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  1. Greek tax wedge remained far above OECD average in 2015

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    percent. The comparison for single-earner married couple with two children shows Greece has the 6th... 39.1 percent in 2000 to 39.3 percent in 2015. Over this period, the respective OECD average has dropped by 0.7 pp. The OECD notes that there has been high volatility in the Greek figure since 2010

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  2. Youth wing scrap prefaces test for Mitsotakis at ND congress

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    has not been ideal as the conservative chief found himself having to deal with problems in the party..., the weekend’s events give him a stronger licence to proceed with this project. However, ONNED has... structure. Nevertheless, Mitsotakis has shown a determination so far to stamp his authority

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  3. Significant fall in migrant arrivals but camp conditions a growing concern

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    that the EU-Turkey agreement has had an impact even though only a handful of refugees and migrants... statement on Wednesday, EU border agency Frontex now has 1,074 staff in Greece but the European Asylum... and the limited resources that the Greek government has committed or is able to commit towards managing

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  4. Demand for hospitals' reserves raises concerns about govt's liquidity position

    Economy

    to consumption and non-allocated expenditure, social protection and grants to hospitals. Greece has paid.... Greece has to repay on July 20 2.31 billion euros in bonds held by the ECB. The practice that has been

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  5. Eurobank turns profitable in Q1 for first time since Q3 2011, with net profit of 60 mln
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    EconomyBanking

    in Q4. The bank has guided for a cost of risk below 2 percent for the whole of 2016. On the asset... in December, while has slipped to 22.8 billion in May. The breakdown shows ELA funding currently stands at 18.1 billion and ECB funding at 4.7 billion. A part of the previously used Euroystem funding has

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  6. Pending pensions mount up, complicating fiscal effort
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    Economy

    main pensions (i.e. applications for pensions for which the process has been delayed for technical, bureaucratic or other reasons) has reached 159,290 cases. More than half (85,300) related to IKA... pensions to the private sector has an estimated cash deficit of 700 million this year, which is due

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  7. After Brexit vote, Tsipras stresses need for political response to EU shortcomings

    PoliticsForeign Policy

    · A democratic deficit · The resurfacing of stereotypes The Greek prime minister said that the EU has... of the EU, including when he stood as a candidate for European Commission president in 2014. Tsipras has... democrats, gradually moving SYRIZA away from its leftist affiliations. To balance this, he has stressed

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  8. SYRIZA to suggest switch to proportional representation, schedules congress for Oct
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    percent 10 years earlier, which suggests that there has been a substantial shift in public opinion... in a position to form the next government. However, SYRIZA has argued in favour of proportional... universities. Mitsotakis has said he is willing to back such a change. The central committee marked

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  9. Tsipras gauges EU mood on Brexit as gov't strives for support on change to electoral system
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    a government after future elections, the Communist Party (KKE) has also declared its opposition... to be adopted immediately. The Union of Centrists (9 MPs) has said it will back the overhaul. Its... for the winning party would have to remain. New Democracy has proposed something along the same lines

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  10. Simple majority for new electoral law, which threatens future complications
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis has committed himself and his party to such a goal. However..., for example) so the process is made easier this way also seem slim. Although New Democracy has forged ahead..., there has been a suspicion since last year that at some point he may be invited to join the government

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