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Complex privatisation fund faces tall order to reduce Greek debt
EconomyOn top of the fiscal measures yielding 3 percent of GDP by 2018, one of the key prior actions for the conclusion of Greece’s first programme involves the establishment of a new privatisation fund. This was envisaged in the Eurozone Summit statement of l...
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Officials order wider use of masks as upward trend for Covid-19 cases continues
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe use of face masks for debates in Parliament became compulsory on Wednesday as Greek authorities try to re-instill a sense of caution in the public after seeing the number of coronavirus cases rise significantly this week. The decision to make MPs an...
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Newsletter 62 - 12/02/2016
and underlining the good cooperation among all parties. However, as Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem..., though, was his statement that in order to achieve a medium-term primary surplus target of 3.5 percent of GDP, Greece needs to take measures in the order of some 4–5 percent of GDP (up to 8.8 billion
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The unbearably slow vaccination process in Croatia
Agoravaccination are "significantly less delivery of vaccines than promised" because "all manufacturers failed... with deliveries to the European Union. And Croatia, like all other member states, except Hungary, has agreed... not fully explain why most other EU countries - more precisely all but Latvia, Bulgaria and Finland
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Newsletter 65 - 04/03/2016
All eyes on Eurogroup Fiscal gap differences remain but IMF expects mission to return soon During... over dinner in Brussels between all institutions on Wednesday that aimed at reaching common ground on Greece’s fiscal gap by 2018. Meanwhile, the EC confirmed that technical teams from all
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Greece targets seat on UN Security Council as North Macedonia row rumbles on
PoliticsForeign Policyto be heard as well as all the like-minded countries.” The two men also discussed the wars in Ukraine.... For Greece, “this proposal should be accepted. We will all work towards this direction... bilaterally and multilaterally, within the framework of international organizations. All forms of aggression
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Somewhere in the middle: Kosovo's delicate relations with the European Union
Agoraand delicate approach, in order to accommodate both the stance of the majority of its members and 5 non... may take measures it deems appropriate, including suspending all or part of this Agreement”, which... it was hailed as a ‘confirmation of Kosovo’s EU perspective.’ In order to streamline
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Greece and the euro: The flight of Icarus
Agoraduring this crisis has been of the highest order, providing insight into a complex problem, but some... version of what has happened in Greece in order to support their preconceived ideas about fiscal.... Competing with the likes of a resurgent German economy meant it had to be competitive on all levels
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Newsletter 329 - 25/02/2022
morning overshadowed all other activity on the Greek political scene as the government in Athens aligned... to Moscow’s actions. "Greece respects the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of all... scenario would see all access to Russian gas interrupted. Contingency plans are thought to involve
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Can the Green Transition be just?
Agora, namely, to reach a point where greenhouse gas emissions from all sectors of the economy are fully offset... that are necessary to reach a zero carbon footprint by 2050 -across all sectors of the economy- without.... A transition that is both green and just for all: is this wishful thinking or a realistically
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