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Greece offers to assist in Gaza humanitarian effort
PoliticsForeign Policythan a month for a Greek official to visit the West Bank following the Hamas terrorist attack... in the humanitarian operations as it has decided to develop a floating hospital off the coast of Gaza. The Greek navy lacks such a specialised vessel. However, as diplomatic sources note, if Greece
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Greek households spend greatest share of income on accommodation in EU
Societystate. Greek households spend 42.5 percent of their income on housing, the biggest chunk in the EU... highest jumps after Greece. The situation in poorer Greek households, where 76 percent of disposable... in four Greeks lived in overcrowded conditions, an increase of 2.4 pp from 2009 to 2014. Women living
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Yields rise, but Greek debt still partly shielded from market headwinds
Economysince the 2011-2013 period when the eurozone crisis was at its peak. The Greek 10-year stands... crisis. As we noted in June, the yield landscape does not pose any immediate concerns for the Greek... conditions in July when it re-opened the 10-year bond that was issued several months earlier, in January
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We can't ignore population shifts within the European Union
Agoracan become in the future. In doing the research for these two books, I came upon an intriguing..., upon further investigation, it appears that from the eastern border of the EU (from Estonia... creating dystopian conditions. Consistency is crucial: population dynamics are long-term forces
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One year of SYRIZA
Agorathe start. Forget its inexperience, cast off its ideological straitjacket and ignore the factors... being shut off would limit the bargaining power of the new government. This was even more so the case.... The result of all this was for the Greek economy to suffer another blow, on top of the damage that had
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Business balance positive in 2017, small companies continue to dominate
EconomyFeaturesdata; in 2016, 5,477 more single trade businesses came off the register than joined it. Similarly... (IOBE) also found that entrepreneurs in Greek tended to show a lack of innovation, reducing... companies was significantly inflated due to 101,676 such companies coming off the registry in 2011
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Newsletter 368 - 03/02/2023
will not pay off for SYRIZA because it shows a disregard for the democratic process on Tsipras’s part and this will be a turn off for the kind of politically moderate voters that the opposition leader... first month of the new year concluded with some welcome news for the Greek government as Fitch
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Newsletter 7 - 12/12/2014
signs are that a gamble by Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras to move the presidential election... will not pay off. However, there is enough doubt about the outcome of the three rounds of voting to preclude... to the troika in a bid to close the long-running review of the Greek programme. At the same time, the earlier
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National Bank posts net loss of 1.1 bln in Q4
EconomyBankingprofit of 30 million in Q3. The Q4 bottom-line results were burdened by one-off items of 1.09 billion... interest income (NII) grew 5 percent QoQ to 821 million with Greek NII posting a higher improvement (+7...) QoQ. Greek lending spreads remained broadly stable QoQ, with the exception of consumer spread which
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Newsletter 76 - 03/06/2016
not reinstate the waiver on Greek government securities. The bank’s president, Mario Draghi, stressed... and the European The Greek government is aiming for a successful conclusion of the review to unlock.... Greek banks currently hold Greek government securities with a nominal value of 9.3 billion. Taking
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