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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

    Agora

    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. Bulgaria's Covid-19 vaccination fiasco: excessive risks, mediocre results
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    Agora

    /BioNTech, Moderna and CureVac. This type of vaccine is based on a breakthrough technology “[that] had... allocation “seems” more balanced with 33% allocated to each type of vaccine. However, on an EU-wide level... of AstraZeneca Bulgaria is Zoya Paunova, one of the founders of Borissov’s GERB party who is also

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  5. 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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  6. Back from the brink: What next for Greece's property market?
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    EconomyFeatures

    in urban areas. The figure for 2007 was 4.6 percent, for 2006 12.2 percent and for 2005 10.9 percent... news was that US investment fund Fortress was in talks to take on a 90 million euro bank loan from

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  7. Mitsotakis hints at post-election policy tweaks to address economic concerns
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    is a cap on the number of days a year that homes can be let on Airbnb-type platforms in areas like

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  8. Athens "Great Walk" plan scaled back amid criticism
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    a bitter taste in the mouth of Athenians for any future exercise of this type. If recent history is any... drastically following a slew of criticism from the public and some urban planners. The “Great Walk” which was launched by Mayor Kostas Bakoyannis in May as a major urban intervention initially enjoyed

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  9. Newsletter 64 - 26/02/2016

    Newsletters

    . Similar incidents have taken place in other European countries but this type of symbolism has been largely alien to Greece until now. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras described it as a Ku Klux Klan-type... to the limit Now that the refugee crisis has started to move to urban areas, the potential for political

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  10. Volunteers try to fill void left by retreating Greek state
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    Society

    . This type of volunteerism is a relatively new concept in Greece, which has a poor record of this kind... and its ever-decreasing role in a number of areas, such as social welfare, healthcare and urban... in Greece due to cases of corruption, while some forms of activism, such as urban intervention, have

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