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Despite sharp increase in Dec, current account deficit improves markedly in 2025 to 14.11 bln
EconomyMacroeconomyto 7.57 billion euros in December, from 7.01 billion last year. At the same time, total exports came
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Clashes add to political tension over division, police violence
PoliticsGreek Politicsadvised them that the man who had been beaten was a member of a radical left group and had been... as police clashed with some protestors. One policeman was dragged off his motorcycle and beaten. Along
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Divided we fall?
AgoraAntonis Samaras became the arch-proponent of the anti-memorandum line, feeding the populism that saw... fed antagonism. Samaras's New Democracy cultivated the "theory of the two extremes," which saw... groups that share much in common: Fatigue, fear, uncertainty and distrust but nothing unites them
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Newsletter 62 - 12/02/2016
fund (IKA) saw the level of contributions paid in by workers plummet by 31.5 percent between 2010... government’s wayward and naïve negotiating strategy last year, which saw the early signs of an economic... perfectly: “Our patience has run out.” This is the result of the fatigue of spending 5.5 years under
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Multiple crises fence in Greece
Agorafunds. The country’s main social security fund (IKA) saw the level of contributions paid..., which saw the early signs of an economic recovery wiped out and Greece’s banks undermined... of the fatigue of spending 5.5 years under an adjustment programme that has failed to get Greece back
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Company closures dropped sharply during the pandemic
EconomyFeaturesand retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles” which saw 8,082 closures. While that may seem... actually dropped 18.9 percent. In fact, only one sector saw an increase in the number of closures in 2020: electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply, which saw an increase of 26.4 percent
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October revenues reverse earlier shortfall, annual primary surplus in sight
Economyto the targets being beaten over the last four months, even though there is a steady increase
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Two hurdles left for coalition this year before bigger challenges in 2014
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreece’s coalition has two more hurdles to clear before it stumbles over the finishing line at the end of the year, exhausted and battered but not quite yet beaten. The first challenge is to pass the new property tax, which unites previous disparate levies in one charge, through Parliament. The new
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First round of local elections leave Greek politics finely balanced
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDemocracy’s incumbent Vassilis Michaloliakos was beaten into second place by independent Yiannis Moralis
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Wages index edges up YoY in Q1 after sinking by 24.8 pct since 2010
EconomyMacroeconomybeaten by that of Cyprus (-7.9 percent). In addition, Greece and Cyprus are the only two countries
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