 billion so far this year, up by 6.7 percent from... to individual and other corporate taxpayers. Summing up legacy and new tax arrears, the total stock of tax debt reached almost 89 billion euros at the end of May, up by 1 billion from the end-April figure
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Net job hirings hit 33,608 in June, highest since 2001
EconomyMacroeconomyin June 2016, up by 25,018 compared to the corresponding period last year, the Labour Ministry’s... net hirings making up more than three quarters of the total monthly figure. The biggest share.... The aggregate figures for the first half of the year showed net hirings of 234,664, up by 31,541 from
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