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Lenders appear at ease with Tsipras pledges, cautious on pension cuts
EconomyProgrammeinsists that the 3.5 percent of GDP target will be beaten. The visiting experts have also... goal of avoiding next year’s cuts will founder on opposition from Germany and other eurozone member
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Promises and challenges of Greece's "green new deal"
EconomyFeaturesto implement a transition to clean energy comes from the EU, which requires all member states to submit... Democracy government to speed up “de-lignitisation” - though it no doubt also saw an opportunity to put... to be systematically incentivised after 2001, and the ensuing decade saw a rapid growth in the installation
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Newsletter 65 - 04/03/2016
is suffering a terrible lack of solidarity by a lot of European member states,” he said, arguing... saw last year how Greece’s state machinery seized up as the government focussed solely... in a member state that cannot fend for itself, let alone thousands of new arrivals? Or are they anxious
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Newsletter 33 - 03/07/2015
that their activities were either subdued or suspended for the bank holiday period. Supermarkets saw a large number... as a eurozone member is in payment default with an international creditor and the government... in Athens are at risk of defaulting to a second international creditor and member of the troika
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Greece and the euro: The flight of Icarus
Agora, as some of the people in the audience today will know very well. Greece saw joining the euro as part... meant structural factors were overlooked. A period of belt-tightening before euro entry saw Greece’s... are without a job and have diminishing prospects of finding one. Over the last three years, salaries have
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Athens prepares new primary residences proposal after finding common ground with banks
EconomyProgrammeThe Greek government and local banks are reportedly making progress in their discussions about how to replace the Katseli law, which expires at the end of the month, with a new framework for protecting primary residences from foreclosure. The two sides ...
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Facing accusations of authoritarianism, Tsipras spells out softer future vision in member Q&A
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAfter another testy meeting of SYRIZA officials over the weekend which gave fodder to political rivals inside and out of the party, leader Alexis Tsipras has taken the opportunity to deliver a more constructive message by addressing the party’s new memb...
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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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