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Budget execution starts 2017 with primary balance outperformance on target-beating revenues
EconomyMacroeconomy, largely reflecting higher than expected revenues (by 340 million), while primary expenditure and Public Investment Budget (PIB) balance came in 58 and 41 million lower than target. In addition, the state... rose by 6.1 percent to 314 million, slightly better than the target. This led net revenues up 10.7
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BoG reveals figures for repatriation and banknotes returning to banking system
EconomyBankinginflow of 430 million, which is lower than the respective figure of 560 million recorded in the two-year... banknotes, the monthly repatriation of funds worth 470 million over the last 17 months was more than... in the July 2015 – November 2016 period stood at 180 million, which is substantially higher than
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First day of talks highlights distance that needs to be covered
EconomyProgrammeon the fiscal issues, it reportedly lasted less than half an hour and the key topic was the agenda of future meetings rather than a comprehensive discussion. Government sources said the starting point... of each year rather than the official announcement by Eurostat around four months later
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Greek women in crisis
Agorathose who have been looking for work for longer than 12 months, 62.35 percent are women. This is equivalent to more than half a million women. However, informal unemployment for women is estimated... than the global average of 23 percent but in certain sectors, the inequalities are startling
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What Dijsselbloem didn't say
Agoraor him as a personality. In football parlance, we should play the ball rather than the man. The reason..., while compounding rather than solving many of the problems it was meant to address. Solidarity... also begin to appreciate that there is more to it than some decision-makers would like to admit. We
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Newsletter 114 - 07/04/2017
(1.82 billion) is owed by 83.8 percent of taxpayers (3.61 million) whose tax debts are less than... more than 300,000 euros each or 78.79 billion combined, corresponding to 84.8 percent of the total..., more than half (52.1 percent) between 2011 and 2015, while the remaining 10.9 percent relates to 2016
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Greeks most sceptical in EU about country's future, their voice counting in Europe
Societyto the EU two years ahead of the next European Parliament elections, Greek responses, more often than... to last for many years” in Greece, which is more than double the EU average of 30 percent. Citizens... to their respective countries (98 and 97 percent) than the citizens of the other member states to theirs
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Newsletter 118 - 12/05/2017
increased at a faster pace of 36.2 percent in March, more than double the growth rate of 17.7... rise of 21 bps to 5.38 percent was recorded for loan amounts of less than 250,000 euros..., Tzanakopoulos described the court as issuing a “non-binding opinion” rather than a “ruling”. He also said
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EU migration survey paints picture of lives of non-native population in Greece
Societywas more than 12 percentage points higher in non-EU both youth than the native born population. The trend in the EU member states tended to show that non-nationals had a higher rate than nationals... rate of nationals was substantially higher than that for non-EU citizens at 21 percentage points
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Newsletter 127 - 14/07/2017
of less than 5 percent. It is not clear if it will be a reopening of the five-year bond that matures... to the markets in the summer of 2018 rather than recent reports. The unnamed official added... at the end of 2016 from 348.77 a year ago. The decline largely reflects a drop by more than 26 billion
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