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Newsletter 154 -9/03/2018
to the Hellenic Statistical Authority’s (ELSTAT) first estimate released this week. The headline figure came in below the Ministry of Finance’s (MoF) final budget estimate of 1.6 percent. The figure.... For 2018, the MoF revised upwards the growth estimate to 2.5 percent from 2.4 percent in the draft budget
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Debt, fiscal path still divide lenders ahead of Washington Group meeting
EconomyProgramme, and slightly lower at 1.8 percent next year. The estimate for this year is a substantial revision from the WEO estimate in October, when the Fund expected Greece to grow by 2.6 percent in 2018. This leaves the IMF some distance from the Greek authorities and the European Commission, which estimate
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Quarterly GDP growth slows to 1.2 pct in Q2 as investments shrink and imports rise
EconomyMacroeconomyin the Stability Programme for 2022-2025, the growth estimate is revised down to 3.1 pct, from the 4.5 pct figure included in the final 2022 budget. The latest inflation estimate has also been pushed up... published in July, revised down its estimate for this year to 3.2 pct, from 3.8 pct in April
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IMF sees 2024 growth at 2 pct, debt on downward trend due to high primary surpluses
EconomyMacroeconomyby 2 pct in 2024, the same estimate as in October’s WEO. Next year’s growth is also broadly unchanged, with the growth estimate at 1.9 pct. The Fund remains significantly more conservative than the Greek Finance Ministry’s 2.9 pct growth estimate, which was the basis for the 2024 budget. The longer
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GDP up by 1.1 pct QoQ, needs 2.8 pct growth in H2 to reach annual forecast
EconomyMacroeconomyin the Stability Programme sent to Brussels in May, the estimate for 2024 was revised down to 2.5 percent, from the 2.9 percent that was the initial budget estimate. In the latest monetary policy report... from the previous estimate of 2.3 percent. In its growth forecasts, the Parliamentary Budget Office
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Draft budget for 2026 sees growth accelerating to 2.4 pct, tax collections remaining strong
EconomyMacroeconomy. The draft budget slightly revises the growth estimate for this year to 2.2 pct, from 2.3 pct previously. The items revised down for 2025 compared to the previous estimate are investments that are now... will rise close to 261 billion euros, from 249.58 billion euros, against an initial estimate
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Newsletter 16 - 20/02/2015
in his cabinet, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras chose former New Democracy Interior Minister Prokopis... government, with Pavlopoulos as Interior Minister, issued a presidential decree that allowed fixed-term
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Approach to protests, policing poses a new quandary for government
PoliticsGreek Politicsportfolio from the Interior Ministry to the Justice Ministry amid concerns that Panousis and Interior Minister Nikos Voutsis did not see eye to eye. It was notable that Justice Minister Nikos
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Will Tsipras move to centre stage to secure deal with lenders?
PoliticsGreek Politicswithin the government, even leading to thoughts of removing Panousis’s portfolio from the Interior.... Interior Minister Nikos Voutsis and Alternate Minister for European Affairs Nikos Hountis
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Launch of new movement highlights fragmentation of Greek centre-left
PoliticsGreek PoliticsFormer Interior Minister Yiannis Ragoussis is set to launch a new centre-left movement on Wednesday, highlighting the fragmentation in this part of the Greek political spectrum. With PASOK... to liberalise the taxi sector while he was interior, and then transport, minister between 2009 and 2011. He
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