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Greece's new finance minister lines up for a marathon (and several short sprints)
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe naming of economist Gikas Hardouvelis as Greece’s new finance minister took most observers by surprise but the big challenges awaiting him are no secret. Hardouvelis’s appointment caught many off guard because his name was not among more than half a dozen that had been linked with the post over
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Electricity strike nipped in bud, leaving political loose ends
PoliticsGreek Politics. There is already and uneasiness in the party after it took just 8 percent of the vote in the European
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DIMAR imploding and leaving gap in Greek center left
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDemocratic Left (DIMAR), once the junior partner in a three-party governing coalition, is in danger of complete collapse after losing two more MPs, who took parting shots at its leader Fotis Kouvelis, on Thursday. DIMAR's decision to quit the government in June 2013, a year after joining
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In bid to polish SYRIZA's image, Tsipras visits Mount Athos monks
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe late Communist Party general secretary Harilaos Florakis took a trip to the secluded monasteries
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The challenge in Greece: Funding an emerging economic recovery
Agorawhere we have come from and how long it took until the “promised land” was finally reached again
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Greeks' wages fell more than 10 pct in 2013, IKA data shows
Societya substantially higher average wage than women. While men earned 1,364.63 euros, women took home 1,134.99
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Samaras seeks late summer boost from talks with troika in Paris
PoliticsGreek Politicsin September to conduct the fifth review of the Greek adjustment programme. This took away a lot
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Greek primary cash surplus widens to 3.2 bln in 7-month
EconomyMacroeconomyin July - and redemptions of 11.2 billion, of which 9.4 billion took place in May. The amount of short
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PASOK marks 40th anniversary by baring its split personality
PoliticsGreek Politicssupporters in his speech at PASOK’s event. PASOK later apologised and took down a comment on the party’s
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Run this way: The recurring pattern of Greek leaders
Agorajust before he took power and the damage this did to the economy he had to manage. Understandably
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