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Has external competitiveness been fixed in Greece?
Agorawill competitiveness be restored? It is important to try and measure how much progress has been made in restructuring the Greek economy. One approach is to compare how inflation in Greece has evolved relative....” It is called “real” because it compares inflation across countries. What matters here is how inflation
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The nightmare of our choice
Agoralauded our recovering economy or Handelsblatt marvelled at how the bad eurozone pupil had now turned good... Beyond the accident itself, there is the issue of how the aftermath was handled. The authorities... and - in the interest of all Greeks - understand how to prevent it happening again. Now, faced
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Greece in 2014: The risks and opportunities of moving forward
Agorafor the country, its political economy and how will its citizens fare? This inquiry is not only... issue concerns the question how it can be structured to be more supportive of a projected economic... in the euro area and by an OECD member state, the immediate issue is how much fiscal breathing space
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Troika returning to Greece but key decisions still months away
PoliticsGreek Politicsit would have to act on them. “In view of the importance of this flagship reform, we cannot see how..., it still leaves a number of key issues open. These include how the eurozone will fund Greece beyond... is how to cover Greece’s funding gap for this year, which is estimated to be 4.4 billion euros
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Greek politics in thrall to new faces and old ideas
Agora, it was difficult to see how Sakellaridis could connect with voters. However, SYRIZA is a different..., while the opposition has turned its back on whatever has been proposed. In short, that is how we have... on candidates whose strengths lie in their professional achievements rather than how many rungs up
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In the absence of light, darkness grows
Agoratheir post-election analysis to how SYRIZA had failed to increase its share of the vote from 2012. The opposition party focussed on how the governing partners had lost 11 percentage points in two... there should be those who long for authoritarian far-right rule. What is a surprise is how many
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Searching for electoral manifestos and overcoming voting obstacles in Greece
Agorathat a democracy has to offer: trust in the system. Moreover, given how polarized this electoral campaign is developing and how close the result could turn out to be, the eventuality of failing to have... investors in Greece. These include: How would a SYRIZA-led coalition government deal with foreign
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Newsletter 40 - 28/08/2015
number of variables and moving parts. For example: How will SYRIZA be affected by agreeing to the third bailout? What support will the new anti-bailout party Popular Unity attract and how badly.... But the same campaign strategy will not work again, given how discredited many of its advocates
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The positives and negatives that will decide Greece's elections
Agora: A possible low turnout and how many parties will make it into Parliament. In terms of the participation... that the party has been reeling from ever since. No matter how many times Tsipras has pleaded naivety, poor...-memorandum/anti-memorandum division behind and talk about where their country goes next, how
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On lockdown: The moments that will remain
Agorapassed. We may think about how we crossed to the opposite side of an empty street to put a safe...-bound grandchild. We may look back on how often we came across discarded surgical gloves and masks... to the tortoise stretching out on a sunlit patch of grass and how, briefly, we lived in its confined, still
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