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  1. 21,717,120,000
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    21,717,120,000 – This, as we have just discovered, is the total amount of money that has left... of the euro crisis to the German taxpayer has been the subject of intense debate, especially... to acknowledge that on a net basis the German treasury has seen benefits during the crisis. Germany’s

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  2. Newsletter 2 - 07/11/2014

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    intact, the Greek government’s focus has shifted to completing the ongoing troika review. This would...”. Failure to achieve an agreement on debt relief would be a blow to the government, which has held... that would allow Greece to demarcate its EEZ, just as Cyprus has done. The Greek prime minister does

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  3. Newsletter 4 - 21/11/2014

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    with the troika. It has been reported that the troika expects this figure to be as high as 3.6 billion euros. So far, there has been no breakdown of how the troika has arrived at this figure, although one... at the end of 2013, the ministry has collected just 1.34 billion (or 2.1 percent) in the first nine

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  4. Newsletter 8 - 19/12/2014

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    and the opposition to agree to elect a president now in return for early elections next year has been... as possible. It is only PASOK that has differentiated its position slightly. Its leader, Deputy Prime Minister Evangelos Venizelos, has said he is open to ideas that would prevent snap elections

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  5. Will the real men of unity please stand up?
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    penchant for not wearing ties has been the cause of lightheartedness from the moment SYRIZA came to power.... Tsipras, after all, has answered numerous questions about his refusal to wear ties and has been able... Varoufakis’s tendency not to tuck in his shirt has also drawn numerous, mostly negative, comments

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  6. Newsletter 19 - 13/03/2015

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    and the European Stability Mechanism in Brussels. It is the first time that the ESM has had such a role.... The government has managed to survive another week within very tight conditions and reportedly repaid... in the Hellenic Financial Stability Facility (HFSF) after the ESM clarified that it has no legal

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  7. Greece: After a deal, work on a solution
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    the polls currently suggest that Syriza has a comfortable lead, the consequences of rejecting a deal... finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, alongside CDU rebels? The answer has to be no: reports... are labour market and pension reforms, and the pace of fiscal consolidation. Greece has liberalised

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  8. Amid fog of confusion, Greeks vote... again
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    . The parties have failed to make it clear what this election is about. SYRIZA has focussed on the new versus... up the system. New Democracy has made this campaign about the issue of trust and whether Greeks can put their faith in Alexis Tsipras again after his erratic time in office. Neither theme has really

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  9. Will Tsipras ride the waves in 2016?

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    an end to the Greek bailouts and the troika’s demands but has spent the last part of 2015 implementing... settled, the re-elected SYRIZA-led government has passed in Parliament measures that even... to private investors. On top of this, the government has also completed two privatisations launched

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  10. Greek pensions: The unsolvable equation
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    Greece back into political anxiety. Historically, the pension system has been a major bone of political... of funding pensions and benefits has been one of the key factors that contributed... is still roughly 800,000 short of what it was back in May 2010. This has made a huge dent in social

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