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First visit by quadriga to Athens leaves series of issues unresolved
EconomyProgramme. Labour Minister Giorgos Katrougalos presented to the quadriga the key pillars and measures...The first visit of the quadriga mission chiefs to Athens after the signing of the third bailout... forecasts, with the quadriga aligning its estimates with the Greek government’s, which points to a milder
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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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Newsletter 291 - 02/04/2021
for more than a day before they could be placed in an ICU bed. The public appear divided... February 2020. However, Markit noted that the rate of expansion was only marginal, and slower than... in the form of grants, 6 billion euros will be given over to the Green Transition – one of four pillars
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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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Growing hopes that Greek recession will be milder than expected
Economyrecession will be milder than the country’s lenders expectations in mid-August. In a positive... (+0.1 percent), more than offsetting a sharp drop in investments (-10.6 percent). The provisional... statements they expect a softer GDP contraction this year. Their predictions for a better-than-expected
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Impact of EP elections continues to reverberate across main parties
PoliticsGreek Politicsin the June 9 elections, where it garnered just 28.3 percent of the vote rather than the goal of 33 percent... 15 percent of the vote rather than the 20 percent he had said he aspired to. The tone of the posts...” from his predecessors and would prefer to rationalise spending rather than seek bank loans or dark
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Philip Roth's words of caution
Agorathat the transformation has sincerity and longevity, rather than being a political stunt to gain broader acceptance... story to hearing a prominent rabbi deliver a speech in favour of Lindbergh’s candidacy: “What the hell... to the goyim – he’s giving the goyim all over the country his personal rabbi’s permission to vote
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PM trails national recovery plan ahead, talks up growth prospects
PoliticsGreek Politicsto growth and create 200,000 new jobs. The plan consists of more than 160 actions which include construction works, investments and reforms spread across Greece, based on four main pillars: digital... (Movement for Change) accused Mitsotakis of proceeding without the most basic national dialogue, while
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General gov't cash surplus rises to 3.54 bln at end of Feb, more than double last year
EconomyMacroeconomyThe Greek general government (gg) primary cash surplus in the first two months of 2014 more than doubled to 3.54 billion from 1.45 billion last year, according to the gg bulletin released... of guarantees is related to the bank support scheme (the two liquidity pillars introduced in 2009
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Newsletter 49 - 30/10/2015
reports claim that the quadriga’s proposal would protect less than one-fifth of indebted households...Three pending issues Government and quadriga have yet to agree on some prior actions After the three-day trip by the quadriga mission chiefs to Athens on October 21–23, the first visit since
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