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Athens balancing diplomacy and defence amid Middle East turmoil
PoliticsForeign Policy. Greece is also maintaining active engagement in Libya, with scheduled visits by the Foreign Minister... in Libya, promote stability and address pressing issues such as migration, while reiterating Greece’s
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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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How Greek banks could cut 2014 financing gap with a bond rollover
Economygovernment bonds (GGBs) that mature in 2014 with a total nominal value of circa 15 billion... and recognised in EBA core Tier I, Tier I and total adequacy capital, while being excluded from core Tier I...) for the Greek state. Furthermore, they would have to pay increased interest trimming their anticipated
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A fierce political clash over medicine prices in Greece
PoliticsGreek Politicslast year a total of about 5.5 billion euros on some 6,800 drugs available on the local market... in 2010 and has come about through patients being forced to pay more, lower margins for wholesalers.... Of the 5.5 billion spent in total last year, more than 900 million (almost 17 percent) was on generic
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How Greek banks moved into a new era
Agora. They successfully raised a total of 8.31 billion (Alpha 1.2 billion, Eurobank 2.86, National 2.5... and 425 million respectively) determined by the BoG, enabled the two banks to pay back their state..., the four banks had accumulated LLRs of 43 billion corresponding to 16.6 percent of the total loan book
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In Greece, number of people at risk of poverty or social exclusion rises to 3.9 mln in 2013
Society) to pay rent or utility bills, ii) keep home adequately warm, iii) face unexpected expenses, iv) eat... of population at risk of poverty or social exclusion, 2004-2013 Year % of total population 2004 30.9...: percentage of population materially deprived, 2003-2013 Year % of total population 2003 16.9 2004 14.1
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Newsletter 7 - 12/12/2014
will not pay off. However, there is enough doubt about the outcome of the three rounds of voting to preclude... that the HFSF capital buffer – the unused amount of the fund’s total capital of 49.7 billion that has... cooperative) were resolved in 2012 and 2013 and are currently under liquidation. The bulk of their total
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The numbers behind Greece's reform proposals
EconomyProgrammeinstalment schemes to discriminate efficiently between strategic defaulters and those unable to pay... stamps. The total cost of the first pillar was estimated by SYRIZA at 1.86 billion euros and also... tenders ultimately leads to large total expenditure, Mardas stressed. According to European
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Newsletter 20 - 20/03/2015
of pillar II bonds, which carry an additional cost of 1.4 percent. This relates to the fees banks pay... by another 8.5 billion in February, bringing the total outflows in the 3-month period to 25.5 billion.... That said, withdrawals from large accounts (above 500,000 euros) accounted for just 10 percent of total
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