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Newsletter 9 - 30/12/2014
to gain any more than the 168 vote he garnered in the second round – an indication... by 0.6 percentage points in less than two weeks. The narrowing of the difference between the two parties... of Greeks believe things will get worse if SYRIZA wins the upcoming elections, while 33.4 percent think
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Why Greece is asking for 1.2 bln back from the EFSF
Agorathe country’s debt and the debt to GDP ratio by more than 6 percentage points. Those bonds were... the 40 billion euros from the 49.7 billion HFSF share capital, we get 9.7 billion that should be left... fee (on the nominal amount of EFSF bonds banks have received) of more than 220 million for 2012-2013
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Opinion polls indicate fragmentation, close election race
PoliticsGreek Politics, it appears that the contest is building up to be much more closely contested than seemed the case... fewer than the 25 that broke away from SYRIZA to form the party 8) The post-September 20 Parliament... of Greeks (more than two thirds) want to remain in the euro and believe that the third bailout
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Now comes the really hard part
Agora. In the intervening period, more than 40 billion euros in deposits were withdrawn from Greek banks... is not always immediately visible in Greece. However, if the creditors get their way only those living... at less than 120,000 euros will enjoy protection. If this is implemented, it could have a dramatic effect
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Newsletter 83 - 22/07/2016
to the lower-than-expected primary expenditure by 2.1 billion coupled with a revenue over-performance.... For the five-month period, the C/A deficit narrowed by more than 20 percent to 3.51 billion, largely.... This is mostly due to primary expenditure being 2.1 billion lower than the target. Revenues (before tax
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What Dijsselbloem didn't say
Agoraor him as a personality. In football parlance, we should play the ball rather than the man. The reason..., while compounding rather than solving many of the problems it was meant to address. Solidarity... also begin to appreciate that there is more to it than some decision-makers would like to admit. We
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Bond success questioned as coalition looks to build on trial issue
PoliticsGreek Politicswas 4.625, lower than the 4.95 achieved by the Samaras government in 2014, allowed the SYRIZA-led... was higher now than it was in 2014 as Greece’s five-year bond yield has only fallen by 0.325... to the Greek economy to get back to where Greece was in 2014. Conservative leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis
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Strike legislation, auctions present Athens with challenges in wake of SLA
EconomyProgrammeby first-degree unions, requiring them to have a quorum of more than 50 percent rather than the previous... rather than tag it onto legislation submitted by the Digital Policy Ministry, thus allowing a full.... These pieces of legislation aim to tackle most of more than 70 prior actions that remain
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ECB survey shows enduring preference for cash payments in Greece
EconomyFeatureswas less than 1,000 euros. Around 98 percent of Greeks said that it was very easy or fairly easy to get... in cash, with 26 percent of all rent in Greece being paid by this method rather than a bank transfer or card payment. The average for the euro area was 6 percent. Greeks were also more likely than any
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Newsletter 170 -13/07/2018
and the USA are stronger than they have been for decades. AlexisTsipras’s welcome of Vladimir Putin seems... VAT rates for any longer than this year, while the intervention from Germany served as a reminder that Greece is unlikely to get an easy ride from its creditors after the end of the third programme
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