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  1. Budget primary shows deficit of 7.01 bln in September
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    The budget primary balance recorded a deficit of 7.01 billion euros in the first nine months of 2020, compared to a surplus of 4.47 billion noted in September 2019, the final Finance Ministry (MoF... during the first nine months of the year. Personal income tax (PIT) was below target by 763 million

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  2. Podcast - Long live the revolution: The legacy of Greece's 1821 war of independence

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    Greece 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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  3. General govt primary cash deficit at 7.01 bln in Sept, arrears up by 113 mln
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    Greece’s general government (gg) primary cash deficit came to 7.01 billion euros in the first nine months of the year compared to a surplus of 4.53 billion in the same period last year, according... at a deficit of 7.01 billion euros. The budget primary balance for the same time last year came

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  4. Budget primary shows deficit of 7.01 bln as revenues suffer in September

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    The budget primary balance recorded a deficit of 7.01 billion euros in the first nine months of 2020, compared to a surplus of 4.47 billion noted in September 2019, the preliminary Finance Ministry (MoF) budget execution bulletin for September showed on Thursday. The primary surplus was below its

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  5. Kasselakis offers more hints of a positive narrative for SYRIZA's post-Tsipras era
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    of Tsipras’s record in government, offending some of the party’s old guard. In the course

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  6. Putting right everything that went wrong in Mati

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    and the sea. Some survivors claim it took several hours for them to be hauled to safety by the coast guard... be advisable for Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to stop his government from digging a deeper hole for itself

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  7. Despite ongoing row with SYRIZA, Kammenos not preparing for early departure
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    going through. This comment hints at the other reason that no early divorce between SYRIZA and ANEL... for settling the Macedonia name issue and offering a number of military bases for use by US forces. Some

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  8. We can't ignore population shifts within the European Union
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    that coercive population policies or imposing social and medical choices should be avoided to guard against... political system. Assumptions about convergence or solidarity (from outside) are unsound bases

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  9. Greece gets new finance minister but old guard dominates cabinet reshuffle
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    Ending days of speculation, the new Greek cabinet was named on Monday, with Eurobank economist Gikas Hardouvelis being appointed Yannis Stournaras’s successor at the Finance Ministry. Hardouvelis’s appointment was by far the most notable. There was no c...

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  10. Erdogan makes forceful start to visit, catches Athens off guard
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    The Greek government found itself in an uncomfortable position on Thursday, the first day of a visit by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who called for the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne, which delimited the boundaries between the two countries, to be r...

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