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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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Newsletter 155 -16/03/2018
when Athens and its lenders will be looking to wrap up the third programme at the end of June... for the month showed that ELA funding made up around 59.9 percent of the total liquidity. The BoG figures... Production Index (IPI) declined by 1.7 percent in January after December’s growth was revised up
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Green light for next bailout funds as Commission stands ground on post-MoU scenarios
EconomyProgrammeand at the same time as the pension cuts lined up for next year, without the implementation of any... and that it is up to the IMF to decide whether this will be enough for it to join the programme... view that a precautionary credit line would not be needed if Greece builds up a cash buffer
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Greece's immediate focus on prior actions and growth plan
EconomyProgrammeand the submission of the new growth plan to the institutions. Both issues are high up on the agenda... in the Thessaloniki Port Authority (OLTH) is due to officially take up the reins following a handover.... The consortiums that have submitted bids are made up of Snam (Italy), Fluxys (Belgium) and Enagas (Spain
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Budget primary surplus confirmed at 2.75 bln in February
EconomyMacroeconomyof 2018, up by 28.9 percent against last year’s figure of 2.14 billion euros, the Finance Ministry... billion euros, up substantially against the balance for the same time last year (434 million... to 4 million euros, up by 1 million against January’s figure, and below target by 4 million euros
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Job hirings outpace departures by 55,494 in March
EconomyMacroeconomypercent were layoffs. Full-time hirings edged up to 48.9 percent of the total. Part-time and shift work made up 38.6 percent and 12.4 percent of hirings in March, respectively. For the first three... remained in favour of part time and flexible work, which made up 53.3 percent of the total.
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