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Budget deficit of 6.38 bln in Aug confirmed; target beaten due to one offs
EconomyMacroeconomyThe budget primary balance was confirmed at a deficit of 6.38 billion euros in the first eight months of 2021, compared with a deficit of 5.48 billion in the same period last year, the final Finance Ministry (MoF) budget execution data showed on Monday....
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VAT and income taxes buoy revenue performance as primary surplus target is beaten in Sep
EconomyMacroeconomyThe budget primary balance in September was confirmed at a surplus of almost 6 billion euros, compared to a surplus of 52 million euros in the same month of 2022, according to the final Finance Ministry (MoF) budget execution data released on Wednesday....
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Newsletter 49 - 30/10/2015
of the reasons that Alexis Tsipras wanted to hold elections as soon as possible after agreeing the third... most testing period could be in the next few months, when the financial obligations that he wanted... euros will enjoy protection. If this is implemented, it could have a dramatic effect on Greeks
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Now comes the really hard part
AgoraOne of the main reasons that Alexis Tsipras wanted to hold elections as soon as possible after... that he wanted to beat to the punch start hitting home. It is estimated that the changes to VAT... at less than 120,000 euros will enjoy protection. If this is implemented, it could have a dramatic effect
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Parties locked in tug of war over troubled universities
Societyto power of the SYRIZA-ANEL coalition in 2015, the official unwinding of the Diamantopoulou law began.... These grim statistics are partly the result of the chilling effect of the crisis on employment... a very strong wind of change to effect lasting reform of the Greek university system. Passing
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In hindsight it would have been nicer
Agoraon the 5th of June after its contents were leaked by the Wall Street Journal's Matina Stevis, the IMF openly... in the core of the eurozone. In effect, as the IMF describes in various places in its evaluation
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Why did Greece return to bond markets now? Was it the right decision?
Economypercent, banks for 14 percent and pension and insurance funds for 4 percent. The Wall Street.... There could also be a positive subsidiary effect for Greek corporates through a potential sharper
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Samaras seeks vote of confidence and moment of history
AgoraPop quiz: When was the last time Greece held elections at the end of the government’s four-year term? It was in 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell, F.W. de Klerk started dismantling apartheid...? This time, Samaras is hoping for the opposite effect. By winning the ballot, the prime minister
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Newsletter 8 - 19/12/2014
at it,” wrote the Wall Street Journal in an editorial this week after the prospect of snap elections in Greece stirred concern across the continent. The other damaging knock-on effect from the comments by EU
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A little more persuasion, a little less reaction
Agora, European leaders got better at it,” wrote the Wall Street Journal in an editorial this week after...-on effect from the comments by EU officials is that it feeds into the frenzied atmosphere within
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