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  1. Who benefits from Greece’s return to the markets?
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    Agora

    that Pakistan returned to debt markets after an absence of more than seven years, the first Greek bond.... More than 85 percent of those pension funds, private equity firms, asset managers and hedge funds...-term than increasing sovereign debt finance. After the issuance of the five-year bond and the offered

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  2. Greece unveils MTFS seeing 4.2 bln primary surplus in 2014 but just under 2 bln fiscal gap in 2015-16
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    billion higher than the Economic Adjustment Program (EAP) target of 2.73 billion (1.5 percent of GDP...) more than offsetting the reduction of social security contributions (974 million). Direct taxes... also foresees that more than 2/3 of the GDP that has been wiped out from the domestic economy

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  3. In Spain, the best generation is in danger of becoming the lost generation
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    Agora

    than half of the Spanish youngsters that are looking for a job are currently unemployed. This brings.... Having applied unsuccessfully for four jobs (two of them were internships) in which more than 300 people... no more than 300 euros per month or even for free, with no hope of being hired in the short

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  4. Five things to take away from the first round of Greek local elections
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    and was elected from the first Sunday. The leftist party had a much larger presence in the regions than ever... dominant combination outside of Attica than the opposition party. SYRIZA will need backing of somewhere near 30 percent (and possibly more than the aggregate support the coalition parties receive

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  5. Greek central government debt inches down to 320.42 bln in Q1

    Economy

    domestically (1.85 billion) and Financial Support Mechanism (FSM) loans (1.3 billion) more than offsetting... stands at 15.84 years, which is slightly lower than the 16.02 years at the end of 2013. The respective figure for new borrowing in 2014 stands at 0.36 years and refers to T-Bills. More than three quarters

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  6. Greek politics in thrall to new faces and old ideas
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    Agora

    rather than divisive. His centrist party, To Potami (The River), posits a new proposition by relying on candidates whose strengths lie in their professional achievements rather than how many rungs up... will have to be built in the vision of its policy makers rather than according to the troika’s instruction

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  7. What kind of poll win does SYRIZA need to eye snap elections?
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    comments from the SYRIZA camp had suggested that the party would need to gain more than the combined... because Elia is not expected to gain more than 6 or 7 percent. However, there will be at least three other... vote rather than the first. In the last local elections of 2010, voter participation stood at almost

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  8. Jobs, hundreds of thousands of jobs
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    Agora

    by more than 20 percent. Greece’s labour market has been devastated, like no other in any modern crisis...) and packaging is expected to bring in 315,000 jobs, which is an increase of more than 70 percent from... considering that the premier does not have a good track record on employment pledges. He promised more than

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  9. Five things to watch for in today's elections in Greece
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    of more than 3 percentage points and support running in the high 20s would be considered a major... votes than the coalition parties combined and if there is a respectable turnout for the European... will struggle to get more than 7 percent of the vote. This could lead to turmoil within PASOK. A challenge

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  10. Greece's new finance minister lines up for a marathon (and several short sprints)

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    guard because his name was not among more than half a dozen that had been linked with the post over... of 4.19 billion euros (2.3 percent of GDP) in 2014, 0.8 percentage points higher than Economic... is at 1.27 million, which is t177 percent higher than March 2009. Youth unemployment remains

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