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Mitsotakis sticks with stability mantra as SYRIZA looks for new approach
PoliticsGreek Politicswith the uncertainty that would come from the conservatives failing to get more than 150 MPs and having.... In the meantime, SYRIZA is searching for a way to get over its disastrous campaign in the first... of the opposition parties teaming together to form a government since the winning party will get an extra 50
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NPLs: The Achilles heel of the Greek banking system
AgoraHaving completed capital increases of 8.3 billion euros, which more than covered the capital needs..., Greek banks’ NPLs, which are defined as the loans past due for more than 90 days, remain... at 33.1 percent (from 25.5 percent in 2012). Since both figures are different by more than one
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Newsletter 49 - 30/10/2015
is worth less than 120,000 euros and whose annual income is close to the poverty threshold, meaning... reports claim that the quadriga’s proposal would protect less than one-fifth of indebted households... who say they backed New Democracy at the last elections than Tzitzikostas, while the younger man
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Newsletter 67 - 18/03/2016
probably be lower than the government’s proposed 384 euros. In addition, compared to the initial... for those with more than 25 years. However, they seem to agree on an increase in contributions...-on-quarter (QoQ) to 190 million, primarily reflecting a rebound in core operating income that more than
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Newsletter 88 - 16/09/2016
Yannis Stournaras, with the institutions likely to be agitated if they get the impression that Athens.... Nikolopoulou-Stournara denies any wrongdoing. Rather than the raid itself, it is the timing of the intervention... had tried to get back at Stournaras over his decision to block its choices by targeting his wife
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Newsletter 90 - 30/09/2016
percent to reach 28.02 billion, 363 million higher than target, although August’s target included... is a crucial month for revenue collection, since individuals are due to pay a total of more than 1.8... and sight accounts, respectively, more than offsetting a negative flow of 1.62 billion from savings
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Learning the lessons of Greece's toxic decade
Agoraof fiscal data to make Greece’s public finances look worse than they were. The rationale behind the accusation was that the deficit of 2009 was intentionally inflated to make it worse than Ireland’s... in close to 10 billion euros in revenues from increased economic activity, and more than 4 billion
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Eurogroup doesn't end in tie for Tsipras
AgoraDid Greece get what it wanted out of Thursday’s meeting of eurozone finance ministers.... It provides some certainty for the years ahead and means lower targets than some of the lenders might... that his government secured some more funding than expected for clearance of arrears, a little more
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Greeks deeply pessimistic about future but confidence in euro persists
Society12 months, Greeks had a significantly more negative outlook than the EU average. Around 62 percent... that the employment situation in Greece would get worse in the next 12 months compared to an average... compared to an average positive response of 47 percent. Greeks were twice as likely than the EU
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For better or worse: Greece's bailout exit deja vu
Agoraneed the rest of the money that we were due to get as part of the current memorandum from the start... Hardouvelis, argued that Greece could get similar borrowing rates from the market to those of the IMF... was underwhelming and Greece accepted less than it had initially targeted. The ensuing months shuttered
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