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Understanding the German approach towards Greece
Agoraovercome its economic depression. *Christian Odendahl is the chief economist at the Centre... of the euro crisis. However, many German economists, policy-makers, journalists and hence, voters... of a weak hand? Economists believe in the force of a good argument, both empirical and theoretical. Some
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Eurozone periphery condemned to low wages, demand, EC study suggests
EconomyA research paper by an economist at the European Commission’s Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN), which was initially published online this week by accident, withdrawn.... However, economist Jan in ‘t Veld is clear in his criticism on the euro area opting to simultaneously
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Greece's new finance minister lines up for a marathon (and several short sprints)
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe naming of economist Gikas Hardouvelis as Greece’s new finance minister took most observers by surprise but the big challenges awaiting him are no secret. Hardouvelis’s appointment caught many off... economist to take up the job at the Finance Ministry. The new finance minister cannot say he is unaware
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Stomach for the fight
Agorathat, the only major change was at the Finance Ministry, where economist Gikas Hardouvelis replaced..., though, about how someone like Hardouvelis, a US-educated economist used to moving to technocratic
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Tsipras hopes to muddle through, avoid internal clash for now
PoliticsGreek Politicsin 2013. SYRIZA continues to be split over how the government should progress. Marxist economist Yiannis... agreement. Fellow economist, and MP, Kostas Lapavitsas continues to publicly advocate a euro exit
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Varoufakis and his friendly fire
Agoraof a button,” as the economist described it. While some people have interpreted the ex-finance minister’s.... “Being a good economist doesn’t mean you are also a good politician,” Tsipras told public broadcaster
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Parliament will not probe 2015 bailout negotiations but issue unlikely to disappear
PoliticsGreek PoliticsFinance Minister Yanis Varoufakis and US economist James Galbraith, who served as his adviser... with the outspoken economist. Varoufakis, though, shows no signs of wanting to let sleeping dogs lie
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Newsletter 100 - 16/12/2016
came from a blogpost written by the IMF’s chief economist Maurice Obstfeld and the director of its...’s chief economist Maurice Obstfeld and the director of its European Department, Poul Thomsen, also
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Lenders provide words of support and warning regarding debt talks
PoliticsGreek Politicsor what kind of compromise could emerge. Speaking at an Economist conference in Frankfurt, Finance... footing.” This opinion was echoed by the ESM’s chief economist Rolf Strauch in a speech in Athens. Strauch
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Newsletter 121 - 02/06/2017
at an Economist conference in Frankfurt on Wednesday, Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos repeated his call... was echoed by the ESM’s chief economist Rolf Strauch in a speech in Athens. Strauch also argued
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