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  1. Greece's primary surplus: Much ado about nothing?

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    should clarify the discrepancy that emerged. The first point is that Eurostat's figures are identical... in the initial 3-year period and 4.1 pp in 2013. The second key point is that all top eurozone

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  2. Jobs, hundreds of thousands of jobs
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    Agora

    increasing by an average of 0.75 of a percentage point (pp) for every pp of GDP lost. The relationship... and sustainable economic growth. Greece at this point is seriously suffering on all three accounts

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  3. EU elections do not mark end of numbers game in Greek politics
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    percentage point victory over New Democracy suggested there was a “disharmony” between voters... tenure in February next year. At that point a new president will have to be elected by Parliament

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  4. Greek economy contracts 0.9 pct in Q1, slowest pace since Q1 2010

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    government and the troika institutions point to a slowdown at -1.8 percent in 2014. Gross fixed... scheduled flights point to a 25 percent increase to 15.8 million in 2014 indicating another strong

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  5. NPLs: The Achilles heel of the Greek banking system

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    percentage point (pp) compared to those reported by the BoG, we could conclude that the two institutions... figure of 8.4 pp. The IMF chose to point out in its fifth review report on Greece that NPLs

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  6. BoG shows lower deposit rates and a sharper drop in loan rates in June

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    are now almost 1 percentage point closer to those in the euro area. In particular, the rate... that for larger amounts the loan rate In Greece is 1 percentage point higher than the euroarea average

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  7. Q2 GDP contraction at 0.3 pct, strong Q3 needed to achieve target of annual growth
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    institutions point to a slowdown at -1.8 percent in 2014. In contrast, the more updated estimates of the Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research (IOBE) released in late July point to a 0.5 – 1

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  8. SYRIZA's weak foreign, defence policy credentials a vulnerability

    PoliticsForeign Policy

    and the heads of Greece’s armed forces. Tsipras made a point of praising the country’s military after... a point of praising the minister, soon to leave his post to join the European Commission, for being

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  9. Greek jobless rate dips below 26 pct in August for first time in two years
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    Economy

    percent in 2015. Although both projections point to a reduction of circa 2 percentage points in 2015, there is a 1 point deviation in the absolute figures of their forecasts for both years.

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  10. Greek MPs pass 2015 budget but give few clues for presidential vote
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    that Prime Minister Antonis Samaras opened his speech by responding to this specific point, accusing Tsipras.... During Sunday night’s debate, Samaras made a point of stressing Romanos’s criminal record after

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