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  1. Does new troika visit spell fresh drama for Greece? Maybe not

    Economy

    rather than war.” What are the factors preventing the release of Greece’s next loan tranche? Greece still... to find out if the government has found a way to settle more than 500 million euros of state debts... surplus of more than 2.8 billion euros. Shortly after the draft budget was produced, European

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  2. Newfound variety helps Greek winemakers enjoy exports boost

    Society

    . In 2012, exports reached more than 26,000 tons with a value of almost 40 million euros, making... importers of Greek goods overall, accounts for more than 40 percent of Greek strawberry exports... million euros in 2008 to 66.2 million euros last year. This improvement has been based on much more than

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  3. Greece in 2014: Where are we?
    Photo by Can Esenbel [www.mundanepleasure.com/]

    Agora

    . For example, how can the primary surplus be the standard bearer for "Grecovery" when more than 3... has widened to nearly 10 billion euros and less than half of the funds allocated for social... this rather than the much-vaunted export boost that the country's internal devaluation programme

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  4. A macroeconomic assessment of the Cypriot economy after the haircut
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    Agora

    Why has the Cypriot economy faced a smaller than anticipated dip for 2013? What is the relevance... and services. The speed of this process of internal devaluation has helped facilitate a smaller than... is a temporary rather than a permanent drop in income, and because they do not consider bank deposits

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  5. Building activity continues to crumble, falling by 20.7 pct in Feb

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    percent respectively, more than 10 percentage points greater than the country average. Building activity... declined by 24.2 percent, which was slightly lower than the country average. Attica’s share of total... that is three times higher than the GDP contraction over the same period. The evolution of housing loans

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

    alliance took just over 8 percent of the vote. It was slightly more than expected but PASOK still attracted about 300,000 voters fewer than it did in the national elections of June 2012. This, along... about SYRIZA dragging Greece back to the dark ages rather than about the government pulling the country

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  7. GSEE report stresses risks on employment and the pension system, outlines burden on wages

    Society

    firms are setting their prices following those of the competition rather than adjusting them... in Greece reached 21,930 euros, lower than that in Slovenia (24,472) and Cyprus (22,740... wages correspond to two thirds of the average of the 15 most advanced EU countries, stand lower than

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  8. Greece sets out plans for settling SME NPLs; mortgages to come

    Economy

    to small businesses (SMEs) and sole proprietors with annual turnovers of less than 2.5 million euros... from the new legislation, which could help them retain more than 350,000 jobs. Very small and small... of total bank claims against the firm. If this is less than 50 percent, than the amount of bank

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  9. Greek primary cash surplus up to 3.1 bln in September but state arrears also rise

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    billion) making up more than half of total, followed by extrabudgetary funds (1.15 billion). The state budget in particular, shows a material improvement by more than 3 billion YoY and 500 million month... mechanisms for 2013 in the larger healthcare provider (EOPYY) rather than a drastic cut in the creation

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  10. The rise of a "Spanish SYRIZA" transform’s country’s politics
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    Agora

    in a TV debate. As a result, Iglesias has 100,000 more followers on Twitter than the Spanish prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, and seven times more than the secretary general of the PSOE, the young Pedro... and is still larger than the sum of both parties’. But that is not what its rivals envy most: Podemos has

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