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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. 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. Mitsotakis targets working class votes, centre-left struggles with leadership race
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    in the working class neighbourhood of Nikaia, near Piraeus, on Sunday. ND spokesman Vassilis Kikilias said... and underemployment. The topic of this party event in Nikaia will be employment. Mitsotakis used his recent

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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. High unemployment, falling wages damaged sustainability of largest Greek pension fund
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    fund has lost a cumulative amoung of 16.5 billion in the 2010-14 period. In addition, this is a result

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  10. Storm fallout sweeps PM to crucial juncture early in second term

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    in Thessaly as only four of the 12 Super Pumas that Greece possesses are in a condition to fly

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