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Out with the old, in with the old
AgoraPerhaps more so than its promises about debt reduction, its ambitious targets for welfare spending and its abstract pledge to restore pride, what swung it for SYRIZA back in January 2015, when... on its current path, soon people will look back on SYRIZA’s greatest failure as being not its naivety
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Athens chided over asylum process but complex set of obstacles in way
PoliticsGreek Politicsto drag out their asylum applications as long as possible in the hope that they will not be sent back... than 600 people have been sent back since the EU-Turkey agreement was signed. It was not clear
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How Greece's political system failed to safeguard the largest investment in the country's history
AgoraMinister Antonis Samaras and his government started rolling back reforms following defeats in local... the first five months of SYRIZA administration, bank shares fell further by 31.5 percent on the back
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Countering a regressive and illiberal Europe
Agora, and ever-growing interdependence, would make it extremely costly to abandon or radically scale back...’ be enough? To answer this question, one needs to take a step back and pose a more fundamental question
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Newsletter 93 - 21/10/2016
, on the back of the end of the peak tourism season. It is worth noting that net hirings stood at 245,605... politician holds up the fact that other European countries welcomed his country back into the fold
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Lavrov visit yields little for Athens, which denies Iranian bank veto
PoliticsForeign PolicyYiannis Dragasakis and asked Athens to back Iran's plan to overcome difficulties of bank transactions... evidence to back up its claim that the Iranian bank was carrying out illicit activities. The Greek
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In autumn forecasts, EC sticks by GDP estimates but expects lower unemployment
Economyon the back of arrears clearance. The EC retained unchanged its previous forecast for a mild recession... in 2018, largely on the back of economic recovery, still subdued wage dynamics and impact from
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Piraeus Bank posts net profits of 31 mln in Q3, records improved asset quality trends
EconomyBankingsingle-digit NII growth going forward, on the back of lower deposit cost, positive impact on funding... south with the Q3 figure landing at 23.8 billion, down by 3.1 billion QoQ, on the back of an increase
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Budget primary surplus to Oct confirmed at 6.5 bln, 2.9 bln above revised target
EconomyMacroeconomydownward by 1.72 billion to 1.98 billion on the back of lower privatisation proceeds to 123 million... revealed tax revenues rose by 3.8 percent to 4.53 billion in October, largely on the back of soaring
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Eurogroup grants short-term debt relief but leaves Athens fretting over fiscal targets and IMF
EconomyProgramme; the waiver of the step-up interest rate margin amounting to 200 bps related to the debt buy-back... back on Athens to come up with solutions and to enter into politically damaging discussions. While
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