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  1. Newsletter 121 - 02/06/2017

    Newsletters

    .” The government is pushing for a better deal than the one it was offered last month, particularly... priority than debt relief,” he said. “Former programme countries such as Spain and Ireland..., more than doubling to 659 million in April from 307 million in March. The April figure is the highest

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  2. Compliance report looks at programme financing, arrears clearance and 2016 performance
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    EconomyProgramme

    in arrears clearance, having reduced the stock by more than one third since June 2016. The pile... on 2016 revenues relate to the higher than expected dividend from the Bank of Greece as well..., lower than expected investment spending and continued expenditure restraint also supported the fiscal

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  3. Government stalls possible bond issue, clashes again with judiciary
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    Monetary Fund is holding its executive board meeting on June 20, rather than June 27 as was initially... that it achieves a lower yield than the New Democracy-led coalition in 2014, when it reached 4.95 percent... that the 2014 bond had a yield that was 1.41 times higher than Portugal’s rate. He suggested that if the same

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  4. UN steers clear of Cyprus blame game as focus moves to hydrocarbons
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    steps should be. Eide made this comment after briefing the UN Security Council for more than two hours... said there had been a collective failure in reaching an agreement rather than anything else. “We... intervention by the council that this process took Cyprus closer than ever before to a settlement

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  5. Greece completes first bond issue in three years, eyes more on way out of programme
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    Economy

    each, while Piraeus GGBs amounted to less than 400 million euros. The new bond coupon of 4.375 percent stands 0.325 percentage points lower than the respective coupon of 4.75 percent of the previous... with more than 550 orders from the investment community. Although the transactions are not fully

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  6. Newsletter 129 - 28/07/2017

    Newsletters

    further transactions should be expected by August 2018. somewhat better than expected”. Tsakalotos also... in 1.16 billion below target coupled with a higher-than-targeted Public Investment Budget (PIB) balance... attributed to a better than expected performance of direct taxes. Tax revenues beat target by 451 million

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  7. Overdue social security contributions increase 827 mln to 23.3 bln at end of Q2

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    to over 800,000 at the end of Q2, a rise of more than 182,000 QoQ. The breakdown shows that nearly three quarters of debtors owe less than 15,000 euros each for an aggregate amount of 2.17 billion... percent of total) owe more than 1 million each for a total amount of 6.53 billion. Though they represent

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  8. Greek demographic ratios among the worst in Europe
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    Society

    to compensate for the number of deaths in less than a third of EU states. It also points to the gulf... notes that more people leave the labour market to retire than young people enter it to replace them. “In countries with low fertility rates this process is happening more quickly and abruptly than

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  9. Budget primary surplus at 3.02 bln in July, above target by 926 mln on strong underspend
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    by 458 million, driven by lower than targeted tax revenues in other excise taxes (-9.8 percent... mainly from higher than expected indirect taxes which outperformed the target by 230 million. Direct... in the seven-month period, 376 million higher than the target. Overall, net revenues amounted to 26.25

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  10. Greek banks meet NPE reduction targets in Q2, write-offs remain primary source of reduction
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    EconomyBanking

    billion lower than the target of 103.4 billion. The NPE ratio stood at 50.6 percent in Q2, slightly higher than the anticipated level of 50 percent. This was driven by a lower than expected volume of total loans which translated into a higher than expected NPE ratio. The NPE coverage ratio edged down

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