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Tsipras is at his strongest, but for how long?
Agorapredicted anywhere near a 7.4 percentage point win, which raises a new set of questions about... responsibility” for the murder of anti-fascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas. Many Greeks decided there was no point..., a process that has repeatedly stretched Greek governments to breaking point in previous years. This makes
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Newsletter 45 - 02/10/2015
than 15 November”. Although current estimates point to a lower level of official sector... or centre-right of the political spectrum. According to Public Issue, there was a 9.2 point increase... to the role that its EU partners believe it should fulfil as a point of entry. The European Commission
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Crumbling Greek pension system threatens big fiscal gap, budget derailment
Economykey figures for each pension fund that point to a bleak outlook for the social security sector... grants supplementary pensions and the latest figures point to 1.09 million pensions, with a monthly... funds and ETEA point to 142,644 pending main pensions and 129,885 pending supplementary pensions
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Newsletter 74 - 20/05/2016
the point that Tsipras had opposed privatisations in opposition but that he is now creating a sell.... In point of fact, the situation in Greece is even more dramatic. The so-called kokkina daneia (literally... loan defaulters. Various estimates point to about 20 percent or even more than 30 percent
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Uncomfortable parallels: The Greek and British referendums
Agora) is a worse place now than it was at some foggy point in the past where we achieved peak Blighty.” Last year... and doing away with the annoying details of reality, what the experts says and what the numbers point... – of the myths that politicians have only been too happy to allow to flourish because at some point it served
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Newsletter 96 - 18/11/2016
figures for the eight months up to August still point to a drop of 7.9 percent in building permits... the limits of austerity demands on Greece. What is rather uncertain at this point is the amount... crisis during the electoral campaign. But Trump did point out in July 2015 in an interview with Fox
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Newsletter 100 - 16/12/2016
that it is not willing to countenance the idea of adopting further measures to close the 2 percentage point fiscal gap... in Berlin on Friday with the impression that the IMF’s demands for another 2 percentage point... in the last three months, the aggregate figure for the first nine months of the year continues to point
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Why can't Greece be more like Cyprus?
Agora, as if to drive this point home and rub salt into the wounds of the Greek entrepreneur. Taxes Let’s stick... for a better balance over the years but we’ve arrived at a point now where more than 80 percent of public... inside and outside of parliament dwindle to the point that their survival is in question. Against
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What Dijsselbloem didn't say
Agorawere met and the countries exited the bailouts. Greece is yet to reach this point but each step..., there is no need to cultivate the feeling that someone is getting a free ride. Wasteful south? The other point... it. As economists Alexandr Hobza and Stefan Zeugner point out in a 2014 European Commission paper they wrote
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Don't celebrate a French reconnection for EU just yet
Agorabut this misses the point that extremists do not necessarily want to be in power when they can... unemployment has fallen to the lowest point in nine years. This is encouraging but it should not make us... in France, will prove a turning point for European politics and the EU as a whole. The evidence suggests
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