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Car sales start 2023 with uptick of 54.6 pct
EconomyMacroeconomyat 18,218. The remainder was made up of lorries (2,781) and buses (130), both up by 39.2 and 88.4... by 90.7 percent and used passenger car sales also up by 19.1 percent. In the full year 2022, 205,130 road motor cars were sold. The 3.3 percent rise was led by passenger cars at 177,844, up by 6.8
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Survey highlights households struggling with cost of living, delivers worst outlook since 2019
EconomyThe effects of the cost-of-living crisis in Greece were summed up in another business association... in the country. There is an equal allocation in source of income, with wages taking up 44 pct... allocate more on utility bills, while 65 pct now spend more on food. Heating has also gone up for six
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PM hails uptake of food voucher scheme amid growing evidence of hardship
PoliticsGreek PoliticsNew Democracy continues to roll out support measures in the run-up to spring elections... of government initiatives to tackle the cost-of-living crisis. The scheme covers up to 10 pct of the amount... had been made since the online platform opened earlier this week. Up to 85 pct of the population
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Jan delivers most negative hiring balance since 2017
EconomyMacroeconomyof the total, with the remaining classed as layoffs and termination of contracts. Layoffs are up by 40,222 year-on-year, while voluntary exits were up by 9,915. Hires were up by 48,330 jobs compared... to 52 percent. Part-time and shift work made up 39 percent and 9 percent of hirings, respectively
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Does the EU Commission suffer from optimism bias? (Part 2)
Agora(!) in productivity growth. This “leveling up” assumption in productivity growth drives the optimistic EU real GDP...—governments have skin in the game to talk things up. The pressures are so high on Fund staff... the euphemistic phrase that “the risks are slanted to the downside,” that routinely shows up in the risk
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ND suffers ratings blow after train crash, hopes time is on its side
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor smaller parties, like radical left MERa25 (up from 2.7 to 3.5 pct) and ultra-nationalist Greek Solution (up from 3.6 to 3.9 pct) but the proportion of voters saying they would cast spoiled ballots also went up from 1.3 to 2.3 pct. The percentage of undecided voters remained stable at around 10 pct
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Mitsotakis sets May 21 election date, eyes opposition MPs as potential allies
PoliticsGreek Politicswill undoubtedly prove tense as fine margins could decided the make-up of the next administration. New Democracy has not given up on the possibility of gaining an outright majority in a second vote, but should that fall through it appears that Mitsotakis’s back-up plan is to explore the possibility
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Leaders set out priorities, survey suggests many voters open to coalition
PoliticsGreek Politicssubsidised electricity bills and, in the run-up to elections, stipends for grocery shopping. New Democracy... as a band-aid to cover up more serious, deeper financial problems for Greek households over the last... loan settlement schemes that could include the writedown of up to 60 pct of the debt and lead
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Judicial row erupts over election legislation as poll points to ND recovery
PoliticsGreek Politicslegislation. Nevertheless, New Democracy felt that it had to shore up the process that will lead to judges... not trust him. On Monday, Tzanerikos announced his resignation. Voridis insisted that it is up... main rival. Centre-left PASOK, in third place, is also up slightly, from 9.2 to 9.5 pct. Almost 10
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Move to block far-right fuels conflict between ND and SYRIZA
PoliticsGreek Politicsis designed with Ellines in mind as the party was set up and led by former Golden Dawn MP Ilias Kasidiaris... is unlikely to die down in the run-up to the elections as judge Christos Tzanerikos, who resigned from... in a follow-up ballot as the winning party will be awarded a bonus of up to 50 seats. However
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