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  1. ND defends economic pledges as Kammenos repeats walkout threat
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    , the opposition party claims that it can help Greece achieve higher growth rates than the current government... rather than an abrupt end to their partnership of almost four years.

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  2. VAT revenues up in 2016 but rate hikes fail to close gap of 29 pct
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    EconomyFeatures

    The European Commission's VAT Gap report has revealed that high rates of VAT in Greece appear to have fed tax avoidance rather than close the gap between expected and actual revenues. Out..., general government revenues came to 87.37 billion euros, 589 million euros higher than the figure

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  3. ANEL leader under scrutiny due to party unrest, questions over refugee funds
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    abroad. The allegations that the Defence Ministry used funds in a less than transparent..., the lower the percentage needed to gain more than 150 seats in the House.

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  4. Draft budget contains two scenarios on pensions, charts course within agreed fiscal targets
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    percent in 2018. Imports will grow by 2.1 pps less than initially estimated, while public consumption... by just 0.2 percentage points. Exports are expected to rise by more than assumed in the MTFS, by 5.8

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  5. Eurogroup suggests there is scope for pension cuts to be called off

    EconomyProgramme

    situation of Greece today looks much better than 18 months ago, precisely when this fiscal decision.... Nevertheless, Monday’s comments are significantly more encouraging for Athens’s hopes than other recent

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  6. Migration troubles move up political agenda as probe into use of fund is launched

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    are less than a year away. In a press conference in Arta, northwestern Greece, on Monday, New Democracy... sensitive than others about the plight of migrants but now being content to “pile up people in camps

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  7. New overdue taxes rise by 849 mln in August with total stock at 102.81 bln

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    totalled 6.42 billion, lower than the figure for the same period last year by just under 25 percent. New... than the increase of 392 million noted in July. The VAT collectability rate declined to 83.8

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  8. Athens to send draft budget to Brussels after talks with IMF on pensions

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    cuts than a few weeks ago, when European officials appeared reticent and IMF spokesman Gerry Rice... on hold, pending future fiscal performance, rather than scrapped completely.

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  9. Greece 57th in WEF's Global Competitiveness Index based on new methodology

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    was 62.1 percent, slightly better than the global average score of 60 percent. The result... to the US, while the worst spot was occupied by Chad at number 140. Germany scored 20 points higher than

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  10. Tsipras faces challenges ahead on multiple foreign policy fronts
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    ; Tsipras had a slightly different approach than his Foreign Minister when talks were taking place... Agreement. Logically, foreign policy in general is likely to become more static than in previous years

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