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DIMAR faces struggle to survive in 2014, a year of elections
PoliticsGreek Politicsto enter Parliament and less than half what the 6.2 percent the party won in the June 2012 elections... trying to get its bearings and decide whether it favours being a potential coalition partner for SYRIZA..., however, is deeper than just a disagreement between these two men. A wing of the party known
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Preparations for local elections expose SYRIZA weakness
PoliticsGreek Politicspolitics, which tend to be community- rather than nation-driven. On Friday, New Democracy MP Yiannis... of Thessalonik rather than the governorhsip. This week’s events underline how much more complicated Greek politics could get as May’s elections approach.
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Spain’s economic recovery languishes amid graft scandals
Agorathe 0.5 percent rate calculated by the European Commission but lower than the 1 percent estimated... percent in the last quarter of the year. That is Rajoy’s trump card. He trusts that he can get Spaniards.... According to the European Commission’s economic forecasts, Spain’s deficit won’t be lower than 6 percent
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Greece's ultimate sacrifice for stability
Agorawanted to pass a law that would see courts hand migrants sentences that were 50 percent longer than... a phone call to the right person could get a probe started or a case dropped. This contempt for one... Greece has lost much, much more than a quarter of its GDP and a million jobs. Nick Malkoutzis
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New Democracy and SYRIZA neck and neck for EP vote but PASOK adrift
PoliticsGreek Politicsand whether SYRIZA will get the springboard it wants to push for snap general elections, it is becoming... showing in polls could be attributed to its unfamiliarity is now over. With less than three weeks... that if the Olive Tree gets less than 10 percent in the European elections, this would create “a problem
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Central gov't cash deficit shrinks to 1.27 bln in April
EconomyMacroeconomyto 1.27 billion euros, 4 billion lower than a year earlier, according to the Bank of Greece (BoG... at 15.88 billion, 241 million lower than BoG number. Interest payments on a cash basis rose 3.7 percent... to the MoF's methodology, we get an adjusted 4-month primary surplus of 574 million in comparison
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Is post-election just pre-election in Greece?
Agoraof pharmacies. The list is longer than these few examples. This is the to-do agenda that the regular... policy makers towards Greece, but possibly in other ways than assumed in Athens. Most importantly.... Furthermore, the issues on the table do not get any easier once the review mission is completed
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With prior actions pending, PASOK showing signs of adjustment fatigue
PoliticsGreek Politicshad to complete six tasks to receive the June instalment of 1 billion euros and another six to get 1... will be dismissed. The difference between the two ministers is less than 400 employees. Loverdos, backed... employees placed in the mobility scheme last year but Mitsotakis insists that no more than 500 should
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Central gov't primary cash surplus reaches 1.37 billion in first half of year
EconomyMacroeconomyat 23.67 billion euros, 236 million higher than the BoG underlying item. Interest payments on a cash basis dropped 11.9 percent to 3.17 billion euros, 1 percent higher than the budget figure. The 6-month..., we get an adjusted 6-month figure of 833 million euros, which is 121 million above the 712 million
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How many NPLs in the Greek banking sector are also non-recoverable loans ?
Agorauninterrupted in Greece for more than three years. The manner in which they are reported in quarterly... (more than six months) with their repayment obligations (interest and principal). Banks’ efforts... illumination. As the European Central Bank’s combined asset quality review and stress tests get
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