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Trade deficit rises by 11.5 pct YoY in Oct, 10M deficit at 28.32 bln
EconomyMacroeconomyproducts and ships, the aggregate deficit was up by 7.7 percent, at 22.84 billion euros. Imports from EU countries were up by 3 percent to 35.64 billion euros, while imports from non-EU markets were also up by 0.5 percent at 34.55 billion euros. Exports to EU countries decreased 7.1 percent to 23.06
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Bank tax proposal spearheads PASOK attack on government's economic policy
Economyit up from the debt crisis legacies. During the first half of the debt crisis, the Greek state pumped 40 billion euros into restructuring the banking sector, cleaning up banks to merge with the existing... - deferred tax credits - that would be amortised against profits with a rate of 29 pct up to 2040
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Solid Oct for travel receipts takes 10M figure to new record of 20.94 bln
EconomyMacroeconomyto 1.82 billion euros in 2023, up 19.7 percent year-on-year. Travel payments rose by 29.2 percent to 234.8 million euros. The number of arrivals in October reached 3.41 million, up 8.6 percent. Arrivals... per trip was stable up by 10.7 percent to 573.1 euros from 517.8 euros in 2023. For the ten months
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Trade deficit jumps 18.7 pct YoY in Nov, 11M deficit at 31.51 bln
EconomyMacroeconomyproducts and ships, the aggregate deficit was up by 7.5 percent, at 25.18 billion euros. Imports from EU countries were up by 2.9 percent to 39.45 billion euros, while imports from non-EU markets were also up by 0.8 percent at 37.93 billion euros. Exports to EU countries decreased 6.6 percent to 25.33
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Health insurance costs and energy bills provide new avenue for opposition attacks
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe opposition has stirred up a debate about rising insurance costs. On Tuesday, PASOK tabled an amendment which... to go up by as much as 15 percent in the coming year. PASOK has called the rises, which affect over... snap drove up demand. PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis wrote to European Commission President Ursula von der
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Despite lower spend per trip, record arrivals push travel balance to 18.77 bln in 11M
EconomyMacroeconomy, compared to 426.9 million euros in 2023, up 44.7 percent year-on-year. Travel payments rose by just 0.5 percent to 198 million euros. The number of arrivals in November reached 1.28 million, up 23.6... per trip was up by almost 21 percent to 438.2 euros from 362.4 euros in 2023. For the eleven months
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Opposition parties bring Tempe issue back to Parliament after mass protests
PoliticsGreek PoliticsMitsotakis is prepared to stand up and be counted. Marinakis stuck to the government’s main line of defence... in a cover up. As a result, Mitsotakis can expect to face questions over the circumstances of the crash... up the pressure on the Mitsotakis administration, he accused the broadcaster of intentionally playing
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Under pressure from public opinion, Mitsotakis concedes mistakes on Tempe
PoliticsGreek Politicscover-up, stating that he did not believe it to have been “Parliament’s finest hour”. The government... him from justice. Triantopoulos oversaw the clean-up operations at the crash site, which the families described as an attempt at a cover-up after critical evidence was found to have been disturbed
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U.S. and China are still in reconnaissance mode, but for how long?
Agoracomes up with grandiloquent statements, versus a buttoned-up Xi Jinping who never veers away from his.... The Chinese supremo did not turn up, but his deputy Han Zheng served as an envoy for him, the first...% tariff, not as steep as the menacing “up to 60%” Trump spoke about while on the election trail
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Government hopes new train footage helps stem support for parties on political extremes
PoliticsGreek Politicsand that this liquid caused the fire that broke out after the crash, leading to up to 30 of the 57 victims... has been involved in a cover up in the comments he made after the video of the freight train... trying to cover up from the start what really happened in Tempe or that it discovered during
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