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From nice story to pulped fiction: Carney delivers reality check on rules-based order
Agorahas rightly attracted significant attention. It offered the crisp, crystallised analysis of global...: Hard Times in the 21st Century, which argues that the West has entered an era of overlapping... - has merely stripped away the last illusions about the forces shaping global developments
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Newsletter 271 -30/10/2020
with the upcoming emergency EU summit on Thursday on the subject of the pandemic. A political row has... challenges has been how to reposition himself and his party politically so that they can appear... Democracy last summer out of frustration. Opinion polls suggest that he has made little or no progress
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Newsletter 310 - 01/10/2021
Rafale jets, taking the total it has ordered to 24. Domestically, the agreement has been greeted... fleet with modern French frigates has a national motive as it safeguards our homeland,” he said. “[But also] a European one since it strengthens our common defence industry. It also has Euro-Atlantic
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Greece stands on fault line between vicious and virtuous cycles for 2016
Agoraof the July 12 summit there has been nothing to suggest a repeat of the tension of 2015. In fact, since Tsipras signed the agreement he has paid over 4 billion euros to the IMF and nobody seems to have noticed. Not only did he emerge victorious from the September election, his new government has
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Credit contraction decelerates to 0.9 pct in April, net additions climb to 659 mln
EconomyMacroeconomyhas prevailed in the Greek banking market. The loan balance has dropped by more than 25 percent amid... this 6-year period has been posted by consumer credit (-30.8 percent), followed by housing (-24.7.... The positive flow in April is almost entirely attributed to corporate sector net additions of 763
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Newsletter 269 -16/10/2020
on Turkey by crossing what Ankara has described as a “red line”. The government was quick to rebuff... at a time of its choosing. The response underlines the position that the government has carved out.... On the domestic scene, Mitsotakis’s failure to persuade the EU to announce sanctions at the previous summit has
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Is Regling right to be concerned about Greek liquidity?
Agoramonths, highlighting that Greece has debt servicing obligations of about 4 billion euros over... disbursements will put pressure on its finances. This is especially the case because the first review has... in the first quarter is close to 1.5 billion euros. March has the largest IMF instalment of the year
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Cancelled leaders' meeting in US emphasises stalemate in Greek-Turkish relations
PoliticsForeign Policy”. “I emphasised that we seek good relations with Turkey. But 30 years later, the time has come.... Just two weeks ago Turkey issued a NAVTEX announcing maritime research for its vessel, Piri Reis
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So far and yet so near for Greece and eurozone after second abortive Eurogroup
PoliticsGreek Politicsat home otherwise. While the Greek government has indicated it is willing to produce primary surpluses...’s lenders appear ready to temper their demands of the new government. This moratorium gives both... in a rather vague and non-binding manner at a November 2012 meeting of eurozone finance ministers. Beyond
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Greece hopes beaches won't be empty again this summer, but vaccination numbers say otherwise
AgoraGreece’s Covid-19 vaccination strategy has been closely aligned with the coordinated EU approach. This has guided the mix of vaccines acquired, the rate of delivery and the policy guidance on administration, while the roll-out process has been perhaps surprisingly smooth and free from controversy
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