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  1. Scars for coalition, questions for SYRIZA after confidence vote
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    former coalition partner Democratic Left voted “present” rather than express support... unexpected decision to submit the 11th censure motion to Greek Parliament in the last 26 years than... society. Having apparently hit a ceiling of no more than 30 percent in opinion polls, SYRIZA

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  2. Stournaras in firing line for arguing Greeks can pay more taxes
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    of the Greek state rather than whether citizens are being taxed enough. Critics will argue that the onus is on the finance minister and his colleagues to address this, rather than to expect more from... times more than it did in 2009. One might also point to the fact that as a proportion of GDP, taxes

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  3. Support finely balanced as coalition enters make or break December

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    of homes with a value of less than 200,000 euros. It is a sign of the pressure the government feels... reminiscent of the Greek left than the technocratic finance minister and the coalition he serves... New Democracy 0.2 percentage points ahead of SYRIZA in a poll carried out less than two months

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  4. Two hurdles left for coalition this year before bigger challenges in 2014
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    be no bigger than 270,000 euros The Ministry also proposes that those with a household income of less than 15,000 per year should pay a monthly mortgage payment of 10 percent of their net monthly income... are presumably softer than those that would have been demanded by the troika, which wanted

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  5. Greece in 2014: The risks and opportunities of moving forward

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    in this respect (more than 27 per cent of total official lending to Greece) – the question many ask... in 2013. More than 70 billion euros were reached at the end of the year, an increase of over 20 billion... different time frame and set of investment components. In more ways than one Greece is at a cross roads

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  6. The Cyprus bailout is different, not only due to the bail-in
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    bailouts in more ways than just the bail-in of uninsured depositors at the country’s two major banks... is in the detail: privatisation is put in a very different framework than in Greece, avoiding... more expensive for Cypriot companies and individuals than other destinations since they also have

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  7. Unemployment hit new high of 27.8 pct in October, set to rise further

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    million after recording declines in August and September. Greece currently has less than 3.6 million people in employment to support more than 4.7 million unemployed and inactive, an unsustainable ratio... impacts more than half of those between 15 and 24 looking for a job with the rate standing at 57.9

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  8. Off the isles of Greece
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    Agora

    this into account, though, nothing can excuse treating the people who arrive here as anything less than... anything less than this is to demean this tragic event. Even so, this week’s events leave a feeling that we have surrendered much more than the 12 lives engulfed by the Aegean. Like Xerxes in Byron’s poem

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  9. One in two Greek households rely on pensions to make ends meet

    Society

    is out of work. However, even more alarmingly, only 9.8 percent (less than 200,000) receive unemployment... in their payments to the state, banks, social security funds or public utilities due to money shortages. More than... and 2013, which is higher than Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) figures suggest. Nine in 10

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  10. Troika inquiry: talk to the organ grinder, not the monkey

    Agora

    and narrow focus on the troika – a team of civil servants – rather than its political masters... after another. Self-fulfilling fear of “contagion” spread faster than blundering European authorities... dictating terms. The creditors needed an go-between and a scapegoat. (The reason for a troika, rather than

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