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  1. Is Democratic Left set to make a shock return to Greece's coalition?
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    but was never rubber stamped and implemented. The coalition, he said, acted like a one-party government rather than a three-party one. “Given the policy that was followed and our disagreement with it, but also... called soon would leave DIMAR facing the possibility of not entering Parliament. That’s one key

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  2. Debt relief or debt restructuring for Greece?

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    . Against the background of this structural transition in Greece’s sovereign debt profile one has... to make eight biannual instalments between 2018 and 2021 instead of having to make a full, one-off... arrears during 2000-10. One stakeholder affected by this is pharmacists and pharmaceutical companies

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  3. What would Willy do?

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    1979 in the European Parliament) One hundred years ago, on 18 December 1913, the former German.... One of Brandt's success strategies was "to rearrange the scene" (he quoted this always in English... narrow austerity policy on the one hand, and the continued consideration of vested interests

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  4. Greece in 2014: The risks and opportunities of moving forward

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    , at the height of the global financial crisis Latvia’s GDP shrank within one year by almost 18 percent..., when emphasising the achievement as unprecedented one has to bear in mind that the point of departure... the primary surplus achievement. It is but one element in a larger basket of economic and fiscal

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  5. Key Greek election date firms up; turnout could prove crucial

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    The date for what is certain to prove one of this year’s watershed moments has been set... one group. Speaking at a meeting of the party’s central committee on Saturday, SYRIZA leader Alexis... that the European Parliament vote is the one that could make or break his party’s short- to medium-term

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  6. Troika inquiry: talk to the organ grinder, not the monkey

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    . Because the one-sided answers that Europe’s dominant powers have given will haunt the eurozone’s... foreign credit. (The one place that doesn’t quite fit this story is Italy, which avoided a credit... stops” in Europe. Capital turned and fled for home, cutting off liquidity for one periphery country

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  7. Should Greece really ask for a debt haircut?

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    and that a haircut might not be an ideal solution. One good reason for a writedown of Greek public debt... and a big, expensive and above all unproductive public sector. If one takes into account these two... and youth unemployment rose to 61.4 percent. The picture is even darker when one considers

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  8. Cooperatives on Cyprus: Why they were treated differently to banks
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    No country in an island in today’s integrated world. Thus, the lessons learned in one place can... in the USA has lessons for Cyprus and parallels to what happened on the island. One of the issues... is immensely respected in Cyprus, and some consider him to be one of the reasons that the Hellenic Bank

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  9. No victory, just plenty of misery

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    mean having to wipe out a 24-billion-euro deficit and balance the budget in one fell swoop rather than... 30 percent and have one in three living in material deprivation. This economic and social... the limits of the “financial envelope” provided by its lenders. No one else in the developed world

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  10. SYRIZA leads in most age groups, professions but coalition parties dominant among pensioners
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    one considers that there are roughly 2.6 million pensioners in Greece out of an electorate of 9.9 million, it is clear that retirees are one of the most crucial constituencies of voters. New Democracy... versus 11.5 for New Democracy and 6.3 percent for Elia. This is a dramatic turnaround if one

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