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Podcast - Long live the revolution: The legacy of Greece's 1821 war of independence
AgoraGreece is celebrating the 200th anniversary of its war of independence, which began in 1821 and allowed Greeks to free themselves of Ottoman rule and oppression, and form their own nation-state. To mark this occasion, we spoke to Sakis Gekas, the Hellenic Heritage Foundation (HHF) Chair of Modern
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Helped by trading gains, Eurobank posts 305 mln in Q1 profits
EconomyBankingEurobank posted an adjusted net income of 305 million euros in the first quarter of 2022 (Q1), compared to a profit of 72 million euros last year. Core pre-provision income (PPI) rose by 10.4 percent year-on-year (YoY) in Q1 to 240.4 million euros, with 62.1 million euros of loan loss provisions
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Newsletter 305 - 16/07/2021
October are thought to have exacerbated the second Covid wave in Greece. Wednesday saw the first mass
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Defence agreement, views on Turkey attract most interest during Pompeo visit
PoliticsForeign Policyand Turkey’s activities in Cyprus’s Exclusive Economic Zone. Turkey Pompeo sent what Athens saw... of the S400 which is of a particular interest for the US. Upgraded role? The debate that has begun
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Lowest income groups in Greece saw wages drop and taxes rise most during crisis
SocietyLower income groups in Greece saw their tax burden increase by 337.7 percent from 2008 to 2012... percent from 2008 to 2012, the bottom three income groups saw their earnings from wages sink the most...) was in the 5th decile while those at the top saw their wage income fall by 9.3 percent. It also finds
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More than half of small businesses saw turnover dive by at least 50 pct due to capital controls
Economyexceeding 70 percent. Overall, nine out of ten companies saw a decline in their revenues with the overall
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The year that Greece (nearly) saw it all
Agorathe eurozone many more. They saw SYRIZA come to power from virtually nowhere a few years earlier
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IMF examines where programme went wrong, what lessons were learnt
EconomyProgrammea preference for an ambitious, front-loaded adjustment, the report notes that the IMF clearly saw... and the OSI, public debt recorded a relatively modest immediate decrease to 305 billion euros (160 percent
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Greek competitiveness rank remains low as tax, bureaucracy create obstacles
EconomyFeaturescompared to where it lags. Many of the poor scores in the subpillars reflect areas where Greece’s lenders... scores were noted in the subpillars of the effect of taxation on incentives to invest (137 out
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Business leaders set out steps to attract skilled Greeks as govt offers wage subsidies
Society, which saw hundreds of thousands of young and qualified Greeks leave the country in search of better... suggestions, SEV notes the need for a systematic measuring and tracking of the brain drain
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