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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 37 - 31/07/2015
, with less than three weeks left in which the various sides should – theoretically – come to an agreement... than 12 years, since November 2003. In addition, June outflows are the third biggest since last...), the European Commission and the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), the newcomer making the quadriga, it would
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Is the cost of Greece's public sector soaring again?
EconomyFeatures. As such, they are more a reflection of the use of private contracts in the public sector than the number... Secretaries, 29 “Horizontal” Directors General, and more than 60 Sectoral Directors General. The appointees... the direct exercise of political discretion even further down the seniority scale than previously
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From the troika to the quartet
Agora), the newcomer making the quadriga, it would be Greece’s third macro-economic adjustment programme..., it is asking the European official creditors to engage in a substantial debt reduction operation towards... on the short-term repayment obligations in 2015 and 2016 to the IMF and the ECB than on the country
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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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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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