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Greek crisis redux? Not exactly
Agora. Is it a Greek Crisis Redux? Not exactly. The Greek economy is not the loose cannon it was back in 2010.... Back then the narrative was about a sick little country threatening to tarnish a healthy Union. Today
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In survival bid, coalition seeks to ease taxpayer burden, secure early bailout exit
PoliticsGreek Politicsof winning back some of the support it has lost in recent months. It is doubtful, though... Samaras and Venizelos further ammunition as they seek to convince 180 MPs to back their presidential
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How Samaras backed himself and Greece into a corner over bailout exit
Agoratwo years, keeps getting pushed back. Seeing the promise of debt relief slip away, Samaras felt he.... Its last hope is to conjure up a plan that involves giving back money it has already borrowed from
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Greek coalition left with bailout exit conditions it wanted to avoid
PoliticsGreek Politicsat the back burner – all factors that the coalition wanted to avoid for domestic reasons. Eurogroup... back to the table in the future. The latest developments will be a hard sell for the government
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Newsletter 3 - 14/11/2014
declining consumer price inflation are a reflection of falling real earnings. Holding back... internal devaluation in the Greek economy since 2009, export capacity has not improved on the back
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Newsletter 7 - 12/12/2014
to back the coalition’s candidate, former EU commissioner Stavros Dimas. However, the initial... to back Dimas. Also, those intending to vote “no” (10) among the independent MPs outnumbered the “yes
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Coalition sets bar low for presidential vote, opts for pre-election rhetoric
PoliticsGreek PoliticsMPs clearly declaring their intention to back the coalition’s candidate, Stavros Dimas. It is also... suspicions about the motivation of MPs who choose to back Dimas’s candidacy and has staunchly defended
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First Greek presidential vote to set tempo for final ballot on Dec 29
PoliticsGreek Politicsto 165 as – by our calculations – at least 14 more independent and opposition MPs could back... of any of his party MPs who want to back Dimas. There are also reports that up to six Independent
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Coalition edges towards 180 votes for president but close to exhausting resources
PoliticsGreek Politicsdeputies have stated clearly that they will not back the government’s candidate. While the coalition... to be a serious split within the party about whether it should align itself with SYRIZA or back
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Voting for brinkmanship while the real economy needs solutions
Agorain the first quarter of the New Year a déjà vu-like situation as occurred in mid-2012 when only back-to-back general elections proved decisive. Irrespective of potential outcomes and future scenarios, two
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