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Parliament's budget office sees risks and rewards in third bailout
EconomyMacroeconomyThe elimination of uncertainty related to economic policy and the implementation of reforms and privatisations is a key condition for faster and sustainable economic recovery, the quarterly report of the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) stresses. The issues that have emerged from
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Parliament's budget office highlights economic challenges beyond bailout
EconomyMacroeconomyThe economic challenges that Greece faces should it conclude the first bailout review with the institutions are outlined in the latest quarterly report of the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO). The report notes that based on the latest available information, the negotiations with the institutions
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Parliament's budget office sees risks to economic recovery
EconomyMacroeconomyIn its latest quarterly report, the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) calls for swift and consistent implementation of the third bailout programme since it concludes there is no alternative route to economic growth. On the labour market reforms that are part of the second programme review
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Greek 2017 budget reveals size and source of extra tax burden
AgoraThe 2017 budget tabled in Parliament on Monday revealed that the bulk of the estimated incremental fiscal performance in 2017 will stem from additional revenues since 2.45 billion of the 2.6 billion in total interventions will be on the revenue side. The Finance Ministry forecasts that five revenue
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Athens launches drive to pre-pay part of IMF loan, bringing budget benefits
EconomyProgramme, which carries an interest of 4.9 percent and the prepayment will save the budget approximately 70
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Budget debate begins as poll highlights opposition's weakness
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe debate over next year’s budget began in Parliament on Wednesday, ahead of this Sunday’s vote. Although the government is coming under attack over the cost of living and taxation, this political pressure is still not translating into any substantial shift in public opinion. Finance Minister
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Honey, I shrunk the Greeks vol. 2
Agoraon economic activity, hits the budget and so on and so forth. It is the same cycle that has been repeated... claims, you end up with a “subordination risk” where private money is seen as being inferior
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New Year reshuffle brings more MPs into cabinet, keeps key ministers in post
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe deputy agriculture minister. Interior Minister Takis Thedorikakos has also been left out of the new... Petsas has been appointed Alternate Interior Minister, to be replaced by Christos Tarantilis... to the right” and “a party-political balancing act”. The elevation to the Interior Ministry of Makis Voridis
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University bill threatens PASOK consensus as probes launched into alleged infractions by politicians
PoliticsGreek Politicsinvestigation in the Interior Ministry, which is the suspected source of the data leak, while on Tuesday.... The Interior Ministry has denied that it provides voters’ contact information, while the chief...’s EP elections, but also because the suspicions of a data leak emerged within days of the Interior
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The case of SYRIZA's fiscal performance
AgoraThis blog is about the Greek general government overall budget balance since 2013 (after the most... for the following reason: we recommend that Greece follow (roughly) a balanced budget objective. Then a gradual..., in euros, would stay constant—consistent with a balanced budget that requires that existing debt
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