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PBO highlights budget, recovery risks in latest report
EconomyMacroeconomyThe quarterly report of Parliament’s Budget Office (PBO) raises some concerns on the budget front as developments over the last months have increased fiscal risks, although achieving the target... developments cascade on budget data as the recovery in economic activity helps taxpayers meet
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ND focusses on economic goals in run-up to budget vote
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAway from the diplomatic tension with Turkey, the 2020 budget and other economic issues are top... the fact that next year’s budget is designed to just surpass the 3.5 percent of GDP primary surplus... targets, Finance Minister Christos Staikouras told MPs during the budget debate that Athens intends
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Draft budget sees growth picking up in 2024, strong revenues driving primary surplus to 2.1 pct of GDP
EconomyMacroeconomyThe Finance Ministry tabled in Parliament on Monday the draft budget for 2024, with Greece seen... in the 2023 draft budget. Private consumption is expected to rise by a modest 1.6 pct, after a rise...-Bills stable at 11.8 billion euros and loans reduced to 247.18 billion euros. The final budget
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Details of 2025 budget point to complex economic challenges ahead
EconomyMacroeconomyThe Finance Ministry tabled last Wednesday the final budget for 2025. As much as the headline... to have been overestimated. Around this time last year, investment growth in this year’s final budget.... This corresponds to close to 55 pct of tax revenues this year and next, and 51 pct of total budget
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PM intervenes on bank charges as budget attracts extra support
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis used Sunday’s budget vote as an opportunity to respond to recent... to emphasise during his speech that the 2025 budget underlines Greece’s return to stability, especially... voters about economic issues, topped by the cost of living. Extra votes The budget passed with 159
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Podcast - Tax cuts and balancing acts: Greece's 2026 budget
AgoraGreece's 2026 budget was voted through Parliament on Tuesday, just ahead of the Christmas break... is in the budget? MacroPolis co-founder Yiannis Mouzakis joins host Nick Malkoutzis in The Agora to discuss... budget amid protests - Reuters Agora Podcast
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Newsletter 93 - 21/10/2016
about his private life appeared in the local media. Draft budget is heavy on taxes, PBO says Talks... and tax-centric austerity of the 2017 draft budget were highlighted in an interim report published by the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO). The PBO commented that the underlying macro assumptions
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Newsletter 103 - 20/01/2017
on TrainOSE’s debt to OSE, amounting to more than 700 million, is pending. 2 Budget primary surplus almost... reading in 2016. The budget primary surplus stood at 4.39 billion euros in 2016, almost double the 2015 figure of 2.27 billion, according to the preliminary budget execution bulletin published
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Newsletter 107 - 17/02/2017
adopting in its winter forecasts the Greek outlook for a 2016 primary surplus of (at least) 2 percent... the Fund before these dates. The IMF believes that Greece has to adopt 2 percent of GDP (or 3.6 billion... review The budget primary balance recorded a surplus of 1.02 billion euros in January, according
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Newsletter 131 -15/09/2017
of issues on his mind. One of his key headaches is on the fiscal side. Budget execution figures... showed that unpaid taxes shot up by just over 2 billion euros in July compared to a rise of 727 million... Eurosystem funding falls by 5.1 bln The budget primary balance recorded a surplus of 3.55 billion euros
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