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  1. Greece's 2009 deficit makes for a good conspiracy; shame about the numbers

    Agora

    Greece’s 2009 deficit figures in order to lead the country into the first eurozone... went bust because its 2009 fiscal figures had been inflated by dark forces that wanted to put... Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis lost control of all fiscal order very early in 2009 and, taking

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  2. Tsipras seeks assurances that coalition will remain united for time being
    Photo by Panayotis Tzamaros/Fosphotos

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    , the message that Tsipras wanted to send was one of unity, even if that togetherness is a product of political... Agreement is tabled in Parliament. Law and order While the cabinet meeting was taking place, New... weakness on the law and order front. He visited on Tuesday a police station in Omonia, central

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  3. PM to oversee tweaks to tax bill as constitutional revision enters final round

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    to being required to spend 30 percent of their income electronically in order to qualify for the tax... might introduce some exemptions to the e-receipts scheme in order to appease taxpayers. Monday also... at the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB). New Democracy had wanted to send a clear

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

    of this recovery. Scraping together new funding resources and instruments remains the order of the day... to highlight them in order to spoil the part; quite the contrary in fact. Any evidence of economic recovery... lending? The provision of adequate funding remains essential in order to make the emerging economic

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  5. Newsletter 6 - 5/12/2014

    Newsletters

    . It is not yet clear The government needs to decide which lane to take in order to exit the programme... government wanted to end its current relationship with the IMF. However, the email sent... in order to elect a president and avoid early elections. The term refers to the decision in 1965

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  6. The ECB's strict rules apply if you dare not comply
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    Agora

    wanted to get across was that the ECB is a “rule-based organization.” The ECB chief must have... collateral to the ECB in order to be financed in order to buy the sovereign debt of that country, and we

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  7. Tsipras and the IMF: Another miscalculation?
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    Agora

    economic disasters, it was difficult to work out what Tsipras wanted to achieve by reading... the debt relief that the IMF thinks is required in order to stay on board. Thomsen appears surprised... delaying tactics. It is no secret that the IMF, and Thomsen in particular, think that in order for Greece

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  8. Newsletter 95 - 11/11/2016

    Newsletters

    to complete the review, which seems like a tall order, especially given the arrival of new ministers. Once... is changing because they have been lulled by the warm glow of the liberal democratic order... the EU, defending the idea of the UK being part of it became a task no British politician wanted

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  9. Greece gets bigger tranche from Eurogroup but Tsipras misses other key targets
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    billion euros in loans but fell short of giving the International Monetary Fund the clarity it wanted on debt relief measures in order to immediately join the Greek programme with new funding. Greece’s... proposal regarding a mechanism that would link debt relief to growth. “In order to take into account

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  10. Survey reveals working lives, job-finding trends of young Greeks
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    Society

    percent said that they wanted to work rather than study, 13.2 percent were put off by the difficulty.... Among those who were unemployed, 54.1 percent were willing to change locations in order to work... or to commute for longer than 1 hour in order to start working.

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