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  1. The challenge in Greece: Funding an emerging economic recovery
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    Agora

    quarter this year. That is indeed a significant piece of good news, all the more when considering.... After 25 consecutive quarters of negative GDP figures, dating all the way back to 2008 in the pre

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  2. Coalition warms to option of Kouvelis as president but success not guaranteed
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    , it is not definite that Kouvelis would receive the backing of all DIMAR MPs. Three of the party’s... the option of Kouvelis highlights the paucity of candidates with the necessary criteria. After all

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  3. Standoff over civil servants in Greece bears hallmarks of pre-election clash
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    A showdown that bears all the hallmarks of a pre-election clash is brewing between the government and SYRIZA over the evaluation of civil servants. The conflict has arisen from the refusal... the government’s attempt to pinpoint all the civil servants who had their fixed-term contracts

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  4. Samaras seeks vote of confidence and moment of history
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    Agora

    , are to be avoided. He needs at least a couple, but possibly all four, of the following things... had run its course, unable to free Greece of its shackles. However, if Samaras secures some or all

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  5. Greek primary cash surplus more than doubles to 2.45 bln at end of August

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    in the corresponding period last year. All gg sub-sectors continued showing a primary cash surplus in the 8-month... of the all sub-sectors. Arrears of the state budget (265 million euros), local government (345 million

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  6. Retail sales rise in July for second straight month - not seen since 2010
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    positive reading since June 2010 – all coming in 2014. The slight acceleration in July turnover growth... a double-digit growth. However, the respective MoM rises in turnover were much lower, all three showing

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  7. Percentage of Greeks at risk of poverty or social exclusion edges up to 35.7
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    Society

    . The ARP rate before all social transfers (social benefits and pensions) stands at 53.4 percent, which... years and above, the ARP rate before all social transfers stands at extremely high levels, almost 90

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  8. Greece changes banks' DTA conversion law to secure ECB/EBA approval
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    Economy

    the banks’ shareholders’ meetings either to enter or exit the framework. It is expected that all banks will enter the framework, while an exit would be meaningful when all DTC is offset by (the aggregate

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  9. Optimism and obstacles in Spain
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    Agora

    more reforms to be done and all these make a sustainable growth more difficult,” argued Zsolt Darvas... by pointing to cycles. However, for all the upbeat economic news, Spaniards have yet to reap any reward from

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  10. How Samaras backed himself and Greece into a corner over bailout exit
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    Agora

    , then, that all the key decisions taken by Samaras and his ministers since May have been those... prevailing in the Samaras camp, so it was no surprise that the next move was also all show and little

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