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Budget primary deficit at 1.47 bln euros in Jan, revenue shortfall hits 812 mln
EconomyMacroeconomybillion euros. Net revenues came to 3.85 billion euros, below target by 812 million euros... a deficit of 782 million euros for the month.
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Tsipras pitch for progressive opposition presents New Democracy with new adversary
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe institutional checks and balances against abuses of power and to resist far-right rhetoric... governing in partnership with the far-right. Other New Democracy politicians were even more dismissive... nonsense”. New Democracy considers Tsipras a familiar adversary given his relatively recent track record
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Rise in overdue contributions slows to 310 mln in Q3, total at 16.9 bln
EconomyMacroeconomyThe rise in unpaid social security contributions (SSCs) slowed quarter on quarter (QoQ) to 310 million euros in Q3 of 2016, from 831 million in Q2. The outstanding amount reaching 16.92 billion, the quarterly bulletin of the single SSC collection centre (KEAO) displayed on Monday. The increase
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Saving Angela Merkel with the help of Alexis Tsipras
Agorafar stipulates that the governments in Madrid and Athens have explicitly approved the return.... But his diplomatic success in Brussels underscores that your one-time political adversary may indeed... interior minister – Horst Seehofer – from the junior coalition partner CSU had threatened
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Mitsotakis starts second term, prepares to name cabinet and launch reforms amid far-right rise
PoliticsGreek Politicsof far-right Spartiates (Spartans), ultra-religious Niki and populist Plefsi Eleftherias (Course... voters from the far-right parties.... with responsibility of overseeing the government’s role in Parliament. Former Interior Minister Makis Voridis
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Budget primary confirmed at deficit of 1.47 bln in Jan as taxes dwindle
EconomyMacroeconomy. Net revenues came to 3.85 billion euros, below target by 812 million euros. The monthly primary... a deficit of 782 million euros for the month.
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ND moves to discredit SYRIZA programme, muses over far-right alliance
PoliticsGreek Politicsamounts to 9.35 billion of spending and 3.74 billion of revenues. The figures are not far off ND’s... with the small far-right Greek Solution party. This prospect was always on the cards given the recent... LAOS, the far-right party where Greek Solution leader Kyriakos Velopolos also started his political
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New Democracy moves to corral far-right vote, as PM braces for more surveillance evidence
PoliticsGreek PoliticsConstantine has been attacked by opposition parties who see it as a play for the far-right vote... to court the votes of traditionalists and far-right elements. After initially stating that the former... gia tin Patrida” (Greeks for the Motherland), has been one of a handful of far-right fringe parties
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Move to block far-right fuels conflict between ND and SYRIZA
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe right to bar far-right Ellines (Greeks) from participating in the upcoming elections, although... like Ellines. ND has long accused the left-wing party of intentionally toying with the far-right...-wing voters that New Democracy can attract. This stretches as far back as 2011, when there were several
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Spotlight on far-right party that might upset election arithmetic
PoliticsGreek PoliticsWith opinion polls failing to predict a clear-cut result in May’s elections, attention has turned to the leadership manoeuvrings of the new far right party Ellines (Greeks), whose entry...-minute amendment in an Interior Ministry bill prompted accusations that the government was trying
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