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Eurozone jobless rate

09 Jan 2017

Eurozone jobless rate holds on to post-crisis low

The eurozone jobless rate held at the lowest level in some seven years in November as a modest economic upturn continues, official data showed on Monday.

08 Dec 2015

Greece needs debt relief to combat crisis: UN expert

Greece needs debt relief from its international creditors to combat its dual economic and refugee crises, a UN expert said Tuesday.

28 Aug 2015

Greek economy grew by 0.9% in Q2

Greece`s economy grew by 0.9 percent in the second quarter, official date showed Friday, improving on the 0.8 percent figure reported in a flash estimate earlier in August.

26 Aug 2015

Greek privatisations to go ahead: outgoing economy minister

"The agreed arrangements have been agreed and will be applied," Georges Stathakis told reporters in answer to a question on the planned privatisation of Piraeus port, the national railway company and a string of other ports and airports.

13 Aug 2015

Greek economy grew 0.8% in Q2, averted recession in Q1

The figures showed second quarter growth up 1.4 per cent compared to the same period the previous year.

12 Aug 2015

Greece will tumble back into deep recession in 2015: EU

The Greek economy, which crawled out of a six-year recession only in 2014, will shrink 2.3 percent in 2015 and another 1.3 percent in 2016, the sources said.

11 Aug 2015

Greece's third bailout agreed 'in principle'

"What we don't have is a political agreement," said Commission spokeswoman Annika Breidthardt, hours after Athens suggested that the deal was all but done.

05 Aug 2015

''Greek economy to be one third smaller than at peak level''

A leading economic think tank on Wednesday forecast that Greece`s GDP will shrink this year by three percent and 2.3 percent next year. Thus it will eventually be nearly a third smaller than it was at its peak.

03 Aug 2015

Greek stocks plunge 22% as bourse reopens

The country`s main banks took a heavy blow at the opening with drops of around 30 percent.

03 Aug 2015

Greeks brace for stock market carnage after five-week shutdown

Trading on the Athens bourse was suspended in late June as part of capital controls imposed to stem a debilitating outflow of euros that threatened to collapse Greece`s banks and hurl the indebted country out of the euro zone.

26 Jul 2015

Greece bailout talks to start on Monday

Meetings with officials from the European Commission, European Central Bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which had been expected to begin on Friday, were delayed by logistical issues, including the location of talks and security.

26 Jul 2015

Greece bailout talks to start on Monday

Meetings with officials from the European Commission, European Central Bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which had been expected to begin on Friday, were delayed by logistical issues, including the location of talks and security.

22 Jul 2015

Greece to vote on second bailout bill in test for Tsipras

Greek lawmakers are on Wednesday set to vote on a second batch of reforms that must pass if Athens is to receive its third huge international bailout, in a key test of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras` authority.

19 Jul 2015

More than half of Germans think planned Greek deal is bad: Poll

Lawmakers in Germany, the biggest contributor to euro zone bailouts, on Friday gave their go-ahead for the currency bloc to negotiate a third bailout for Greece that could total 86 billion euros ($93 billion) over three years.

Greek government

15 Jul 2015

Greek government suffers defections as austerity vote looms

The vote will almost certainly see large numbers of Syriza lawmakers dissent and vote against the package, raising questions of the government's survival in its current form.

12 Jul 2015

Euro zone summit aims to keep Greece in single currency

In return, leftist Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will be required to enact key legislation in parliament on Monday to start restoring the broken trust of his partners in the 19-nation currency union to win a third bailout, ministers said.

12 Jul 2015

EU scraps Greece summit with bailout deal on knife-edge

The EU cancelled a full 28-nation summit on Sunday to decide whether Greece stays in the European single currency as a divided eurozone struggled to reach a reform-for-bailout deal.

12 Jul 2015

EU cancels summit on Greece as eurozone talks continue

"I have cancelled EUCO (the European Union summit) today," European Council President Donald Tusk said in a tweet.

10 Jul 2015

Overwhelming majority of Greeks want to keep euro, poll shows

The poll by Metron Analysis for Parapolitika newspaper showed that although the overwhelming majority of those polled want to remain in the single currency, 55 percent said it was the right choice to vote `No` in last weekend`s referendum on tough austerity measures.

10 Jul 2015

Overwhelming majority of Greeks want to keep euro, poll shows

A total of 84 percent of Greeks want to keep the euro, an opinion poll released on Friday showed, with just 12 percent favouring a return to the drachma, as the country races to clinch a cash-for-reforms deal with its creditors.

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