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Honey, I shrunk the Greeks
Agorawas demonized and ridiculed as conspiratorial in spite of the fact that one never needed to look further than... fewer than 9 billion euros. Meanwhile, the troika financed a primary deficit of 10.9 billion in 2010... the debt restructuring was put on the table, vast majority of the eurozone and the IMF’s financing
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Greek centre-left in search of new roots with own Olive Tree alliance
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat the Greek version will also grow into a significant force. The proclamation has not been put... next year. If the alliance comes together before than and is able to produce a reasonable result... opinion polls) rather than the 40+ percent it accounted for in the previous two decades. So far
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Words will always hurt
Agorato appeal to the devil inside us rather than the better angels of our nature. It is a feature of Greek... using them than on their intended targets. In fact, there are few parties or politicians who emerge... our thoughts and actions. To put it another way, if those in authority continue to spout words
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Is Democratic Left set to make a shock return to Greece's coalition?
PoliticsGreek Politics” as she put it. How realistic, though, is it to expect DIMAR, which has 14 MPs, to rejoin the government... than a three-party one. “Given the policy that was followed and our disagreement with it, but also... walked out of the administration rather than support the terms of Greece’s second bailout. DIMAR’s
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The euro debate Greece is not having
Agorasuch a sacrifice. There is no gain without pain, goes the argument. However, more than three years... Greece and Germany is about 43 percent and Greece needs the euro to be 25 percent cheaper than its... exchange pain thresholds puts Germany's at 1.79 against the dollar. Simply put, Germany is in a situation
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Spain’s economic recovery languishes amid graft scandals
Agorathe 0.5 percent rate calculated by the European Commission but lower than the 1 percent estimated... government were imprisoned for belonging to a network that, as the judge put, “favored relatives.... According to the European Commission’s economic forecasts, Spain’s deficit won’t be lower than 6 percent
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What lies at the heart of differences over Greek banks' capital needs?
Economylarger than the one the BoG has reportedly arrived at. In addition, the newspaper states that senior... estimates are most likely based on the adverse rather than the baseline scenario for the domestic economy... that banks are relying on the media for clues regarding the stress test results, which put capital needs
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Greece's ultimate sacrifice for stability
AgoraDawn but this is like priding yourself on being the first to rush to put out a fire at your house... wanted to pass a law that would see courts hand migrants sentences that were 50 percent longer than... Greece has lost much, much more than a quarter of its GDP and a million jobs. Nick Malkoutzis
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Return to bond markets to buoy coalition, may leave SYRIZA floundering
![Photo by Myrto Papadopoulos [www.myrtopapadopoulos.com]](resources/toolip/img-thumb/2013/10/12/samaras_myrrto_1000_1210-medium.jpg "Photo by Myrto Papadopoulos [www.myrtopapadopoulos.com]")
PoliticsGreek Politicsas the debt reduction talks have been put off until after the European elections even though the primary... the borrowing cost is much higher than the bailout packages. Yet SYRIZA spent the last few years opposing... for snap polls later this year. SYRIZA has to aim for a better share of the vote than it received
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SYRIZA stumbles again on way to May elections
PoliticsGreek Politicsattending Greek rather than Turkish-speaking schools. The leftists replaced her with a candidate from... links with the extremist Grey Wolves. Finally, pressure has also been put on another candidate... a struggling PASOK. There are also questions about the party’s organisational capabilities given that more than
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