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Newsletter 173 -07/09/2018
, Mitsotakis to follow In what will be one of the last throws of the dice he has to recover support, Prime... but indicated he would maintain a policy of one hiring for every five departures... with the institutions that it can change to one-in-one-out from next year. GDP growth slows to 0.2 pct QoQ in Q2
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Moments to remember from the euro crisis
Agoraother institutions, though, the ECB’s contribution has also come in for scrutiny. One of the central... and economic damage remains a live question. Trichet was one of the most vocal opponents of debt relief... but there are aspects of its role that leave a bitter taste. One of those is the head of the euro’s
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Newsletter 185 -30/11/2018
, it should be pointed out that the original reduction was one of the counter-measures agreed in return... rather than being carried out in one go. The other measure announced was this year’s “social dividend... to holding elections in March. According to Kathimerini, one of the outlets to suggest that this option
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Bank of Greece outlines challenges to SME funding, gaps in knowledge
EconomyFeatures. Regarding their ownership structure, almost two thirds of firms are owned by family or entrepreneurs, one quarter belongs to only one owner and the remaining 7 percent is owned by other enterprises, business... are classified as trade firms, around one third is active in the services sector and almost one
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Extending Brexit: Reaching the Larry David moment of the saga
Agoraof Commons in favour of a referendum, one has to point out that the organisation..., the chances of Theresa May resigning -whose resilience is often likened to the one of Monty Python’s... that the views of the next Parliament will be fundamentally different to the current one given that the views
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Athens eyes multiple benefits from joining China-backed 17+1 initiative
PoliticsForeign Policyapproved Greece’s longstanding ambition to become one of the members of this coalition, which could... initially participated as an observer. Just one day before this year’s summit in Dubrovnik... to Brussels, as well as Berlin, which is one of the European capitals that has not hidden its
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NPEs down by 13 pct to 81.8 bln in 2018, but BoG highlights continuing credit risk
EconomyBanking’ loans by 14.6 percent to 25.1 billion euros, which is close to one third of NPEs. However, the rise... than one year. The equivalent statistic for mortgages that have not been serviced for one year... loans, however close to one in five of those loans that had reached an agreement are again overdue
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ND, SYRIZA clash over public sector reforms ahead of vote on second govt bill
PoliticsGreek Politics, a constitutional expert who is one of Mitsotakis’s closest advisers. He rejected the accusation... secretary positions from a shortlist of three provided by ASEP. Gerapetritis said this led to just one... would be decided by the ASEP procedure and that there would be no political interference. One
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SYRIZA launches membership drive but still struggles with 2015 backwash
PoliticsGreek Politicsprime minister Yiannis Dragasakis argued that one of SYRIZA’s main mistakes was that it did not make...,” added the senior SYRIZA official in one of the most outspoken attacks on Varoufakis from his... one day about the events of 2015. He threatened to reveal juicy details or “names and addresses
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Covid-19 presents new, significant challenge in banks' effort to reduce NPLs
EconomyBankingtheir portfolios for the scheme and Eurobank was the first one to make the formal request. However, even... in the report the need to work on other systemic solutions, like the one proposed by the BoG that uses deferred... half of SME loans. One of the sectors in the economy that immediately felt the impact
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