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Greece and Turkey move ahead with talks on Confidence Building Measures
PoliticsForeign PolicyDelegations from Greece and Turkey discussing Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) are due to meet at the Ministry of Defence in Athens on Monday. The delegations will be led by ambassador Theocharis Lalakos and Turkey’s deputy foreign minister Burak Aksapar, respectively. High-ranking military
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Athens wary of implications from Erdogan's cancelled trip to Washington
PoliticsForeign Policywith his counterpart, Burak Akcapar in İstanbul on April 26 for the 6th round of discussions
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Central gov’t debt rises to 314.6 bln in Q3 on eurozone tranche and GGB redemptions
Economy. In addition, GGBs now account for 19 percent of total debt in Q3 down for 21.2 percent in Q2. GGBs held... stable QoQ at 14.92 billion, making up 4.7 percent of total, while repos fell to 9.81 billion (3.1 percent of total). In addition, the Bank of Greece holds loans of 3.79 billion. Special purpose
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General gov't primary cash surplus more than doubles to 4.14 bln in 2015, arrears ease to 5.4 bln
EconomyMacroeconomythan half of total arrears. Arrears to hospitals increased by 324 million euros to 931 million in 2015 making up 17.3 percent of total. State budget arrears recorded the first largest increase by 294 million to 451 million at the end of December accounting for 8.4 percent of total. The other three sub
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Greeks’ wealth fell by 0.6 pct in 2016 for third straight decline
Economywith financial assets making up 22.5 percent of the total figure and equities accounting for only one fourth of financial assets, the negative performance of shares had a limited impact on the domestic total... showed 2.09 million Greek adults (22.9 percent of total) had wealth below 10,000 dollars, while for 4.72
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Draft budget highlights taxpayer fatigue, creates policy mix doubts
EconomyMacroeconomyeuros. This total figure is even lower than in 2016, when it landed at 52.34 billion. In the draft budget, not just the 2017 figure has been revised. The total revenue figure for 2018 has also been... that this underperformance in revenues will also be more evident when the full-year picture emerges. Total revenues have
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Net job hirings balance positive by 15,315 in December
EconomyMacroeconomylayoffs. Full-time hirings represented 42.6 percent of the total. The balance has persistently remained... of work made up 57.4 percent of the total, broken down into 41.8 percent for part-time and 15.6 percent.... The share of males among total hirings increased to 58.7 percent in December from 58.2 percent
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Newsletter 166 -15/06/2018
of total) will see increases of between 50 and 200 euros, while another 48,961 property owners (0.7... months. Compared to March 2017, total permits were lower by 31. The corresponding surface area rose..., bringing the total for employed to 3.7 million. The number of long-term unemployed (over 1 year
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Piraeus Bank issues Tier II bond to strong demand
EconomyBankingof increasing Piraeus Bank’s total capital ratio by around 90 bps. The issue has been rated Caa3 by Moody’s and CCC by S&P. Bids landed at over twice the asking amount, with a total of 135 investors... euros on Wednesday. In total, bids of over 850 million euros were submitted. On its website, the bank
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Newsletter 216 -26/07/2019
7.1 percent higher than for the same time last year. During the first six months of the year, total... to roughly 2.4 million visitors during the month. In total, arrivals from the EU 28 countries fell... a rise of 8 percent YoY. In total, arrivals edged down 0.9 percent in the first five months
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