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Parties give first hint of strategies in reaction to poll announcement
PoliticsGreek Politics. This step, which is expected to take place on May 2, will determine whether Ellines, the party of jailed... opinion polls, with some figures suggesting that they could make the 3 pct threshold to enter... will be dissolved anew by May 31, and new elections declared for July 2. The second contest would take
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Newsletter 449 - 31/01/2025
briefing the local press that after a successful 2024 that brought in an additional 2 billion euros... tax relief. The primary surplus came to 3 pct of GDP, from 2.5 pct initially expected and the budget..., amounting to 443,639. The unemployment rate among women fell by roughly 2 points year-on-year and came
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Newsletter 454 - 07/03/2025
for France and 3.92 pct for Italy, compared to 2 pct, 2.9 pct and 3.2 pct respectively in December... performance is structural and could be repeated in 2025, leading to a primary surplus of over 2 pct... of the weekUnemployment January saw a sharp drop in the unemployment rate to 8.7 pct, a drop of 3 percentage
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Newsletter 482 - 31/10/2025
months of the year tax receipts ran more than €2 billion above target. Yet that macro success sits... construction irregularities, meaning only about 3% fully comply with original permits. Since transactions... to improvements in most components, while consumer confidence resumed its slide by 2 points to -47.6.
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Government unveils 2026 reform agenda as Karystianou party continues to shake up politics
PoliticsGreek PoliticsSolution with 7.5 pct, KKE with 7 pct and SYRIZA with 6.5 pct. Several parties cluster around the 3 pct... with 2 pct. Around 4 pct say they would vote for non-mainstream parties and 12.5 pct declare themselves... of interest, compared to 28 pct of prospective PASOK voters and 2 pct of prospective New Democracy
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GDP grew by 0.8 pct QoQ in Q4, 2025 real growth at 2.1 pct
EconomyMacroeconomywere up by 3 percent QoQ and services exports decreased by 0.3 percent. Imports of goods rose by 4.6.... Nominal GDP was up by 4.9 percent, reaching 248.35 billion euros. Household consumption was up by 2... pct in 2026. In its latest WEO released in October, the IMF sees growth of 2 pct in 2025
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Approach to protests, policing poses a new quandary for government
PoliticsGreek Politicsportfolio from the Interior Ministry to the Justice Ministry amid concerns that Panousis and Interior Minister Nikos Voutsis did not see eye to eye. It was notable that Justice Minister Nikos
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Will Tsipras move to centre stage to secure deal with lenders?
PoliticsGreek Politicswithin the government, even leading to thoughts of removing Panousis’s portfolio from the Interior.... Interior Minister Nikos Voutsis and Alternate Minister for European Affairs Nikos Hountis
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Launch of new movement highlights fragmentation of Greek centre-left
PoliticsGreek PoliticsFormer Interior Minister Yiannis Ragoussis is set to launch a new centre-left movement on Wednesday, highlighting the fragmentation in this part of the Greek political spectrum. With PASOK... to liberalise the taxi sector while he was interior, and then transport, minister between 2009 and 2011. He
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PM seeks to douse snap election talk, points to October polls
PoliticsGreek Politicsfuelled on Monday by an amendment submitted to Parliament by the Interior Ministry. It aims... a parliamentary majority. The rule had been introduced in 2014 but the Interior Ministry argues
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