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  1. Airport redevelopment gets green light, leaving one prior action as lenders return to Athens
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    EconomyProgramme

    The Council of State has approved the redevelopment of Athens’s former airport at Hellenikon, meaning just one prior action from the third review remains to be completed as the Greek government... in what will be one of the largest investments in Greece. What remains is for the casino license

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  2. Over one in five Greeks struggled to make ends meet in 2017
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    Society

    New data from Eurostat has revealed that over one in five Greeks is classed as severely materially deprived and were unable to make ends meet in 2017. Severe material deprivation is defined as being... equivalent) regularly, taking a one week holiday away from home and owning a TV, washing machine, car

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  3. Despite recent improvement, more than half of Greeks unable to afford one-week holiday
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    Society

    residents of all ages who made at least one trip came to 4.8 million and the number of trips to 7.9... at least one trip for personal purposes was seen in those aged 45-64 where an increase of 5.7 percent

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  4. DBRS ups Greece's rating one notch further into investment grade

    Economy

    On Friday DBRS upped Greece's credit rating to ‘BBB’, one notch further into investment grade, while the outlook was lowered to stable from positive. After Scope Ratings in December, DBRS is the latest agency to take Greece further into investment grade, with Moody’s remaining the only one yet

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  5. Primary cash balance posts deficit of 316 mln in first 5 months
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    a year ago. As previously noted, this year’s figure includes a one-off item of around 2 billion... of the year. It is noted that, excluding arrears’ payments, the respective figure dropped by 277 million

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  6. Newsletter 188 -21/12/2018

    Newsletters

    guerrilla group. A number of New Democracy officials made similar comments to the one by Alafouzos... payments showed a decline of 277 million euros to come to 5.19 billion euros. Overall expenditure from

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  7. Vaccination scheme gaps identified as Greece prepares to discard masks
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    close to 43 pct have received at least one jab. The uptake so far has been patchy in terms of geography... patients has edged down to 277. Draft laws Away from the coronavirus, Wednesday’s political agenda

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  8. Govt takes up fiscal requests with EU as pressure over min wage, main homes mounts
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    Politics

    longer-term requests: One is for the creating of a so-called smoothing mechanism to allow any excess surplus from one year to be transferred to the next, along with the longstanding demand..., the institutions also have their mind on other matters, including the primary residence protection

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  9. Wage ruling gives gov't immediate fiscal headache, political one may come later

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    and even then it can only be put towards one-off measures, not those of a permanent fiscal nature

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  10. Only one in 10 jobless Greeks receiving unemployment benefits
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    Society

    Only one in ten of the registered unemployed in Greece are in receipt of any kind of unemployment assistance, according to new figures released by the state jobs agency OAED. According to data for the month of March, a total of 1,057,350 were registered as jobless, which represented a slight

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