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Import prices fall sharply by 12.7 pct in Mar, as energy drops by 28.4 pct
EconomyMacroeconomyThe contraction of Greece’s import price index accelerated in March, falling by 12.7 percent year... Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) on Monday. February’s reading was the first negative print since... in the previous month. The index now has five consecutive monthly contractions. The index’s 12-month rolling
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Tsipras identifies failings, tries to rally SYRIZA as Androulakis attempts to tread own path
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAlexis Tsipras went public on Thursday about his thoughts on the left-wing party’s disastrous... that Kyriakos Mitsotakis is a few seats short of a majority on June 25. Speaking to SYRIZA’s central... that missteps by SYRIZA officials on the campaign trail had made the centre-right party’s task easier
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Mitsotakis sticks with stability mantra as SYRIZA looks for new approach
PoliticsGreek Politicsan interview to Kathimerini newspaper and Mega TV over the weekend, ahead of launching ND’s new election... party in its bid to overtake SYRIZA. A third, less significant, threat to ND’s result... weeks to build on New Democracy’s impressive showing in the first election, SYRIZA still seems
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Opinion poll offers Mitsotakis encouragement in quest for majority
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDemocracy leader would clearly not agree to this, Tsipras’s challenge appears an attempt to limit damage inflicted on the credibility of the party’s economic programme during the last campaign, when New Democracy’s spokesman Akis Skertsos claimed that GAO figures suggested that SYRIZA’s proposals
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SYRIZA attempts election reboot through new manifesto
PoliticsGreek Politicsto grow the Greek economy. Having acknowledged that the disappointing performance at last month’s... of Greece’s painful economic adjustment programme, per capita income stands at 59 percent of the European... the elections. The party’s chief spokesman Akis Skertsos said Tsipras changed the substance
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Fitch takes no rating action as fiscal continuity remains crucial to investment grade
EconomyMacroeconomyFitch took no action on Friday regarding Greece’s rating, re-affirming the country’s ‘BB+’ and keeping the outlook stable. Buoyed by New Democracy’s landslide win in the June 25 elections, some...), Moody’s has Greece at ‘Ba3’, three notches from investment grade. Fitch did revise up the outlook
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Alexis Tsipras, Nanni Moretti and the future of the Greek Left
Agoraleftist Prime Minister in one of the most turbulent periods since Greece’s democratic transition in 1974... of renegotiating Greece’s debt and the related austerity obligations, he signed a third package of severe... after his election to the government. Similarly, Tsipras’s government extended the right for civil
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Candidates start lining up for imminent SYRIZA leadership ballot
PoliticsGreek Politics. However, at a meeting of the party’s political secretariat on Monday it was decided to stick... under its new president. The final decision, though, rests with the left-wing grouping’s central... In the meantime, SYRIZA is raising objections to the government’s plan to remove barriers to Greeks
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PM takes central role as fires continue to rage
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is trying to put himself front and centre in the government’s... party’s rivals to attempt to make any immediate political gains. However, the issue of wildfires is also... behind the current government’s strategy of ordering evacuations as early as possible
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Import prices fall for fifth straight month in June as energy drops by 38 pct
EconomyMacroeconomyThe contraction of Greece’s import price index continued in June, falling by 19.4 percent year... with growth sliding since. That said, due to last year’s unprecedented rises, this year’s numbers have..., the index posted a rise of 0.5 percent, from a drop of 3.5 percent in the previous month. June’s rise
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