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Final 2026 budget foresees stable growth and strong tax performance
EconomyMacroeconomy, investments were expected to grow by 8.4 percent - an estimate that never materialised. Exports growth... of relief measures during 2025, outside the original budget submission. The public debt composition..., from 9.15 billion in 2025. Interest payments are estimated at 3 percent of GDP, or 7.71 billion
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Newsletter 506 - 29/05/2026
and a post-crisis normalization. However, this growth has come at a cost as IMF staff estimate.... The issue was settled mid-year and permits have been growing since May 2025. During the first two... in the property market. An estimated 35% of Greece’s housing stock is currently not used as a primary
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Newsletter 21 - 27/03/2015
surplus target for this year. According to Kathimerini daily, Finance Ministry sources estimate... ND and PASOK in tactical bind After a period during which they were suffering a post-election... of breach of faith is likely to have been seen as an affront by most Greeks. It has to be said that during
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Greek QE eligibility? We're not there yet
Agorafunding. Draghi confirmed that the ECB insisted during the last Eurogroup on August 14 that any bail... should be met. The first is that “during reviews in the context of financial assistance programmes... and calculations, we estimate that the maximum amount of GGBs that the ECB could purchase up to the 33 percent
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Fiscal dispute dominates as Greece and lenders gear up for more talks
EconomyProgrammefrom the 2 percentage points difference between its estimate for a primary surplus of 1.5 percent... for the 2019-20 period. During a regular press briefing last Thursday, the IMF spokesman Gerry Rice stressed.... Debt relief Meanwhile, speaking in Parliament on December 9 during the discussion of the 2017
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Banks saw asset quality and liquidity trends improve in Q4 but process interrupted in 2017
Agorabanks stressed that the positive asset quality and liquidity developments during the last quarter... banks during 2016. Of this, almost 5.3 billion was recorded in the last quarter of the year, also... lending NII on loan deleveraging and spread compression. For 2017, banks estimate NII to stay almost
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Newsletter 117 - 05/05/2017
for 2017 and 2018. Moreover, the rating agency lowered its GDP growth estimate to 1.5 percent (from 1.8... of the deal. During his press briefing on Tuesday, government spokesman Dimitris Tzanakopoulos made a point... an official visit to China. During a live TV appearance on Wednesday, conservative leader Kyriakos
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OECD highlights reforms and imbalances that need to be addressed
EconomyMacroeconomyon Greece, which was also accompanied by a visit to Athens by Secretary General Angel Gurria during... in 2019, below the Greek government estimate of 2.3 percent for this year and 2.6 percent for next year... loans and the lifting of capital controls that will further boost confidence. In his comments during
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Fourth review talks conclude with fiscal differences remaining
EconomyProgrammeduring the week did not bridge the views on the fiscal outlook for next year, with the institutions... entry rate to 9 from 22 percent. The Greek ministry has been arguing during the talks that the direct... conservative view, in line with the European Commission’s current estimate of 2.2 percent growth
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Despite differing views IMF and EC see no immediate debt sustainability concerns
EconomyProgrammeon Wednesday. The IMF used to be the gatekeeper and the ultimate authority in assessing Greece’s debt during... of. Diverging views on the topic have kept the Fund on the sidelines during the third and final programme... and out of the 10.5 percentage points rise in the debt-to-GDP compared to March estimate, 2.5
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