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Newsletter 47 - 16/10/2015
The submission to Parliament of the government’s first multi-bill since the 20 September elections has... win in the elections, as well as the settling of accounts with the party’s radical wing, there has... Democracy? Leadership race has revealed much of what is ailing conservatives The belief
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Blinken visit highlights Greece's growing role as key regional partner
PoliticsForeign Policybetween the two countries, supporting US training and operations in Souda Bay, Crete and other.... The Souda naval facility has a special significance for the US Navy located in Southeast Europe... then, our troops have been training more closely in more places than ever. And that’s strengthening our
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Short-term fix for electricity bills leaves open questions for green transition strategy
Societymix - and more under certain critical conditions. In response, the government has announced... in the generation mix has increased over recent years as the country has invested in natural gas..., creating what some have called a “perfect storm” for European energy markets. While the government
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Could reforms have prevented Greece's economic collapse?
AgoraThe Greek economy’s collapse in the 2010-2013 period has become legendary. Greece had already been... competitiveness gains that Greece has been asked to implement. The wide time horizon gives... officials repeatedly questioning the country’s place in the euro. These formed the perfect storm
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From the National Energy and Climate Plan to COP26: What has Greek climate policy learned?
SocietyKyriakos Mitsotakis, address to UN COP26 summit, Glasgow, 1 November 2021. A lot has happened... a few months later. What - if anything - has been learned from recent developments as Greece moves... the plan. The Covid-19 pandemic, while forcing a temporary change in focus, has had a silver lining
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Fear and loathing in Athens: an ex-minister's take on troika reviews
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the inspectors’ return, a former minister has cast serious doubt on Greece’s negotiating... and if the government has found a way to settle more than 500 million euros of state debts to the Athens...-Administrative Reform Minister Antonis Manitakis has given insight into how Greece’s relationship
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Greek bank capital increases: A breakdown of what has been achieved
Economyhas a capital shortfall at 2.18 billion. On the flipside, Alpha and Piraeus’s capital needs stood at relatively low levels of 262 and 425 million respectively. On top of that, Alpha has already... to the state in 2009 as part of pillar I bonds. Piraeus will also repurchase its preference shares of 750
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Whither New Democracy?
Agora: This is more or less the sum total of what the New Democracy leadership race has produced so far..., what we see underneath is a party that has failed to understand why it failed miserably... of the four hopefuls, has set off around Greece in a camper van. It’s not so much the kind of battle
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Of symmetry and adjustments in the eurozone
Agoraof public finances. Since then, the prevailing narrative has been what I called the “Berlin View”, calling... the dominance of the Berlin View, has been asymmetrical. I would like to highlight three consequences..., forcefully defended by the German government, but also dominant in the EU institutions, has its theoretical
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Newsletter 171 -20/07/2018
to the spending reductions being revoked, the government may Opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis has... months. This would allow Tsipras to avoid implementing the unpopular measure before possible snap... on Sunday, May 26. However, there has been no clear indication from the lenders’ side
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