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  1. A marriage of inconvenience
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    Agora

    , Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. When Kostas Karamanlis attended the Istanbul nuptials more than... to go further than the customary unauthorised overflights in its attempts to rattle Athens... reportedly would have only allowed the plane to enter their air space if it stopped in Bodrum rather than

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  2. Newsletter 64 - 26/02/2016

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    of the year, more than 110,000 refugees and migrants Almost 110,000 migrants have entered Greece from... of farmers paying less in tax and contributions than is now the case. Τhe IMF confirmed on Tuesday... of this compassion is the underlying psychological connection. It is less than 100 years ago that Greeks from

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  3. Budget primary surplus jumps to 1.19 bln in Jan, largely on rising PIB revenues

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    year and 876 million better than the target. Revenues Revenues (before tax refunds) grew by 2.3... in January, 86 million better than the target and mitigated the underperformance of tax revenues. Meanwhile, tax refunds declined by 16.9 percent to 296 million, 50 million lower than target

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  4. Healthy eating and smoking on decline in Greece over last five years

    Society

    Greeks ate vegetables and fruit, smoked cigarettes and drank less frequently in 2014 than five... was greater for men (14.6 percent) than women (6.1 percent). In comparison with the 2009 results... smoke occasionally over the same period. Men were much more likely to smoke (39 percent) than women

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  5. Newsletter 69 - 08/04/2016

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    and, consequently, slightly upped the relevant rates for those with more than 25 working years... drop in the number of refugees and migrants reaching Greece last week, with less than 100 arrivals one... to the seasonally unadjusted data, the number of employed fell by more than 86,000 to 3.55 million, while

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  6. Newsletter 71 - 22/04/2016

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    for 2015 is above the recent government estimate of 0.2 percent and much better than the programme... the institutions that there is no urgent need for the legislation of contingency measures worth more than 3... and transparent politician than his predecessors and peers, so showing that there is some substance to his

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  7. Newsletter 74 - 20/05/2016

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    underspend. In specific, primary expenditure came in 1.82 billion lower than target, while revenues... underperformed by more than 600 million in the four-month period. An HFSF study presented on Tuesday showed... for automatic spending cuts if Greece’s primary surplus veers off track proved less controversial than

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  8. Newsletter 75 - 27/05/2016

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    of no more than 1.5 percent of GDP, compared to the 3.5 percent envisaged in the third eurozone bailout... a high of 220.43 billion at the end of December and currently make up more than 68 percent of central... pretty simple: look no further than German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble. Even when it appeared

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  9. Potential changes to constitution and electoral law move onto main agenda
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    about the government’s ideas on the constitutional review rather than the adjustment programme, which... has discussed publicly is for the Greek president to be elected by voters rather than Parliament... more than six MPs. He said he is also looking at allowing Greeks to vote from the age of 17, rather

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  10. Five-month budget primary surplus of 2.27 bln, revenues outperform in May

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    by more than 50 percent from last year’s figure of 1.51 billion, the Finance Ministry (MoF) preliminary... billion less than the target, while revenues (before tax refunds) beat the target by 879 million... percent in April, to 3.17 billion euros, 240 million lower than target. For the 4-month period, primary

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