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Electricity price shock, pressure on phone-tapping take shine off surveillance exit
PoliticsGreek Politics’ charges prior to government support, showed increases of up to 60 pct over August, eliciting alarmed... failure, which could in turn cause fiscal derailment. Prior to the current crisis, 20 pct of bills... into the autumn, as it tries to structure its last economic package en route to the next elections
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Govt hints at more relief measures as opposition lambasts electricity bill fixes
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat the original 90 pct windfall tax it had promised for the period prior to the summer is yet... years. Objections voiced by senior ADAE officials to the government’s interventions prior
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Revision of GDP to have varied knock-on effect
EconomyMacroeconomyThe Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) released this week the second estimate for 2023 GDP, along with some benchmark revisions of the base year to 2020 and the years prior, starting at 1995..., while of prior years was also revised upwards to 5.7 and 8.7 pct for 2022 and 2021, respectively
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Post-election blamestorming or Why Harris lost and the Democrats should nominate Oprah
Agoradid not vote for her simply because they didn’t know who she was. Prior to becoming Vice President... which she did not gain a high public profile. Her prior role as attorney general for California afforded
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Government faces renewed cover-up claims over OPEKEPE and surveillance scandals
PoliticsGreek Politicsat the now-disbanded OPEKEPE farm payments agency. Under the prior law, the 13 would face trial..., and EYP officials have consistently invoked secrecy provisions in prior questioning; however
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Greece and the euro: The flight of Icarus
Agoraduring this crisis has been of the highest order, providing insight into a complex problem, but some... version of what has happened in Greece in order to support their preconceived ideas about fiscal... was restructured earlier this year. In order for this debt-to-GDP ratio to fall to manageable levels, official
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The complexities of regaining market access: Could Greece learn from Portugal?
Agorawith Athens’ third international creditor – the IMF – is planned to expire a year later. In order to cover... of the Greek government is to return to debt markets in order to regain fiscal sovereignty and thereby decide... the outstanding 35 percent in order to guarantee the successful initial sovereign debt placement
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Cooperatives on Cyprus: Why they were treated differently to banks
Agoragovernment agencies that would guarantee mortgages of families in order for them to receive a lower... a penalizing interest in order to defer to EU competition clauses. The new CEO of the Central Co-operative... before 1931 did so in order to be able to draw credit from the government sponsored Agricultural
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So far and yet so near for Greece and eurozone after second abortive Eurogroup
PoliticsGreek Politicssurpluses and financing in order to guarantee debt sustainability in line with the targets agreed...-term deal is needed in order to negotiate calmly on broader issues, which include debt relief... sides room to negotiate over the coming months. However, time is of the essence in order to seal
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Newsletter 23 - 17/04/2015
funding, desperately short of cash. In order to cover its international and domestic obligations... that in order to pay salaries, pensions and lenders, the government has held back on payments.... It has been clear for some time that in order to overcome this obstacle, the Greek side will have
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