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No bounce for Tsipras in poll as cracks appear in centre-left
PoliticsGreek Politicson Friday, Tsipras announced that he had agreed with Greece’s lenders for the discount of up to 30... to take back migrants who have been registered on the Eurodac system but who end up at the German border illegally. In return, Berlin agreed to speed up the process of family reunifications for relatives
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BoG Monetary Policy Report positive on programme end but advises caution for future targets
EconomyBankingpercent. BoG anticipates Greek economic growth to pick up pace in the coming years, growing by 2 percent... and a marginal deficit of 0.1 percent of GDP in 2019. Prices will grow on average by 1 percent up to 2020... accelerate as banks have lined up various packages of loan sales. The deposit base is steadily
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A moment to reflect, not celebrate
Agoramakers tried to come up with ways to address a crisis they were woefully unprepared for, while... came up with solutions that were sufficient to protect their own countries from the effects... appears a meagre fig leaf to cover up for the inadequacies of their decisions. Meanwhile, foreign
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Central government debt rises to 345.38 billion in Q2
EconomyMacroeconomyin bonds, including both domestic and foreign-issued bonds. FSM loans continue to make up the lion’s... showed that T-bills made up 60.2 percent of all government borrowing, followed by ESM loans (27.5 percent... maturity showed that long-term (over 5 years) debt made up 76 percent of the total, while short-term
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SYRIZA readies itself for election battle, Mitsotakis pledges pension overhaul
PoliticsGreek PoliticsKyriakos Mitsotakis has been fleshing out his policies as Greece’s parties gear up for what... for the prime minister to freshen up his ministerial line-up and prepare his team for the long election... that have been lined up for next year after being demanded by the lenders. Several government officials
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Tsipras pledges array of tax cuts, hopes for break on pensions
PoliticsGreek Politicsincrease to the minimum wage. Most of these measures had been leaked to the media in the build-up... weeks. Reforms Tsipras talked up the economic recovery, underlining six consecutive quarters of growth... reductions of up to 50 percent. The reduction to the tax will happen in two stages. The first
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Greek leaders' contrasting visions all a blur
Agorathe government cozied up with big business and the media, allowing its friends to benefit from an artificial... rate of income tax for those with annual incomes up to 10,000 euros from 22 percent to 9 percent... responsibilities would diminish) and provide an immediate pick-me-up for the economy. There are doubts
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SYRIZA eyes gains from case developing against ex-defence minister
PoliticsGreek Politicsafter Akis Tsochatzopoulos to end up in jail. Tsochatzopoulos, recently released on grounds of ill... to separate its actions from those of its predecessors is designed to firm up the message to voters... major weaknesses going into the next elections. Despite his attempts to freshen up the conservatives
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Greece's never-ending election campaign
Agorato pick up the campaign trail. For many months prior to the bailout exit, SYRIZA’s strategy was based... old habits of sharing the wealth amongst the few, mostly those who cosy up to the ruling party... up the work carried out a by a cross-party parliamentary committee that investigated alleged
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General govt primary cash surplus at 5.21 bln in September, arrears fall by 411 mln
EconomyMacroeconomyof the figures showed that in the first nine months of the year, revenues edged up by 1.9 percent YoY... governments (+24 million euros). At just under 32 percent, arrears of SSFs made up the majority of arrears... billion to 21.21 billion, making up 6 percent of the total. In the year-to-date, repos have risen
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