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Newsletter 131 -15/09/2017
Eurosystem funding falls by 5.1 bln The budget primary balance recorded a surplus of 3.55 billion euros... primary surplus up to August was below target by 23 million euros. The monthly primary balance stayed... of 1.12 billion. Additionally, the budget balance in the first eight months of 2017 recorded
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Credit contraction eases to 0.9 pct in August
EconomyMacroeconomycontraction in the Greek market for the last six years, with the loan balance down by more than..., Bank of Greece (BoG) figures showed on Wednesday. This resulted in the outstanding balance falling... million euros, with the balance easing further to 82.61 billion euros. Credit to insurance corporations
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Newsletter 158 -20/04/2018
the tax-free threshold for incomes in 2019, at the same time as cutting pensions, rather than wait... showed this week. The overall cash balance posted a deficit of 99 million euros, improving by 152... beats the target by 1.22 bln The budget primary balance recorded a surplus of 2.32 billion euros
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Newsletter 301 - 18/06/2021
rather than empowering them, as the government argues. SYRIZA and third party KINAL promised..., deflation slowing down, and the current account balance improving. Other short-term indicators... and the public investment budget came to 22.7 billion The budget primary balance recorded a deficit of 8.17
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Newsletter 306 - 23/07/2021
to punish the unvaccinated rather than convince them to get the jab. The latest developments have... year-on-year (YoY) moves attributable to base effects. In an extreme case, the travel balance... with the same month of 2020. Yet the balance of 112.1 million euros remained about 90 percent below
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Stock taking: Where is the Greek economy now?
Agoralong-run visibility is needed. Productivity: We have spent no less than 4 out of 7 previous blogs..., for now, these projections to be too optimistic. Potential growth in Greece is likely to be less than... productivity by hiring people at a faster pace than they contribute to output (this happens
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Newsletter 148 -26/01/2018
than the annual budgeted target. The budget primary balance was confirmed at a surplus of 1.94 billion... than his public comments suggest so far and if Mitsotakis’s decision to extricate himself from.... Given that no more than 30 electronic auctions have been conducted in the last month of 2017, the 2018
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Severe underspend covers lower revenues for end-May primary surplus
Economyhigher than expected Public Investment Budget (PIB) balance (by 1.11 billion) more than offsetting...Greece’s budget execution showed that the 5-month primary surplus more than doubled to 1.51 billion..., the underlying revenue performance in May shows a revenue shortfall of more than 300 million euros. Τax
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Mitsotakis looks beyond New Democracy for votes that could bring him to power
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the current coalition but presenting this in national terms rather than within the traditional political... proceedings against the former head of the Greek statistics service (ELSTAT), Andreas Georgiou, who has been accused of inflating the 2009 deficit figure. Broad appeal However, beyond the internal balances
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Facing accusations of authoritarianism, Tsipras spells out softer future vision in member Q&A
PoliticsGreek Politicsthan party loyalists. Some of the earlier preoccupations which had helped propel SYRIZA to power... political base. The proceedings culminated in a vote on the rights of new members, which was won very... views and of wanting to weaken the checks and balances in the political system. iSYRIZA Having secured
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