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  1. Greek 15-year bond attracts strong interest, improves debt profile
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    Economy

    at 1.911 percent, attracting just short of 19 billion offers, the highest demand a Greek bond has seen.... Based on the debt strategy for this year, the PDMA has covered more than half of the 4 billion

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  2. Building permits increase by 12.4 pct in November
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    percent to 15,325, meaning that in the first 11 years of the year, 2019 has already beaten the full... last year, construction confidence has increased by 19.2 points.

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  3. New businesses lowest in Greece versus EU with funding obstacles burdening enterprises
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    EconomyFeatures

    , Greece has remained in bottom place since 2015, the year for which the data set first became... companies. Business launches Data from the General Commercial Register database (GEMI) has shown

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  4. Athens goes along with EU over Libya, waits for Turkey's move at UN

    PoliticsForeign Policy

    2020. Athens has tabled specific issues related to the already agreed CBMs, while Ankara has so far

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  5. Authorities struggle with islanders' resistance to closed centres for migrants
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    Mitarakis, with one council leader on Lesbos complaining that “Mr Mitarakis has not come once... the government has enjoyed a degree of approval for its use of the police in support of its “law and order

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  6. Sharp rise in M&A activities as 2019 proves record year
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    EconomyFeatures

    , and representing a record year for such activity in Greece. According to PWC, this activity has been... that the trend towards small-sized transactions between 10 to 150 million euros has solidified

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  7. Retail turnover edged up by 0.2 pct in Dec, annual increase at 1.3 pct
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    , the volume index has turned positive seven times across 2019. The average increase in the volume..., consumer confidence has shown an improvement of 28.5 points. Retail trade rose by 6 points month

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  8. Gathering signs of coronavirus impact on growth expectations
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    Economy

    The Hellenic Fiscal Council (HFC) has warned that the Greek economy could be threatened by the spread of the coronavirus in the eurozone. The council is a member of the European Union’s independent... previously. The OECD has taken a harder stance and puts its forecast at 2.4 percent against 2.9 percent

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  9. Greece gets EU show of support, emergency funds for migration
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    continues to focus on the land border, disquiet on the islands facing the Turkish shore has... demanded of his guests. Despite the warm words from Brussels, the government has not been given carte

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  10. Nearly half of all households still rely on pensions for income, survey shows
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    Society

    Research from the Hellenic Confederation of Professionals, Craftsmen and Merchants (GSEVEE) has shown that pensions financially support almost half of all households in Greece. The phenomenon also... of all households still report pensions as their main source of income. This figure has increased from

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