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Newsletter 231 -06/12/2019
has labelled the deal “illegal,” arguing that Libya’s prime minister does not have the legal... to Erdogan when the pair met in Watford. It has also been condemned by Egypt and Cyprus, the other countries... as acting meekly in the face of Turkish provocations. Mitsotakis has said that he had an “open discussion
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Unemployment at 20.1 percent in March
EconomyMacroeconomyin the below 24 years bracket at 43.2 percent, although this rate has declined by 2 pps year-on-year...Greece’s seasonally adjusted (SA) unemployment rate in March came to 20.1 percent, falling against...) data showed on Thursday. The unemployment rate in March last year was 22.1 percent. This March's
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Unemployment at 18.6 pct in September as unemployed decline by 11.1 pct year-on-year
EconomyMacroeconomyrate came to 20.8 percent. September’s figure marks the sixth consecutive month that unemployment has..., this age group still has the highest rate of overall unemployment. August marks the fifth time...Greece’s seasonally adjusted (SA) unemployment rate stayed under 19 percent for a second
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Newsletter 241 - 28/02/2020
in a society accustomed to witnessing heavy policing of urban protests. While the government has... by sending in riot police has not gone down well with the public or the opposition, while concerns grow..., Mitsotakis has his work cut out to secure voters’ backing on this issue. The challenge faced
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Waiting for the hurricane
Agoraproblems holding Greece back has been disappointing so far. The only excuse that Tsipras and his...Over the last few months, Greece has been like a town on the East Coast of the USA during... whether the creditors will offer any clear path to debt relief. If the Greek leader has little
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Newsletter 218 -06/09/2019
cuts as well as its strategy for attracting investment and boosting the growth rate. The visit... three of the visits (The Netherlands, Germany and France) Mitsotakis has made since returning from his brief summer holiday, the Greek prime minister has stressed his government’s efforts to make Greece
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Newsletter 174 -14/09/2018
has fallen under 20 percent. Compared to the same period last year, the jobless rate has declined..., after Greece has submitted its draft 2019 budget and before the revised version has to be tabled... on the way that the government plans to lighten the burden on taxpayers now that Greece has exited the MoU
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Politics trumping economic prudence in Greece
Agorais a holding company that has a rather unimpressive track record of investing in predominantly Greek... with an equity investment in a holding company that risks looking more like a lifeline for MIG than... Paulson & Co. has had to suffer during the past 12 months. But he may start looking at Piraeus Bank
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New overdue taxes rise by 1.37 bln in Feb, total reaches 104.4 bln
EconomyMacroeconomy. The IAPR has set a goal for the collectability rate to reach 81.5 percent in the first quarter of 2019.... the Independent Authority of Public Revenues (IAPR) has shown. The aggregate figure for the first... at 2.04 billion euros compared to 714 million in January. The VAT collectability rate edged down
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Unemployment falls to 17.6 pct in April, dipping under 18 pct for first time since Jul 2011
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece’s seasonally adjusted (SA) unemployment rate came to 17.6 percent in April from an upward revised rate of 18.2 percent in March, Hellenic Statistical Authority’s (ELSTAT) data showed on Thursday. For the same time last year, the unemployment rate came to 19.8 percent. April’s reading marks
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