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Fall in Greek building activity accelerates to 19 pct in October
EconomyMacroeconomyAuthority (ELSTAT). This was the ninth negative reading in the 10-month period. The one exception... of just four permits over last year’s figure of 43. Building activity is one of the sectors that has been
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The bad hand being dealt to Greece's next government
Agora25 elections produce one). This gives the next prime minister hardly any time in which to negotiate... the limit was raised during exceptional circumstances in 2012, this is one more issue that needs
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What next Greece?
Agora? Would it be managed or chaotic? One thing we can be sure about though. The scene is set...: On the one hand, providing further debt relief and new finance to Syriza could be necessary to keep
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Top SYRIZA officials hint at path to compromise with eurozone
PoliticsGreek Politicsnegotiations with the country’s lenders. Debt relief One of the central themes in SYRIZA’s campaign... the initial tension but there would also be another couple of short-term hurdles to overcome. One is how
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In decision to ally with Independent Greeks, Tsipras takes high risk option
PoliticsGreek Politics. One involved ex-Prime Minister George Papandreou's brother, who Kammenos falsely accused... in December that there was an attempt to buy the vote of one of its MPs during the presidential ballot
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Media pluralism in Greece at risk due to political links and concentration, study finds
Society. Greece was one of nine countries sampled in the report, entitled Monitoring Media Pluralism in Europe...”. The fact that the country has only one news agency also presents a high risk to media pluralism
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Newsletter 13 - 30/01/2015
different philosophy from the one that has governed the bailouts since 2010. It remains to be seen if Greece... mandate in mathematical terms. Among one of the many immediate challenges facing the new
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Greece and lenders with conceptual, as well as practical, gaps to bridge
PoliticsGreek Politics. The process will clearly be a difficult one, made only more complicated by SYRIZA’s tendency... years. One of the variable factors in this process, though, is how Greek banks will be affected
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After Schaeuble talks, Greek gov't still focussed on ditching existing bailout
PoliticsGreek Politics(and the one that will affect developments over the next few weeks) is whether to extend further... in the Eurogroup, which is due to meet on Monday, February 16, (there have been reports of an extraordinary one
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S&P acts in wake of ECB decision and downgrades Greek rating to B-
EconomyS&P lowered on Friday evening its long-term rating on Greece by one notch to ‘B-‘ from ‘B’, while it maintained the CreditWatch negative, which was placed on January 28. The rating action came one month earlier than the scheduled rating review on March 13 and is justified, according to S&P
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