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Budget primary surplus jumps to 1.19 bln in Jan, largely on rising PIB revenues
EconomyMacroeconomyyear and 876 million better than the target. Revenues Revenues (before tax refunds) grew by 2.3... in January, 86 million better than the target and mitigated the underperformance of tax revenues. Meanwhile, tax refunds declined by 16.9 percent to 296 million, 50 million lower than target
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Healthy eating and smoking on decline in Greece over last five years
SocietyGreeks ate vegetables and fruit, smoked cigarettes and drank less frequently in 2014 than five... was greater for men (14.6 percent) than women (6.1 percent). In comparison with the 2009 results... smoke occasionally over the same period. Men were much more likely to smoke (39 percent) than women
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Newsletter 69 - 08/04/2016
and, consequently, slightly upped the relevant rates for those with more than 25 working years... drop in the number of refugees and migrants reaching Greece last week, with less than 100 arrivals one... to the seasonally unadjusted data, the number of employed fell by more than 86,000 to 3.55 million, while
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Newsletter 71 - 22/04/2016
for 2015 is above the recent government estimate of 0.2 percent and much better than the programme... the institutions that there is no urgent need for the legislation of contingency measures worth more than 3... and transparent politician than his predecessors and peers, so showing that there is some substance to his
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Newsletter 74 - 20/05/2016
underspend. In specific, primary expenditure came in 1.82 billion lower than target, while revenues... underperformed by more than 600 million in the four-month period. An HFSF study presented on Tuesday showed... for automatic spending cuts if Greece’s primary surplus veers off track proved less controversial than
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Newsletter 75 - 27/05/2016
of no more than 1.5 percent of GDP, compared to the 3.5 percent envisaged in the third eurozone bailout... a high of 220.43 billion at the end of December and currently make up more than 68 percent of central... pretty simple: look no further than German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble. Even when it appeared
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Potential changes to constitution and electoral law move onto main agenda
PoliticsGreek Politicsabout the government’s ideas on the constitutional review rather than the adjustment programme, which... has discussed publicly is for the Greek president to be elected by voters rather than Parliament... more than six MPs. He said he is also looking at allowing Greeks to vote from the age of 17, rather
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Five-month budget primary surplus of 2.27 bln, revenues outperform in May
EconomyMacroeconomyby more than 50 percent from last year’s figure of 1.51 billion, the Finance Ministry (MoF) preliminary... billion less than the target, while revenues (before tax refunds) beat the target by 879 million... percent in April, to 3.17 billion euros, 240 million lower than target. For the 4-month period, primary
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Net job hirings hit 33,608 in June, highest since 2001
EconomyMacroeconomysince June 2001 and more than double the previous high of 16,017 in 2003. The employment breakdown..., with the bulk of more than 126,700 related to lay-offs and the remaining of 79,260 to voluntary departures. Less than half (around 44 percent) of June hirings involve full-time employment, compared to more
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Unpopular but effective property tax returns for another year
EconomyMacroeconomyENFIA due would be much higher than that of last year and could top 4 billion in 2016 from less than 3.3... property value, while the ENFIA due was less than 50 euros for an aggregate amount of 21.1 million making... percent. The breakdown also showed that more than half (51.5 percent) of taxpayers were due to pay
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