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  1. Final budget sees strong growth, fiscal overperformance in 2018
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    The Finance Ministry tabled in Parliament on Tuesday evening the final version of the 2018 budget... handed over to the parliamentary speaker on Tuesday by Alternate Finance Minister Giorgos Houliarakis.... Athens now sees 2017 growth settling at 1.6 percent, well below the initial estimate. The Finance

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  2. Newsletter 184 -23/11/2018

    Newsletters

    of the reforms it pledged. The budget, tabled in Parliament by Alternate Finance Minister Giorgos Houliarakis... the expansionary counter-measures that had been agreed at the time as well. Instead, the Finance... fiscal space of 885 million euros that the Finance Ministry intends to disburse in the form

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  3. Eurogroup marks end of cycle and squaring of circle for Greece
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    Agora

    when the finance minister of the newly elected Greek government at the time, Giorgos Papaconstantinou... the country’s existence outside of adjustment programmes. Eurozone finance ministers are called upon..., the then German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble led a colourful debate (according to leaked notes

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  4. Credit origination and transmission: Are Greek banks part of the problem or the solution?
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    Agora

    the Troika, the Ministry of Finance and the domestic lenders. As NPL formation continues to increase..., the Bank of Greece and the Ministry of Finance.[2] The internal bad bank model for Greek institutions.... The challenge Greek SMEs face in finding access to finance will continue to make the search for feasible

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  5. Newsletter 4 - 21/11/2014

    Newsletters

    Please mind the fiscal gap Differences likely due to qualitative approach taken by the Finance... taxes in up to 100 instalments. The Finance Ministry believes the payment plan could have a positive... taken by the Finance Ministry, which anticipates that the fiscal targets next year will be met

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  6. Newsletter 15 - 13/02/2015

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    to agree on a way forward after faltering efforts this week. Wednesday’s gathering of eurozone finance... mechanism will be more complicated. The German Finance Ministry, for instance, made it clear on Friday... corruption. Liquidity remains a vital factor Finance ministry data shows January tax revenues fell

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  7. Varoufakis and his friendly fire

    Agora

    talkative former Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis to reveal that he had been working on establishing... days ahead of being elected to power on January 25, Tsipras asked the would-be finance minister... in IT to “surreptitiously” clone the Finance Ministry’s tax system, which would involve hacking

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  8. Newsletter 70 - 15/04/2016

    Newsletters

    Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos, Labour The new tax-free threshold of €9,091 euros is a government... 25 or 26. The Finance Minister confirmed that the anticipated fiscal gap of 3 percent of GDP by 2018.... The Finance Minister underlined that the new tax-free threshold of 9,091 euros is a red line

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  9. Mangling the truth

    Agora

    regarding the Bundestag’s finance committee meeting on Wednesday to give its verdict on whether Greece... in Greece and a variety of stories claimed that German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble was attempting to bypass the Bundestag and get the all clear from the finance committee rather than put the matter

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  10. How 'clean' can an exit be? Athens snared between Rome and Berlin
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    Agora

    relief proposals for Greece. But the new German finance minister appears to have a rather different... to stipulate that Schäuble’s spirit lingers on in the corridors and offices of the SPD-led finance.... The German finance minister said “Nein.” In Scholz’ view three years are enough. The second issues concerns

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