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  1. Ladies and gentlemen, please fasten your seat belts
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    Agora

    the troika’s targets. Pensions and public sector salaries have been slashed by more than a third and social... billion euros at this stage of the Greek crisis is more than just a tall order. With no genuine... expressed concern about tax revenues and social security contributions being lower than expected

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  2. EU Task Force sees improvements in Greece, tends to damaged ties

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    view of the EU and 43 percent of the euro. These levels of scepticism are considerably higher than... in supporting Greece in its effort to increase its absorption of EU cohesion funds, which amount to more than... percent each year than it would have without the help from Brussels . This was the third highest rate

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  3. Direct taxes jump by 46 pct to help Sept. revenues beat target for third month in row

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    strongly in September more than offsetting another weak set of indirect taxes. After a stronger bottom... expenditure (2.0 billion) and - to a lesser extent – lower tax refunds (552 million) more than offsetting... targets) meeting annual targets, implying that an incremental amount of more than 2 billion should

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  4. Are politicians in Greece promoting reforms or social cannibalism?
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    Agora

    at just over 2,000. Rather than highlight its own failing in speeding up the disciplinary process... the municipal police monitored parking, the force generated more than enough revenues to cover its... that will eventually lead to no man being left standing. Rather than waste our time with other myths, the only

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  5. Scars for coalition, questions for SYRIZA after confidence vote
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    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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  6. Stournaras in firing line for arguing Greeks can pay more taxes
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    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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  7. Support finely balanced as coalition enters make or break December

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    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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  8. Two hurdles left for coalition this year before bigger challenges in 2014
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    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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  9. Greece in 2014: The risks and opportunities of moving forward

    Agora

    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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  10. The Cyprus bailout is different, not only due to the bail-in
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    Agora

    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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