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Greece’s first bailout, lenders and their pledge to maintain debt exposure
EconomyProgrammeThe Wall Street Journal and El Pais published over the weekend a revealing record of the minutes... of the holdings of its SMP purchases. Out of a total of 218 billion euros, 33.9 billion were Greek government bonds. Based on BNP Paribas calculations the total Greek government debt held by the ECB and other
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Troika returning to Greece but key decisions still months away
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor the first quarter of this year. The total of almost 9 billion euros (out of 10.1 billion euros left... the funding gap for 2015 at 6.5 billion euros. Latest reports put the total figure for the three years... for the 12 months ahead. A report in the Wall Street Journal indicated that a commitment to a specific
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Papandreou's bid for new role in Greek politics far from simple task
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPapandreou’s intention to form his own party “positively” or “very positively.” A total of 90.5 percent... coalition partner looks to be on the verge of total collapse after a bid for cooperation with SYRIZA hit a brick wall on December 31. DIMAR leader Fotis Kouvelis had for some time flirted the idea of his
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Newsletter 59 - 22/01/2016
their total tax and SSC burden to more than 80 percent of their net income. A joint committee... market value. HRADF said the total value of the transaction would reach 1.5 billion, when revenues...): these were all signposts pointing towards Alexis Tsipras crashing into the wall
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Newsletter 86 - 02/09/2016
a total of almost 250 million euros, which was way in excess of what was widely expected. The process has... broadcasters and highlighting that the competition had been advertised in the Wall Street Journal... to bid at least 3 million euros and commit to employing 400 people. It is true that the total of 246
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Athens ties up prior actions, IMF hints at programme role
PoliticsGreek Politicstranche. The instalment is due to total at least 7.5 billion euros and could be as high as around 10 billion, according to reports. Most likely something extra will be added to the total so... a programme “in principle.” The Wall Street Journal also reported that there is some concern among Fund
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Newsletter 127 - 14/07/2017
the markets. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, Bank of Greece governor Yannis... of NPE performance. The former is defined as the flow of NPEs turning into performing over total NPEs and the latter as the flow of performing turning into NPEs over total performing exposures. The cure
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Personal responsibility and public healthcare: Greece on a wing and a prayer
Agora. This was underscored in a recent Wall Street Journal article on the different approaches to the virus in Italy... rate, with total expenditure on health rising from 14.7 billion euros (8.6 percent of GDP) in 2003... health care, lack of modern units, limited use of new technology, an almost total absence of control
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PM seeks to leave ICU controversy behind as Tsipras ups stakes with snap election call
PoliticsGreek Politicsbusinesses to the wall, in favour of large corporations. On the economic front, Mitsotakis announced... are being made, taking the total allocated to easing the impact of rising prices to 1.35 billion... refunds total 3.5 billion. The deferral of their repayment entails a benefit of close to 300
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Greece and the euro: The flight of Icarus
Agora. When one considers that Greece accounts for less than 4 percent of the eurozone’s total debt or GDP... hit a brick wall. It lacked the conviction to make the tough changes in the public sector, to make
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