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Coalition turns focus to bribery claims, eyes damage to opposition
PoliticsGreek Politicsministers and eight ex-ministers (New Democracy and PASOK) have cropped up in an investigation... action against his accusers. This has not stopped the government talking up the importance... Pikrammenos has also cropped up in the list of alleged suspects. It should be noted that Pikrammenos
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Newsletter 150 -26/01/2018
up in the list of alleged suspects despite the fact that he only served in office between the May.... Parliament now has to decide whether to set up a preliminary inquiry, whose task it will be to decide whether... billion euros in the in the full year of 2017, up by 1.07 billion compared to the same time last year
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Tsipras confirms Parliament will probe contentious Novartis bribery claims
PoliticsGreek Politicsto Parliament once the names of politicians cropped up in the probe. All those implicated have denied... will not do what the Samaras-Venizelos government did, when it gave up its right to seek compensation... up a preliminary judicial investigation in Parliament means that the claim and counter-claim
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Fitch upgrades Greek rating to 'B,' sees hybrid MoU exit and 2.1 pct growth this year
Economyup to 2020 that have been legislated upfront, the ratings agency argued. The completion of the third... to resume building up new arrears to the private sector, it adds. Fitch expects the fourth review... export driven as private consumption will decline. Pent-up investment demand, increased employment
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Travel balance down by 76.3 pct in Dec, annual arrivals beat expectations
EconomyMacroeconomyfrom the US went up by 11.1 percent, while a 1.1 percent fall in visitors from Russia was noted... German visitors increased by 31.5 percent. Revenues from French visitors were up by 17.3 percent... rose by 5.3 percent in December, pushing the aggregate figure up by 8.6 percent to 18.3 million
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Parliamentary inquiry to handle bribery claims as parties build differing narratives
PoliticsGreek PoliticsA debate lasting more than 20 hours ended early on Thursday with Parliament voting to set up... treatment. The committee will be made up of 21 members (10 from SYRIZA and one from junior coalition... with the decision to set up 10 ballot boxes (one for each accused) rather than one. Tsipras also gave a fairly
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Greek health care spending in the spotlight
EconomyFeatures) in 2009, an increase of over 53 percent. Spending on pharmaceuticals per person shot up... to 8.9 percent of GDP, while spending on drugs went up by just 29 percent over the same time frame... degraded unless there is a radical shake-up of health care priorities. While the political mood seems
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Retail sales rise by 2.2 pct in December, average growth of 1.7 pct in 2017
EconomyMacroeconomy. Retail trade picked up to a positive reading of 2.8, representing an improvement of 1 point... and retail trade confidence picked up to 1.8 points. During 2017, retail trade deteriorated by 10.2... on a high, with turnover over the Christmas period seen picking up by 2.5 percent compared to last year
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Newsletter 154 -9/03/2018
and whether the reduction of the tax-free threshold lined up for 2020 will have to be brought forward... came to 1.98 bln in January, up by 621 million compared to the same time last year. The largest... percent. GDP up by 0.1 pct in Q4 Headline figure remains positive, although marks slowest quarter
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Budget primary surplus at 2.75 bln in Feb on increased revenues, lower expenditure
EconomyMacroeconomy, up by 28.9 percent against last year’s figure of 2.14 billion euros, the Finance Ministry (MoF... billion euros, up substantially against the balance for the same time last year (434 million... bulletin due on March 26. Privatisation proceeds in the aggregate period came to 4 million euros, up by 1
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