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  1. Refugee influx pushes Tsipras towards crisis nexus

    Agora

    arrived in 2014 but already this year there have been more than 400,000 arrivals. On Friday, IOM.... Housing, feeding and keeping people warm carries a much higher cost than scanning their fingerprints.... In this sense, the migration crisis may prove a greater challenge than the economic one for Tsipras

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  2. I know what you did the summer before last
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    Agora

    it as a watershed moment rather than a recurring nightmare. *You can follow Nick on Twitter: @NickMalkoutzis Nick... paradox in lambasting Tsipras for adopting the tax hikes and pension cuts attached to the latest

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  3. Tsipras faces challenge in turning promise of China trip into reality
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    that the company would invest more than 500 million euros in Piraeus over the next five years, underlining... with top executives from the Wanda Group, Huawei, COSCO, ZTE and Fosun – large companies that have

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  4. Government takes another stab at media regulation among growing scepticism
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    Society

    advance on the current figure of zero - would inevitably have far greater political symbolism than... 35 million euros – significantly less than was raised per license in the last round, but adding up... process is a considerably more low-key affair than the much-hyped auction of 2016, which the Greek Union

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  5. Tsipras fails to halt strike as domestic political battle heats up
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    rubbish collection to private firms rather than municipalities. Thessaloniki Mayor Yiannis Boutaris has said that he will look for a private contractor to take over this task. Another flashpoint between... deal with the lenders, which indicate that voters are less than enthusiastic about the government’s

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  6. Newsletter 34 - 10/07/2015

    Newsletters

    in the same period last year. This translates into a net drop in retail sales by 305 million over... reflecting domestic consumption rather than increased tourism activity. Triggered by a panic to hoard medicines rather than cover their actual needs, citizens also rushed to pharmacies, where child

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  7. IMF examines where programme went wrong, what lessons were learnt
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    EconomyProgramme

    projections, largely due to lower growth and deflators, while unemployment was much higher than originally... and the OSI, public debt recorded a relatively modest immediate decrease to 305 billion euros (160 percent... the sustainability assessment around the gross financing needs (GFN) metric rather than a specific debt

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  8. BoG reveals figures for repatriation and banknotes returning to banking system
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    EconomyBanking

    inflow of 430 million, which is lower than the respective figure of 560 million recorded in the two-year... banknotes, the monthly repatriation of funds worth 470 million over the last 17 months was more than... in the July 2015 – November 2016 period stood at 180 million, which is substantially higher than

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  9. Domestic factors seen playing role in PM's pick for European Commission

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    . Legislation landmarks The government is also proceeding with a busy legislative agenda in the final days..., journalists and public contractors. Promoting the bill, the government focussed on the automation

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  10. Alpha Bank posts net profits of 48.1 mln in Q1, Greek NPE formation turns slightly negative on write-offs
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    EconomyBanking

    for the third successive quarter. Net profits more than doubled to 48.1 million euros in Q1 from 20.1...-on-quarter (QoQ) to 305 million, mostly reflecting a drop in operating expenses following... by more than 100 million to 33.1 billion. The bank noted that Q1 deposits were positively affected

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