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  1. China's Footprint in Southeast Europe: Constructing the "Balkan Silk Road"
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    Agora

    concessional lending opportunities. Many of these Chinese companies suffer from heavy indebtedness... numerous policy challenges for countries engaging in or seeking to benefit from its implementation... railway links (e.g. Moscow – Kazan), providing lending to Russian banks and engaging

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  2. Special tax structure would benefit hotels and jobs, bank argues
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    EconomyFeatures

    in recent years, heavy taxation, especially VAT, remains a problem. In October 2015, a new rate of hotel VAT... hotel buildings that have not been used before. In the case of a transfer, a 2.4 percent stamp duty... duty, etc) may be due for the foreign investor. Greece’s hotel industry has been voicing concern

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  3. Questions linger following PM's statement on surveillance of political rival

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    in further revelations which would deal a heavy blow to the government’s credibility, already... willingness to investigate Predator and its Greek vendor Intellexa. There is also reason to be sceptical

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  4. Tsipras seeks assurances that coalition will remain united for time being
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    in a protest by policeman outside the precinct. “It is the state’s duty to safeguard citizens’ security... the government’s opportunity of winning back some of the support it has lost over the previous years by engaging

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  5. Tsipras stakes claim for election win despite discouraging poll data
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    , Androulakis could at least justify a coalition with the conservatives by arguing that PASOK has a duty... that the SYRIZA leader was engaging in “Tsipranomics” – the kind of economic policies that voters rejected

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  6. Mitsotakis ups stakes in clash with opposition and internal rivals
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    of duty by a special court, which handed him a suspended sentence. The PM’s action was seen... with regard to Greek-Turkish relations. The same sources went on to describe Athens as engaging

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  7. First bond of 2022 attracts fewer offers, more than double last year's yield at 1.83 pct
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    Economy

    euros, with a coupon of 1.75 pct and a final reoffer yield of 1.836 pct, with 140 basis points over... euros with a final reoffer yield of 1.836 pct. The issue was 5x oversubscribed. The transaction had... a reoffer yield of just 0.807 pct and spread of the German DBR of 135.5 bps. The issue had also attracted

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  8. Foreign minister's visit to Ankara sparks hope of new era in Greek-Turkish ties
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    Davutoğlu as well as with Erdogan even though both men currently have heavy schedule as Turkey heads... dispute over territorial borders in the Aegean, with warplanes from both sides regularly engaging in mock

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  9. Survey shows 42 pct of Greek expats unlikely to return
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    Society

    ). Greece’s brain drain comes at a heavy price to the economy. In the countries they end up... enough in engaging its highly talented diaspora, rather than considering a lost generation. It cited

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  10. Anniversary of Polytechnic uprising unites left against ND clampdown on gatherings
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    heavy police presence. The dispute has been a source of puzzlement for most observers, since all..., the spectacle of political leaders engaging in a debate of little practical consequence and questionable

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