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  1. Newfound variety helps Greek winemakers enjoy exports boost

    Society

    One of the aims of Greece’s adjustment program has been to make the country more competitive, with a particular view towards boosting its exports. The main tool for this exercise has been the policy of internal devaluation, which has seen wages drop substantially. As a result, unit labour costs

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  2. It's not the distance; it's the load you carry
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    Agora

    It is natural to attempt to instill some hope when one addresses a nation that has been battered by six years of the deepest recession in world history and has endured four years of unprecedented austerity. Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras often says that Greece has covered 80 percent

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  3. Greece's ultimate sacrifice for stability
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    Agora

    of double agent, giving Golden Dawn MPs harmless morsels in order to glean information from them. One has..., the man charged with leading Greece out of the crisis, arrives at his policy decisions. He has surrounded himself with advisers with whom he has a longstanding relationship. There is nothing strange

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  4. Greece stuck in the long tunnel of political transition
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    Agora

    The staggered demise of New Democracy and PASOK, which has caused the disappearance of the centre in Greek politics, has forced the country into a political transition whose duration and outcome... elections and build a decisive lead over New Democracy. The leftist party has hit a ceiling in terms of its

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  5. Newsletter 9 - 30/12/2014

    Newsletters

    Greece heads to the polls Surveys suggest SYRIZA's lead is narrowing Greece has entered one... elections is in the balance. SYRIZA has been steadily ahead in opinion polls throughout 2014 and has... shown that the gap between SYRIZA and New Democracy is narrowing. Marc has been conducting rolling

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  6. Which way now, Mr Tsipras?
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    Agora

    After his haphazard cross-country drive across Europe over the last six months, Alexis Tsipras has arrived at the crossroads. He has already been forced by European lenders to make a huge compromise; now he has to decide whether he will be just as ruthless with dissenters in his own party. Tsipras

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  7. Why Tsipras might gamble on snap elections
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    Agora

    this idea baffling given that Tsipras has the support of three opposition parties (New Democracy... the option of snap polls this autumn. In effect, he has a small window of opportunity to capitalise... and with positive feedback from Eeurozone decision-makers at Friday’s Eurogroup, he still has a chance

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  8. Tsipras and the binary opposition
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    Agora

    a gold medal-winning balancing act on the political high beam. Tsipras has so far executed this routine with aplomb and this has allowed him to savour the more appealing side of his referendum victory..., a large part of the Greek public has gradually distanced itself from the country’s media

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  9. If it's stability you're looking for...
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    Agora

    The September 20 election, the second this year, has probably generated more questions about Greece’s political future and how stable it will be than it has answered. Repetition, it seems, has failed... has stripped SYRIZA of its most cantankerous lawmakers and made the party more homogeneous. The so

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  10. Newsletter 45 - 02/10/2015

    Newsletters

    ) with the budget primary surplus seen at 5.75 billion. However, as this year’s fiscal target has been After... that he is not anathema to the reformists and his long presence in the party means that he has a strong relationship with the party heavyweights. Mitsotakis, who has staged the most prominent campaign

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