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Newsletter 363 - 16/12/2022
in May, before school leavers’ have to sit their university entrance exams. The one major risk... to attack one of its election rivals, and the party that has done most to draw support away from... billion euros. If there is one positive side-effect of the inflation rates, it is the rise in nominal
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Athens hopeful of progress on sea delimitation differences with Albania after FM visit
PoliticsForeign Policythe two countries is clearly stated in Albania’s negotiating framework with the EU. Therefore, Tirana one... serve the European Idea on the one hand, while not allowing the manifestation of revisionism..., and this was one of the issues that topped the Greek foreign minister’s talks with his counterparts in Belgrade
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Newsletter 365 - 13/01/2023
forward by one month, from May 1 to April 1, the implementation of the next increase to the minimum wage... the decision taken by Mitsotakis. One of those could be the extent to which the seemingly constant stream... Bank. The Greek government sees HFSF’s exit from the Greek banking system as one more sign that Greece
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Military chief caught in wiretapping affair's sights, prompting strong ND response
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDemocracy is the one undermining the armed forces, accusing the government of giving EYP orders... or one based on blackmail. Sunday’s spat came just 24 hours before the Council for Foreign Affairs... enemies. One of the common responses to claims about the surveillance scandal from the conservative camp
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ND's lead narrows but PM's election hopes still alive
PoliticsGreek Politicsappears to have built. One only needs to recall the way that government ministers who attended... expectations, 12 pct feel it is in line with what they expected, while 31 pct believe it is worse. Forty-one... a consistent theme since the last elections and is one of the main reasons that ND is still fairly
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Independent watchdog in eye of storm as parties clash over surveillance probe
PoliticsGreek Politicsinto the wiretapping affair confirmed that six public figures, one minister and five high-ranking military personnel, had been spied on. If this proves accurate, it would strike at one of the government’s... his party’s heavy election defeat in 2019. Sixty-one pct of centrist voters say they would be willing
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Greece offers Turkey earthquake support, recalling 1999 thaw in relations
PoliticsForeign Policysince two earthquakes that took place in between one month’s time, changed in a definitive moment..., when one of the two countries is affected by a natural disaster, diplomatic sources underline... leadership in Turkey is quite different to the one in place in 1999. Nevertheless, diplomatic sources
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Survey highlights households struggling with cost of living, delivers worst outlook since 2019
Economyand now is at 52.4 pct. Specifically, one in five said that their incomes run out between the 16th... cuts to make ends meet, although one in four said that they are not facing any major difficulties... one in three cuts spending in travel. The energy crisis is prominent, as almost 74 pct now must
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Moment of reckoning for SYRIZA as firebrand MP threatened with deselection
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe falling out between SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras and one of his party’s most high-profile MPs... of at least one systemic bank. The post was condemned by the Greek journalists’ union and the high... to more moderate centrist voters. The departure of Polakis, who was one of the more prominent opponents
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Does the EU Commission suffer from optimism bias? (Part 2)
Agoraevaluation of such outlooks, before these are printed and distributed? At the least, one would propose... it is not. Making optimistic scenarios is more common than you may think. One of the authors of these blogs... that the true baseline sits several degrees below the indicated one. We are all human and we all want
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